What's your best altitude recored (as of October 2014)

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What's the highest you've flown to date?

  • <1K

  • 1000'-1999'

  • 2000'-2999'

  • 3000'-3999'

  • 4000'-4999'

  • 5000'-5999'

  • 6000'-6999'

  • 7000'-7999'

  • 8000'-8999'

  • 9000'-9999'

  • >10K

  • >15K

  • >20K

  • >50K

  • Other (specify in thread)

Results are only viewable after voting.
About 2200 feet in my Darkstar Jr on an I357. That was highest recorded.


Highest estimate is about 3500 feet for my LOC Onyx on an H399 (my battery came out under 50+ G's... so no data).
 
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Recovered - around 3000 ft. With my aerotech arrow on a G64.
Lost- A scratch built MD two stage that flew on two E's to a calculated 4200 ft.
 
4667 on a Darkstar Jr. with an I540.


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Highest recorded: Darkstar lite DD on an H268R to 2152 ft. Overshot sims by 200, and was higher than the I200W to 2098 ft. Shapeshifter Mini on a G77R probably got pretty close to that (no altimeter). Minimum Diameter D12 to E12 would've been in that range too, maybe even a bit higher, (especially if it hadn't had as much of an angle off the rod as it did) but no altimeter data on that one.
 
4" min diameter on a N1000 = 34K

Looking to break that next year in a 6" min diameter on a "Q" > projected 80K + @ Balls of course.
 
Funny.. I started this poll yet forgot to vote.

My best altitude to date is 4027' in my Shape Shifter Jr. flying on a CTI I255.
 
12,500 (GPS) with a "new" Wildman 3" on a CTI K740 Cstar
 
3611ft Madcow Patriot CTI J316 Pink, Looking to break 4k with my Archer and possibly 6k with my Frenzy at Red Glare
 
26,750' AT M-650 in short minimum diameter bird at LDRS 27.

Photo courtesy of Neil McGilvray/Rockets Magazine.
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Justin
 
41,880' on August 2nd at Aeronaut in the Black Rock desert. Rocket was a 3" fiberglass rocket flying on a CTI M2245 Imax.

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Photo by Todd Harrison

Video by Alex Laraway
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Feb. 9th, 2013: ARR Blue Phenix 4" on a K375-NW all the way to 7,932' at the PMW field near Talladega, AL.

A year later, the same rocket & motor was good for 7,904' at the GRITS Winternationals launch. I was *really* hoping to break 8,000 on that one.
 
Getting there....
My highest is actually: 14,707 ft
Held by my 4.1" rocket ( Blue Falcon) on a 4 grain 76 mm EX motor of mine.
at URRF 1 last year.
I hope to break it at LDRS if all goes well.
On a 5 grain 76 mm, same propellant but tweaked slightly.

JD
 
Highest: 20,007 with my 54 MD. Hoping to break 40 this year.

Alex
 
Wildman 3" Darkstar on a 54-2000 research motor at Argonia! 7128'
 
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11,761' - Loki L-1400 in a kit-bashed 3" Darkstar.

Have two rockets ready to go that are simmed to bust 15,000' - just waiting for the right time and place.

s6
 
10250.

Current Tripoli I record. Minimum diameter I59 that simmed to 15k but weathercocked and burned too quickly.
 

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