I didn't take enough pictures to justify a separate thread, so it looks like I'm hijacking yours!
I got to the field at 1:30 AM on Saturday morning, slept for about 4 hours then set up my unistrut tower in preparation for the day's festivities.
There were lots of cool project flying, but one of my favorite was my buddy John Clifton's rocket he called "Purple People Eater", he actually rolled this O powered monstrosity to the pad. Too bad it suffered a motor detonation on the pad.
After that, I had promised Chuck Haskin that I would play the part of "Chuck's little helper" for the day, or in this case "taller helper". He flew his 6" diameter upscale ARCAS on another one of his famous N3000 Crazy Cracker White motors. Awesome flight Chuck, and congrats on flying a successful N in Kansas, I only beat you to it by 2 months. :wink:
*Beep Beep Boop Boop* *crescendoing beep* Prof pic it bro...
After an awesome flight, and quick recovery it was time to head out and load Judy and Jackson Lubin's P motor rocket on my launch trailer. The thing took about 3 hours to assemble and load. I wanted to take a picture with it as it was the biggest rocket ever flown off of my trailer, until Crazy Jim had to step in and photo bomb me. I was wondering why everyone was giggling.
And a very nice looking rocket and an even nicer looking family ready to push the button. Sadly, the rocket suffered a motor issue on the pad, I'll let them fill in with the rest of the details.
Late that night I was recruited by Prophecy and A5tr0 An0n to prep Steve's N6000 rocket for a flight on Sunday morning. High solids, hot propellant running at very high pressure in a fiberglass motor case what could go wrong?
Hmmmm, that isn't supposed to be outside of the rocket lying in the middle of a field. The rocket had a fantastic boost, but after burnout the rocket vanished and a loud anomaly could be heard.
Gus showed up on Sunday morning with an O3400 to abuse the sky with. It was an awesome flight to 24k' and M1.7 with a straightforward recovery. Very nice flight Gus!
This was a fantastic event and one of the more memorable/fun events I've been to. Thanks to Kloudbusters for putting on yet another awesome launch!
Manny