mannyskid
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A couple months ago, I got wind of the new CTI motor, the Pro98-6G N5600 White Thunder. After I saw Gary T's awesome flight with his F200, I knew I needed to fly one for myself. I picked one up from Wildman, but quickly realized I needed a rocket to fly it in. I had an Ultimate Darkstar that had been in the box since black saturday two and a half years ago. I built it in a week before the QCRS June launch; however, the weather was not in my favor. Since I didn't have time to finish the rocket I had planned to fly at the Kloudbuster's july launch and I had already promised a friend that we would drive down (he was to attempt his level 1), I figured I would bring this bad boy out. I glued to motor on Thursday night with the help of my dad. This one was a little different as I was told I needed to use a lot of glue. I had glued two pro98-6GXL motors before, but didn't use nearly as much glue as I did on this one. I used about 3 Oz. of gorilla glue in total. Prep was kind of a hassle with this fat rocket, but I had it on the pad by mid afternoon on Saturday (thanks to ClayD for helping me carry it to the pad). I called the rocket "Turducken", which is a chicken stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey. Bob interpreted it as being german for "Manny built this, everybody get back". The motor came instantly to pressure and got the 75 Lb rocket up in a hurry! The rocket flew arrow straight for the short burn. By the time the rocket had arced over, we noticed something strange, a huge yellow dot in the sky, the 10' main parachute had come out. I got in my car and started driving. I could see it the whole way and got within 100 yards by the time it touched down over 5 miles away. It missed the power lines by only a couple feet. The wind was blowing a bit by the time it landed and decided to take my rocket for a little ride across 60th street. I had to wrestle the parachute to get it down and stop my rocket from blowing across the field. An interesting, but successful flight in my book, and also my first successful N motor flight. The missile works RRC3 was beeping out 14,280', a bit lower than I expected but still respectable for such a big rocket. I'll download and post the Raven data file tonight. Thanks for loaning the case for this flight Gus, it has been cleaned and will be returned to you this Sunday.
Manny
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