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love your videos!
We were joking yesterday that I could call the phone company and complain about my phone service. When they ask where’s the phone, I’ll tell them it’s on top of the tree. I haven’t figured out yet what to say when they ask how I got the phone on top of the tree.Maybe next time put some catnip on the rocket, and bring a cat with you.
When the cat meanders up the tree to get the catnip and gets stuck in the tree and can’t get down, then you can make a call to the Fire Dept, and maybe they can grab the rocket at the same time they are making the cat rescue!
But then the Firemen might want to adopt the cat and take it back to their fire station, and name him Pickles…and give him his own fire hat…
Thanks. If I add up all the motors I’ve used over the past year, would probably equal one large HPR motor.Your videos are addicting, it makes me appreciate LPR.
IDK, my DBCP has been around the ringer and may not be as quick as it used to.Failure is not an option!
Great Astrocam video to boot.
And glad you got the FS Mini. That is now unobtanium.
Hope I can drag race against your rebuilt Upscale CP at the next MP launch.
Laters.
Thanks. Keep reading...“Maybe I’ll do model trains. You don’t lose those very easily.”
Great flight. Sorry for the loss.
Artemis didn't go but we launched several at the park on a cloudy Hawaiian day
I decided to not run the live stream because I didn't know if we would be rained out. It sprinkled a little bit. My plan was to watch the Artemis launch from my laptop but was not to be. There was a convection layer at about 300 feet. Rockets above that level would catch the wind then drop precipitously. The main problem with undefined clouds like today is that it's harder for the handycam to focus on the rockets in in the foreground. The park grass needed the rain. I noticed bald patches where grass may have a hard time growing back. Fortunately, the grass on the northern end by the softball field is still green. I guess the football teams don't need the grass really, and this helps us with launching the rockets in the area. At the beginning, I was wearing what I'm calling a Hawaiian scarf, a fan that blows air on my head. It's works but is a little noisy.
The 2to2.5 rocket consisted of parts I bought from the Estes website and decided to use Cherokee style fins. I had also bought at the time an extra 3" tube that I used to repair the DBCP. It's a stand-in name until I can think of something catchy. Before launch, I had that moment of hesitation when I couldn't remember if I connected everything... guess I did. I actually sim'd the rocket at 210ft on a D12-3. I didn't have any so used the D12-5 which worked okay. It has a 29mm mount so might try one at the farm.
We looked around for the Bertha but couldn't find it. We thought we heard it smacking into the tennis courts which was being used at the time for practice. I was prepared to apologize for mortaring their game. They said they haven't seen or heard a rocket land. The video wasn't helpful, so the most likely explanation is that it smacked into a tree limb and is hanging there. I'll look for it more tomorrow. Afterwards, we got the Mini Fat Boy that has been hanging in a tree for over a year. Coincidently, the NC is similar to the Bertha. The D20-4W wouldn't light before so scraped the insides. I also used a newer initiator. After some dramatic chuffing, it worked like a bat out of hell.
00:00 Intro
01:18 2to2.5 - 207ft 5pts
02:41 Spirit 4pts
03:57 Gary's Mars Leaper
04:25 Boosted Bertha 3pts
05:44 Flip Flyer 4pts
06:27 Gary's Orange Scratcher
07:10 Gary's USS Reliant
08:00 Nike Apache 525ft 5pts
09:40 Gary's Showstopper
10:32 Vortico 3pts
11:11 Total 24pts + 5 bonus = 29pts
where did you get the telescopic pole?Bertha rescued. I think I’ll only stick to B6-0/A8-3.
First, I need to figure out how to string test the Vortico.Made for a great day, despite the winds. Well edited video, as usual.
wish you had an altimeter on the Vortico, would have been interesting to see the initial NEGATIVE one foot altitude before it left the rod!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F1HZRBT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1It got a little beat up trying to remove the DBCP but still has 22ft left.where did you get the telescopic pole?
Video please.First, I need to figure out how to string test the Vortico.
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