Last night bit into something and had severe tooth pain, that was at midnight I haven't slept, lol.
Got out of bed this morning(wrote this last night forgot to post) and debated going to URRG in NY. But went for my L1 cert flight after leaving a little late about 9am, We got there at noon, I setup. It was a freak flight about 3pm or so, the motor ejected about 2.5 seconds after ignition. I watched the video a few times and thought maybe the NC came out, it didn't. But I had help with drilling the ejection delay in the Aerotech H135W-14A(I got from the best guy named Ted at OneBadHawk.com.), from Larry W.(URRG President), and Dan Michaels for talking to me afterwards a bit.
I'm really impressed the only damage from this was a minor zipper which was tolerable as it can and could have flown again. So, after 33 years of rockets, I'm finally a L1. I said in May within a year I want to have that L1 attempt, so I'm very happy with this outcome. Honestly though, I kind of felt like I didn't deserve it. But after watching the video and seeing it stay together, I earned that much.
I definitely want to have fun with L1. But my goal was if I got certified L1, was L2 by next year this time but probably Spring 2025. I'm gonna build quite a few other 29mm/38mm L1's over the winter. And have fun too next year with that. I definitely want to build a few DD, L1 rockets before my L2. I want that knowledge even though it isn't required of an L2 flight. Now this tooth...
I'll add a YouTube link in a bit. Oh the igniter that came with was a dud, so had to get another one from Larry. Thank you Larry!!!
Slowed and zoomed the video too, the last 2 pictures you can see the ejection charge go off about 2 seconds in.