URRF6 June 21, 22, 23th

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Mustang67 said:
URRF 6 flyers, members, and spectators,we have a featured flight update and a must see event!
Tomorrow morning between 9-9:30 AM, Rick Comshaw, a URRG Club member is flying a very special rocket, a Wildman 8" round 12 FT tall Jumbo Dark Star Rocket. This is one of three Jumbo Dark Star Rockets ever produced.

This rocket is set to take off on a massive 98 MM 09700 Motor. Projected flight is 16,000 feet at Mach 1 right off the pad! Yes, Mach 1 right from take off!! As soon as the rocket passes 100 feet above the pad it will exceed Mach 2! Which is will be about 1,504 miles per hour.

This is not a flight you will want to miss!!
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How did this flight turn out?
 
First: thank you to the organizers for such an amazing event. Thank you to all the people attending for being so incredibly helpful and friendly. Thank you to the Fliskits guys for spending time hanging out with my son and helping him to be able to register and fly at the event, and all the vendors for sharing time and knowledge. We 100% plan on attending next year, and next time we'll be bringing rockets to fly as well. I didn't know what to expect attending this event but the people and event were absolutely awesome!

Second: I still haven't had time to sort through all my pictures, but I dedicated an hour to importing into Lighroom so I'd have at least a few pictures to share: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-zCRlNJQS4rAFQrZd21NkvMGeNzRo988?usp=sharing

I'm not a great photographer and I didn't have as long of a lens as I wish I had had, but I figured I'd share some of what I took for the people that couldn't make it. If anyone's interested I took a bunch more, my wife has a few videos, and my son took some pictures of rockets behind the flight line and I can share more soon.
 
dmlappert said:
Okay... was able to launch Big Shot on an O-3000. Due to high winds, weather cocked a bit. Main out at 11,385'. Nevertheless recovered 1 mile away, directly next to the farm entrance road. Still struggling with zippering the booster. Happened last year as well. Will change setup slightly next year, and boost on a GUBU Blue Moon O.... 3's a charm?View attachment 386685View attachment 386686
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I saw that going out and laying in the field. The zipper wasn't bad, but definitely not good. Great UP!
 
Eric Spittle said:
First: thank you to the organizers for such an amazing event. Thank you to all the people attending for being so incredibly helpful and friendly. Thank you to the Fliskits guys for spending time hanging out with my son and helping him to be able to register and fly at the event, and all the vendors for sharing time and knowledge. We 100% plan on attending next year, and next time we'll be bringing rockets to fly as well. I didn't know what to expect attending this event but the people and event were absolutely awesome!

Second: I still haven't had time to sort through all my pictures, but I dedicated an hour to importing into Lighroom so I'd have at least a few pictures to share: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-zCRlNJQS4rAFQrZd21NkvMGeNzRo988?usp=sharing

I'm not a great photographer and I didn't have as long of a lens as I wish I had had, but I figured I'd share some of what I took for the people that couldn't make it. If anyone's interested I took a bunch more, my wife has a few videos, and my son took some pictures of rockets behind the flight line and I can share more soon.
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I second that... This field and club is always great. This weekend was blessed with fantastic weather, so the flying was just awesome.

I would love to see any photos/pictures you have from the event.
If you or anyone has video of the Mega Menace 442 going up, please post.
 
Ohh mannn,,
This launch jst turned out to be the best launch ever,,
What a smokin time everyone had..
Flight after flight,, they were just spectacular..
It just never gets old watching something leave the rail thats just enormous..
Every flight has something about t that makes it different..
Just smokin flights all day..
This was truly a special launch...

Mailman said:
Another day spent patiently waiting... No worries though, we got to spend the day with some animals at the Farm Sanctuary.View attachment 386538
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Tat's a really nice thing to see while you're in the Finger Lakes region..
Where is that place ??
There's really a lot to do here,, especially if your at all into wine,, the area is just spectacular scenery and winery's all over the place...

jd2cylman said:
What??? No pics yet? Aren't you guys an hour ahead of us??? :p:p:D:D
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I know right Adrian,,
That's your buddy Erik for ya..
No pics yet for the guy's back home..
Heyy,,
Wait a minute,,
You have to come here Adrian..
I promise man,, if you can find your way to make it to the east coast for this you surly wont regret it..
This was a launch for the record books..
It was just the 2 most beautiful days for launch weather you've ever seen back to back..
Adrian, I know it's tough with life getting in the way and all,,
but you have to make it to a URRF launch..

crossfire said:
Pictures we need some. Help us out Eric. Don't you feel bad for us back home who had to work and able to attend?
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Lol,,
Gary,,
This is a launch of launches..
One you will remember for all time..
I had to worK ???
How many freakin times have you retired now,, lol,, lol..
You and the misses have to come for a URRF launch Gary..
You'll have the bestest time ever..

Teddy
 
Ohh yeahh,,
Adrian,,
Erik said he's most definitely going to make it out here for another launch before he has to go back to work...
Come out with him man..
You'll remember it always..
You could spend a week in the Finger Lakes and it wouldn't be long enough..
I only wis I could promise you a duplicate of the weather we had..
It started out rainy, we lost a day to that..
But after that it was just incredible..

Teddy
 
We had a truly amazing URRF 6 event!!! And a significant increase in flyers, and new club members. The new food vendor was fantastic, our support team did a killer job, and the new friendships and stories created this past weekend will last a lifetime for sure.

I personally met some truly amazing people, the kind to give you a hand in a moments notice, extend a bottle water or a glass of lemonade because they could tell you just came back in from a rocket recovery. My neighbor Mickey Rowe was extremely kind to my family and helped my sun get his rocket prepped as I worked the event. There was an abundance of stories and people a-like throughout our event, and so from the entire URRG BOD and URRF 6 team, we would like to say thank you to all of our volunteers URRG members, Torrey Farms, and local Penn Yan community for supporting us, and making this all happen.

As a fellow Rocketeer said, it takes a village to make this all happen, and so we thank you!

Jerry Briggs
Launch Director, URRF 6
 
Some photos of the event:


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case celaning, when i got home!

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kevin's 4" Dark Star on a K700 to 6000'
(That's him & his son Zachary watching, with tracker in hand. A new personal best!)

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Me & my LOC goblin on a J250. Altimer says 3439'.. my first flight Sunday morning

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A random shot from saturday
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Flightline from our tent.

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Me & my upscale Bleu Bird Zero. H-180 to 2400' this was my first flight of the event, Saturday..

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Zachary & his dinner, Thursday night after settling in. This after the 5hr drive thru the massive tropical monsoon like rain! Man, what a wet drive!
 
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Me n my Darkstar Jr. This flew twice, once each day.

Day one was on an H170 to just under 2K
Day two was on a J420 to 5903 ft.

Eggtimer Quantum & Mini on board, with hand-held LCD GPS..

This makes 3 personal bests:
Broke a mile
Largest impulse to date
Almost MACH (900-something ft/sec)

Confidence with the Eggfinders improving!

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Thanks to the URRF crew for all their hard work and organization. We appreciate it.

I will be returning to URRF for another L3 attempt, as my NC came down too fast on its 100 ft steamer. My son did successfully make his. We had a great time, though, and it was a wonderful experience. Two L3 shots in one weekend. Does Father/Son bonding get any better than that!

Someone wanted me to witness their "NAR Rocket Science Achievement Award Member Achievements, 3 mile". 11:30ish sat flight, away cell. Just before mineIMG_7828_cr.jpg IMG_7853_cr.jpg . Send me your data if you still want me to witness.


I was chasing down rockets, so didn't the the Upscale Deuces Wild up. Next time.
 
Thanks to the URRF crew for putting on a great event. Because of the efficient operation, I got three launches up in one day.
 
WOW. what a great weekend. My first URRF where I actually had the time to fly several rockets because recovery went so well. Good job and kudos to the flyers for keeping things mostly on our field. only about 6 HP rockets stuck in trees and the Gray Squirrel was working hard on getting them down. Only 1 rocket went into the restricted landing area and that was an easy recovery as well. The improvements to the road and the decision to cancel Friday kept everyone clean and dry on the field. and the food, both on the field and off was great as well. next year the BBQ vendor said he is going to add hotdogs and hamburgers to the menu. Over all the best URRF ever, Can't wait for URRF7.
 
gelling said:
WOW. what a great weekend. My first URRF where I actually had the time to fly several rockets because recovery went so well. Good job and kudos to the flyers for keeping things mostly on our field. only about 6 HP rockets stuck in trees and the Gray Squirrel was working hard on getting them down. Only 1 rocket went into the restricted landing area and that was an easy recovery as well. The improvements to the road and the decision to cancel Friday kept everyone clean and dry on the field. and the food, both on the field and off was great as well. next year the BBQ vendor said he is going to add hotdogs and hamburgers to the menu. Over all the best URRF ever, Can't wait for URRF7.
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+1.......

Teddy
 
My family and I had a great weekend at URRF. This was our second event and will definitely be on the calendar going forward! Camping just down the road from the launch site at Country Charm is a blast. The launch site itself is fantastic and the club members and volunteers that keep the show going are first rate!

If you were at the launch, you heard my wife Rosemary on the microphone as she had a great time being LCO for 4 shifts. My kids worked together to win the Fliskits sponsored Alphabet Race, launching A->G on Saturday morning.

I accomplished my goal for the weekend, which was 3 x two stage HPR launches, the 3rd two stage launch was L->J which was also my first L motor (thanks Teddy!).

A big thanks to everyone that made this weekend happen! Rosemary took a quick picture of the flyer's meeting on Sunday morning, here's a shot of some of the people that were hard at work before, during and after this launch Dutch, Larry, Jerry, Greg & Bob.

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Also, shout-out to Grey Squirrel aka Jason who climbed a monster of a tree to safely recovery my rocket that could have landed 10ft to the side in an open field but instead chose to landed in the tallest damn tree around. In the picture below, I've marked him with the yellow circle, the fincan is the red circle.

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I should also comment that this launch was one of the first where I did feel truly welcome, and encouraged to attend all the post-launch activities. Being at the campsite helped a lot in that regard!

The memories of 'walking on a marshmallow' will remain with me for a long time! (The ground was squishy, like walking on marshmallows..)

A few of the locals; farmers, came by to watch with their kids in tow. Most in bare feet. That I thought neat..


Tim: How's your ankle?
 
dr wogz said:
I should also comment that this launch was one of the first where I did feel truly welcome, and encouraged to attend all the post-launch activities. Being at the campsite helped a lot in that regard!

The memories of 'walking on a marshmallow' will remain with me for a long time! (The ground was squishy, like walking on marshmallows..)

A few of the locals; farmers, came by to watch with their kids in tow. Most in bare feet. That I thought neat..


Tim: How's your ankle?
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Hey man!
Thanks for joining in the Jenga fun. I'm glad there were a couple of guys able to understand the humor of the moment...
It was great hanging out, I hope to see you at URRF 7. Maybe try to make it to Midwest Power? I'd love to see you there!
-Erik
 
CzTeacherMan said:
Hey man!
Thanks for joining in the Jenga fun. I'm glad there were a couple of guys able to understand the humor of the moment...
It was great hanging out, I hope to see you at URRF 7. Maybe try to make it to Midwest Power? I'd love to see you there!
-Erik
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Wad do yu mean URRF 7 ????
Yu promised you'd make it out to another URRG launch before the summer is out...
I guarantee you could talk Tim into giving yu a ride ( after his ankle heals up of course )..

Teddy
 

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