No snow,
After much panic, and lots of good advice from folks here I have everything ready to go for tomorrow. I'm making the 2 hr treck soith to fly with the HOTROCs group for the first time. I will also be attempting my L1 cert there on my newly nose weighted scratch build "Fav'rit 2 B" or if the RSO disapproves or the first try fails, I will be using my newly finished (sans vinyl) Cherokee-I for the attempt. Plan on letting the Estes Nike Smoke off its chain for a G-80 ride since they have an immense farm field to land on. Got a nice assortment of low power for the boys also.
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Lets hope they look similar tomorrow this time.
Got to fly with the HOTROCs folks today on a beautiful day and an insanely perfect field...freshly plowed, soft, flat farmy goodness. Anyhow, flew "Fav'rit 2 B" on an H242T to 1209 ft. Clean altimeter controlled deploy at apogee with audible motor backup +2 sec. I set it up single deploy since it wasn't going too high. It flirted with the only obstruction on the field, power lines, but missed by 50+ ft. Landing was in soft dirt, and there was no damage...maybe I'll find a scrape after I clean it, but no complaints.
Huge thanks to Robert Vanover for witnessing the attempt, and unbenounst to me was beautifully photographic the flight. He gave me permission to share the pics he took.
The last pic is pf my recovery crew basking in the glow of a successful flight. OK, they were playing in the dirt, but I got my version.
Incidentally the little guy, Casey, named the rocket and chose the paint scheme when he was 2. "Fav'rit 2 B" was the spelling we came up with for his vernacular meaning "that is my favorite"
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The only downside, I got so excited I forgot to use sunscreen...oh the burning.
Congrats on the cert!!! Sounds like it was a beautiful flight!
What altimeter were you using?
Congradulations!!!
Nate
Got these and some misc parts delivered yesterday. The Pigasus is for my daughter. The altimeter is for my son's science project.
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