I WON! :y:
I may reveal my secret someday..... but not yet.
Ok yet, foiled fins with heavy bevels. The 2nd place was 1200ft. below me.
Gone Bananas is the one dead center all by itself clear of both banks.
It's the one that goes straight as an arrow for the full flight duration on the video.
Landed 2.7 miles according to GPS as the crow flies from the pads.
Both altimeters were with in 40 ft of each other.
There was a left bank with 5 a right bank with 6 on the left
. 2 on the away cells and 1 off to the rear.
I don't want to hear any more crap about rail buttons and what they can handle. I FLEW MINE ON 10 10 BUTTONS and a 8 ft rail with 60-65 lb....12ft rocket! Although I must admit only the stainless screws and a tiny section of button was left. The sides hitting the rail were burned off.
I've done this before on less potent motors with complete success.
Actually 3 of them literally stripped the fins of & shredded.
2 were disqualified:cry: before we started, for altering the Ultimate Wildman kit.
1 with clipped fins .
1 that was shortened a 18 inches.
They both were allowed to fly , but with no chance of winning the prize.
CTI found the speed of G-12 with their N-5800. The average builder will have to amp up their construction skills!
2 catoed.... due to a now known failure, which will be documented .." for sure"..in the next few days.
So don't worry it won't happen again.
Chris Palmers catoed and burned.
Greg Trovilion catoed.
Diane Dorn shredded all 3 fins.
Tim Lehr shredded all 3 fins.
I think there was 1 more shred.
Don't have data on the rest.
Gus got the up part right but during main deploy something went wrong & the shock cord sheared. The booster then stabilized at 1000 ft, came in ballistic & buried itself 3ft deep. The payload...Av-bay NC came down under main and was fine.
All the above had to "walk the runway in the dress" with the exception of Gus. He did not attend the banquet.
Jeroen of CTI notoriety was on hand to verify each fliers altitude & oversee the motor build party for all 14 motors the night before at Tim's.
It was fastest recovery for me of a rocket and altitude of this kind .
Darryl and I recovered both our rockets & were back at the flight line in under 30 minutes.
I was only 150ft of of Rt 26. He was on the other side of the road.
So Darryl could not recover any data. Both alts were not beeping at recovery and no one had a flight viewer for his R-das or Arts.
As a side note: My first day "on the job" and I Tapptizzed 3 L-3 flights!
Congrats guys!
I am now a "made man" & full blown member of the Chicago Rocket Mafia, as of today.
Thank You's go out to Tim Lehr and CTI for making this event [drag race] possible. Much fun was had by all & I'm sure more reports will be filling in my blanks.... will come in over the next few days.
Also want to shout out for Loki and all the motors he supplied for the raffle. I'm flying a big 38mm I won tomorrow.
Thanks again to Tim. My prize is any re-load for the 6XL case at 50 % off!
