What rocket (HPR or LPR) have you flown the most?

[NTP2]

It has to be the same so flying getting treed the building another should not count. (But feel free to share those along side).

I’ll start with my NCR lance delta.

 

[lakeroadster]

As a kid in the 60's.. Estes Alpha.​

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As a BAR: My MPR Cygnus Probe Ship.​

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[Fishhead]

The Super Snooper was one of my first attempts at an upscale back in 2001. I treed the first one and rushed to rebuild it for my first NARAM in 2001. Unfortunately, since I used a then available Estes Fat Boy as the basis for the upscale, I kept the 18mm motor mount. I've since done the rest of the Goonies, all with more than 18mm power. I've made 39 flights with this one, but none since 2020.

 

[TheTank]

4" T-Loc. 57 flights and counting.

 

[Back_at_it]

Scratch build I call Butt Ugly. Quickly approaching it's 100th flight. I'd have to look the log but I think I'm up to 95 flights so far. It's a BT55 with tube with a 24mm mount. It's been fixed a dozen times and repainted at least three times. All of the stripes and that silly diamond on the side are there to hide repairs. I will probably retire it after it's 100th flight.

 

[BEC]

I have one Nova Payloader that did 126 flights before losing part of a fin on a big field (where it could not be found). I may yet cut a new fin for that model and fly it some more. The next most-experienced Nova Payloader went to just over 100 and another retired at 75 flights after having a few D10s cause some serious internal charring, making it quite soft just above the motor mount. I have an Alpha with 106 flights and counting....

Added: Here's the first-mentioned Nova Payloader at liftoff on flight #116 (frame grab from video). It went to 1000 feet even on a D16-6FJ on that flight:


FlightSketch flight data for that flight here: https://flightsketch.com/flights/4036/ T

his is the last flight of the model that I appear to have a liftoff picture of.

 

[Wayco]

My Darkstar Extreme is my L3 Certification rocket. Here are it's flights:

1. 8-24-14 M1297 to 13,124 ft. Airfest Argonia, Kansas
2. 10-25-14 M1780 to 13,625 ft. Octoberfest Jean, NV
3. 8-1-15 M1550 to 14,587 ft. Hellfire Bonneville Salt flats, Utah
4. 10-17-15 M1550 to 13,833 ft. Superstition Spacemodeling Society G. Harry Stein Memorial AZ.
5. 6-10-16 M1550 to 14,554 ft. LDRS ROC Lucerne, CA.
6. 8-6-16 M1550 to 14,005 ft. Hellfire on the Bonneville Salt flats, Utah
7. 3-4-17 M1550 to 13,188 ft. Holtville Havoc, CA. TRASD
8. 9-3-17 L1250 to 11,671 ft. Airfest Argonia, Kansas
9. 3-3-18 M1550 to 14,500 ft. Holtville Havoc, CA. TRASD
10. 5-17-18 M1550 to 14,559 ft. LDRS Tripoli Central Calif.
11. 9-1-18 M1805 to 14,323 ft. Airfest Argonia, KS. 76/6000 casing with "Not Your Wimpy Red" propellant.
12. 3-1-19 L1720 to 10,075 ft. Holtville, Calif. TRASD
13. 3-22-19 M2239 to 14,662 ft. TRA/PHX 76/6000 "NYWR" beat my best M1550 flight.
14. 4-6-19 L900 to 10,492 ft. SSS Springblast AZ.
15. 5-17-20 L900 to 10,108 ft. SSS
16. 10-17-20 L1365 to 12,080 ft. SSS G. Harry Stein Memorial AZ.
17. 2-27-21 M1944 to 15,140 ft. 76/8000 with "Sharon's Sparkler" propellant TRA/PHX.
18. 5-29-21 M1550 13,408 ft. NSL Alamosa, Co. Ground elevation 7600 ft.
19. 6-4-21 M2017 NYWR 76/6000 research load 15,203 ft. NCR Pawnee National Grassland, Northern Colorado. Ground Elevation 5500 ft.
20. 5-21-22 M1550 13,483 ft. UROC Green River, Utah Ground Elevation 4500 ft.
21. 5-29-22 M1550 13,408 ft. SLVR Alamosa, Co. Ground Elevation 7600 ft.
22. 9-4-22 M1978 NYWR 76/6000 research load 12,688 ft. Airfest Argonia, Kansas Ground Elevation 1249 ft.
23. 11-5-22 M1550 14,384 ft. TRASD Holtville, Ca. Ground Elevation 59 ft.
24. 5-29-23 M1550 15,713 ft. NSL Alamosa, Co. Ground Elevation 7600 ft. Highest flight to date.
25. 9-2-23 M2096 NYWR 76/6000 research load 13,914 ft. Airfest Argonia, Ks. Ground Elevation 1249 ft.



Total altitude gained to date is 337,424 ft.

My dual deploy Estes Argent made it's first flight 12-17-2016 on an H115 Dark matter. It has 43 flights now, all but seven on that motor, and four flights on the G75 Metalstorm, two flights on the G125 Blue Thunder, and one on the G80 Blue thunder.

 

[b.wieting]

17 flights on my ancient Aerotech Arreaux, several at night with a strobe in an inserted plexiglass e-bay.
Pretty modest in this forum... Next in line, 7 flights on our Estes Shuttle.

I hope eventually to balance out a MoreRockets Tomcat to get intact repeat flights!

 

[dr wogz]

I have started writing the date & motor used on a fin of each rocket I fly. so I can have a running idea of what's flown the most, and when (and on what)

 

[b.wieting]

I have started writing the date & motor used on a fin of each rocket I fly. so I can have a running idea of what's flown the most, and when (and on what)

I printed little sticky transparent labels for the Arreaux, placing them on the body between fins. When, where, motor.

 

[NTP2]

I have started writing the date & motor used on a fin of each rocket I fly. so I can have a running idea of what's flown the most, and when (and on what)

if you have as many flights as others you must have small hand writing!

 

[RokitFlyr]

I've been doing that for a few years also.

 

[4regt4]

I try and mix it up at each launch, so rarely do I duplicate anything at subsequent events. So each rocket has gaps in it's flight history. And as I have quite a few, only some have reached the "10" mark or above. My top 3:

1. Scratch built 2" rocket, "Rudolph".



2. L1 cert rocket a heavily modified (internally) Leviathan clone.



3. And, much to my surprise, a Rocketarium Arcturus was up there in the count.





Hans.

 

[KenECoyote]

Believe it or not, I think it's this one...

Hangar 11 4"D X-15. I fly it at least once a year and often twice.

It used to be this one (custom cup rocket on Ds & Es), but I lost it last season when the cup ended up in the drink (river).


I really enjoy building and I try to launch everything I build, so often my flight roster is mostly filled with new builds.

 

[jkovac]

2.6” Madcow Tomach. Video from most recent flight, in March.

My video quality sucks when posted here, I see. Will try to figure that out.

 

[Scott_650]

I stopped keeping a log a while back but I’d say my stretched Super Big Bertha and my BMS 3” School Rockets - a 29mm powered version and a 24mm one - have flown more than just about anything else. Maybe my ASP Sky Ferry too since it gets flown at model rocket launches as well as when our club flies.

 

[Hobie1dog]

The only rocket I've ever flown three times was the PML MR-1 that was lost the last time it flew.

 

[Spacedog49Krell]

This rocket flew for 24 years, carrying my experimental flight computers, until my 4yo grandson accidentally stepped on it last year. The blue payload section is from an even older original Enerjet 1340. The fins and motor mount survived, so it will fly again this year.

 

[Joel Shepherd]

Nothing fancy, but I have a Big Daddy and a Doorknob that have flown 34 and 33 times respectively. The Doorknob is close to indestructible (knock on wood). Also have an STM-012 that has flown 20 times rigged for dual deployment, with about an 80% success rate: that's been educational.

 

[OZRoc]

Hawk Mountain Jumanji. (Avatar) Been flying it at least three times a year since 2013. Suffered a cato in 2015 but was rebuilt.
Cheers

 

[bjphoenix]

if you have as many flights as others you must have small hand writing!

A member of our club has a Baby Bertha with a LOT of flights on it. He puts tick marks on the fins, like the cartoons of the guy in prison marking the days with lines on the wall.

This rocket flew for 24 years, carrying my experimental flight computers, until my 4yo grandson accidentally stepped on it last year. The blue payload section is from an even older original Enerjet 1340. The fins and motor mount survived, so it will fly again this year.

That's pretty good- flying a rocket with steeply swept fins and landing on a hard surface.

For me- I don't keep any records. I launch my BT60 Nike Smoke and Estes Patriot Missile a lot because they fly reasonably well but low on B6 motors on our small flying field. At our larger flying field I tend to fly my Big Daddy and V2 (Silver Comet) a lot (on D12).

 

[JackC]

Hawk Mountain Jumanji. (Avatar) Been flying it at least three times a year since 2013. Suffered a cato in 2015 but was rebuilt.
Cheers

The Jumanji was my L2 bird way back in 2004. Excellent rocket. I doon't recall what happened to it. I will build another and make it dual deployment!

 

[speed]

2.6” Madcow Tomach. Video from most recent flight, in March.

My video quality sucks when posted here, I see. Will try to figure that out.

My 2.6" Tomach has flown once a month for the past 5 years, sometimes more!
Mine Flys great.