Great shots! I'm surprised no one has typed up a recap of what's happened so far. I guess I'll post my rendition of it (since I already have it for a couple of friends who couldn't make it). Will be posting photos also later. Enjoy!
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Friday: The 1st day we were there was still really windy with a few brave fliers. From we were told, no flying was done on Thursday (1st day of LDRS) due to 50+ mph wind gusts (we felt it driving into CA that night). We just wandered around looking at people's projects that were laid out. We decided not to go back for the night launch, since the RSO had mentioned that the odds of it opening back up were slim (heard later that only a couple of small ones went off).
Saturday: Most of the fun & large projects went on this day. The 29 Mass Squat launch at 7AM, pretty nuts but cool to watch. Too bad not everyone went with skids, that would have been fun. There was a drag race between 7 N10000 Skidmarks which proved to be quite the sight (had been postponed from Friday). We saw Kari Byron from Mythbusters show from the Discovery Channel throughout the weekend. There was another mass launch that ended up with several rockets CATO-ing right above Kari while she was filming. She didn't seem phased at all.
AZ Patriot team had a great performance with their Patriot battery. Interceptor team had a great up and suffered reparable damage on the way down. Delta 2 team had an unfortunate accident due to a chained reaction where the 2nd stage blew up while in prep mode. 2 people were hurt, causing the range to be shutdown and had to be air evac'd. Last I heard, they were ok and were due to be released today. I hope the Discovery Channel doesn't paint the hobby in a bad light...Heard they were planning on airing video clips the week of July 4th). Range was later re-opened, but spirits were dampened. Night launches were somewhat conservative, but still cool. I think some people were at the banquet. I also don't blame people for not wanting to navigate through the trenches in the middle of the night looking for their rockets. :eyepop:
Sunday: Much of the weekend crowd dwindled when we were prepping to leave. Galactica flew in the morning. Jack (Whats up hobbies) had a N10000 Drag race with another person with a Patriot. We caught the main event for Sunday, Wildman project on an O Skidmark before having to leave to return to reality on Monday.
Overall, it was great experience as our 1st LDRS to see the large/crazy projects and meeting people. Definitely not complaining about the weather that was out there (aside from the windy conditions).
Can't wait to see what happened today for the experimental projects!
