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rstaff3 said:
The FCC call him and asks if he needs a waiver. They all laugh because he don't need no steenkin' waiver.
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Actually, it's the FAA and the *real* story is that, when the local airport wants to get another plane in the air that may fly over his field, the FAA calls HIM for a waiver...

And for Carl McLawhorn... "Ready to build" kits assemble themselves for him... LOL
 
jflis said:
Actually, it's the FAA and the *real* story is that, when the local airport wants to get another plane in the air that may fly over his field, the FAA calls HIM for a waiver...

And for Carl McLawhorn... "Ready to build" kits assemble themselves for him... LOL
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Touche...I shouldn't post when I'm giggling :shock:
 
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He once wore a dress to a Crazy Jim dragrace, and he looked good.
 
He recieves free lifetime memberships in NAR, TRA ,CAR.

Clubs he flies with allow him to drink his Dos Equis and smoke his cigars while prepping his rockets.
 
He offered to hold down the launch pad of Steve Eves Saturn V for the pure thrill of it.:y: Then he decided ride in it.He is the most interesting man in the world!!
 
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He don't need no stinkin' sandpaper either. A touch of his hand smooths out the grain.
 
His drouges deploy precisely at apogee, His mains deploy at 750' exactly, His rockets land squarely at his feet and he's never used an altimeter.

Trees uproot themselves and move aside for his rockets.

All forms of propellant rain sparks for him.
 
If one of his rockets do pop a fin, it promptly re-alligns, and re-attatches itself.

He uses an Estes controller to ignite the elusive Z motor.

The clouds part, to let his rockets pass by.

The Sun moves, as to not blind him while watching his flights.
 
He can use any controller that he wants with Q2G2 igniters and they never prematurely fire.

He assembles RMS motors faster than ProXX motors.

His Farside-X boosts fine with current production 18mm booster motors, but he prefers to use a MicromaxxII NE in the first stage.

His 1/8A Heli duration flights are timed with a calendar.

When he showed a sample of his CF layups to Shadow Composites, they wept.

His EX projects are too large for BALLS. The Russian Space Agency pays him to launch them from Baikonur.

At the age of 3, he was the sole member of the now-defunct NAR 1/2A Division.

He flew the same RCRG at NARAM 50, 51 and 52. He is thinking about finally bringing it down for a landing at NARAM 53.
 
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He made his Level 1, 2 and 3 certification flights on the same day - in reverse order.
 
He never says: “This should be in the FAQ”

At the age of 2, he completed his NARTREK Gold level.

At the age of 4 he had completed all advanced NARTREK Achievement levels.

At the age of 15 he received his first NAR “Lifetime Achievement Award”

He tests the continuity of his igniters by placing the leads across his beard.

His rockets never get hangar rash.

He receives his Semroc shipments before he orders them; yes this is technically true for many people, however his arrive 1 year before he orders them.

For small field cub scout demo launches, he likes to fly his ‘old faithful’ 3 stager: full stack Comanchee to full stack Farside X to sustainer Omega (D12-0, E9-8) with a Cineroc payload.

Using the Barrowman equations, he can calculate the CG of a full stack space shuttle within 4.2 seconds - in his head.

The most interesting rocketeer in the world – On launch site dimensions: “Football fields and baseball diamonds work great!”
 
Space Ranger said:
The most interesting rocketeer in the world – On launch site dimensions: “Football fields and baseball diamonds work great!”
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Thank you! Those are the larger fields or clearings in my local area where I happen to do the vast majority of my launches.
 
The Cassini Mission recently photographed one of his bowling balls.

He wants to be on the first manned mission to an asteroid - so that he can retrieve his egg lofter.
 
NAR paid him to become a life time member.

He let Peter Alway take all the credit for ROTW and the supplements despite researching and ghost writing it himself.

He answers Trip Barber's TARC questions on the NARTARC yahoo group.

;)
 
The BATFE approved his humidor for storing FFFFG

He lights his cigars under exhaust flames at the away cell

He has RSO'd at launches he's never attended

He doesn't always burn APCP but when he does he prefers White Lightning;)
 
He convinced NASA to retire the shuttles because he wanted to add them to his collection.
 
He's got 24 perfect pictures out of an Astrocam on one roll of 24 exposure film
 
One of his boost gliders once strayed into NASA airspace during a shuttle launch and caused an unplanned hold while they waited for it to clear.



NASA apologized for the inconvenience and offered to assist with his recovery efforts.
 

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