My L3 Portly Parrot Build Package

[secretagent]

I am pleased to report that I flew my "Portly Parrot" yesterday to ~12,600 AGL, successfully completing my NAR L3 certification flight. It was a long journey that I've documented well (excessively?) in this build package: Bodzin L3 Certification Package

Special thanks to Steve Lubliner (my L3CC) and James Cramton (who was there for every one of my certification flights); without their mentoring this never would have been possible.

 

[pugachu]

Great job!

Did you fly it at the new SARA location? I wanted to go, but the kids had a tournament yesterday.

Congrats!

 

[loopy]

Congratulations!

 

[bad_idea]

Congrats!

 

[David_Stack]

Congratulations on the accomplishment!

Nice to see mention of James Cramton (Rocketry Works) as well...

 

[secretagent]

Congratulations on the accomplishment!

Nice to see mention of James Cramton (Rocketry Works) as well...

He launched and ran the whole Agua Blanca event. It's nice to watch him in his element.

 

[Fattbank64]

Congratulations!

 

[kjhambrick]

Congratulations !

That is beautiful, thick white smoke in your launch pic.

I could not open your build doc on my phone.

What motor did you fly ?

Thanks

-- kjh

 

[secretagent]

I could not open your build doc on my phone.

What motor did you fly ?

Yeah, I kept very hi-res photos so that people could see the detail of what I did, but it makes for a couple-hundred-megabyte-sized PDF.

The motor was an AT M1350 DMS..

 

[terryg]

Congratulations! I thought about attending, but it did not work out timeing wise this time.
How is recovery at the new site?
Maybe there will another launch scheduled before the extreme heat sets in!

 

[secretagent]

How is recovery at the new site?

Recovery was fine, although we did manage to land on the other side of a mountain about 3,000' away. We drove to 1,800', and probably could have gotten closer to 500' if we'd wanted to. It was a nice day so the hike was fine.

Side note: I used this beeper and we could hear the rocket (250' away) before we spotted it (150').

Maybe there will another launch scheduled before the extreme heat sets in!

James sent out a note that the next Agua Blanca launch probably won't be until fall. We have our last SSS launch this weekend before the heat, so come to that!