NXRS was GREAT! Thanks OROC!
Will be interesting to see the numbers from this one.
Seemed to break attendance records based on how packed the flight line was.
Hope somebody posts some flyover drone footage.
We flew only 3 EX motors: a 98mm N plus a 75mm M and L.
All the motors worked great. All flights were perfect.
The only casualty is that Gabe did lose the NC his Bad Bouy - but boy that thing was BAD!!! The I-435 pushed it to about 5k instantly!
A little too much BP for a deployment charge snapped the strap to the NC and we couldn't find it.
His new "Almost MD" rocket - which is built from a pile of scrounged parts as it's 4.5" diameter makes finding parts difficult - got quite the ride from my 100% N-4222 to a about 32k AGL.
I think that was the largest motor flown and might be the highest flight also for the weekend....we'll see what others report.
A picture of his takeoff is at the end - love it when the flame length matches the rocket - a 12' tall rocket!
Clearly, the nest step for this rocket is a visit to the paint booth.
Gabe's night rocket was a cool flight - a 4" kit bash with two blinking 40W LED's. He flew that Saturday at about 9:45PM on a L-900DM. Bitchin flight to about 12k AGL but landing way out in the sage despite a streamer for a drogue. We walked ~ 4 miles in the dark to get that one back. We didn't get back to camp until almost midnight. Would have been nice to spend some time around the campfire , but we were whipped after that hike.
Mike didn't fly as he was checking out some new radio gear - our camp looked like a CIA outpost! Unfortunately the tracking system we really wanted to test failed which was the bummer for the weekend. But Mike had fun talking radios with lots of people who wandered by to see what was in the trailer.
I had to blow out early Sunday - my daughter and I had tickets to Roger Waters in Portland that night.
Good Times!