What did you do rocket wise today?

Yeah, that HP206C looks great for the money! I am still new to the microcontroller realm so I went with overpriced parts to start with.

launch few RTF Estes Rocket in Winds near 25 mph ( up to C ) , was a good practice on the sizing or absence or chutes and angle of the rod.

I have been doing random electronics projects just to try and develop some skills with a soldering iron and microcontrollers. It is all to make rocketry stuff eventually so I guess turning my toaster into a toaster counts as doing something in rocketry

Just bought 3 new kits:

- Der Red Max
- Bull Pup
- Patriot

Finished up one of my rocketry electronics projects: DIY Altusmetrum Telemega from scratch. Hand-placing the surface mount components wasn't too difficult, but very tedious. The bonus was a 100% success rate. Extra one listed in the Yard Sale. I hope to fly it this weekend; time will tell. (No launch this weekend. Here's hoping for August.) I'm still planning out my first ground-up electronics project.

Found some good Missiles to consider scratchbuilding. The Soviet S-200 Angara looks quite attractive.

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Putting the final touches on my Ricochet. I totally guessed the wrong shade of blue for the top half. I may sand it down and redo it later.

Last night I started designing a semi-scale MIM-23 Hawk missile.

Finished Astron Elliptic 1.

I have been working on my scratch built "Emasculator" for the last few weeks. She will be my first DD. Honey-do lists have taken priority over the rocket. :sad:

UPS man just dropped off a package and it turns out I have received a free pint kit of Aeropoxy Structural Adhesive...

Received a prototype 3D printer. The company that my mother works for is looking to sell them so its my job to play with it.

I have to wait until my sister leaves town with her kids before I can play.

TopRamen said:

Finished Astron Elliptic 1.

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Man you are seriously like a rocket factory, how many builds do you have?

mpitfield said:

Man you are seriously like a rocket factory, how many builds do you have?

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My Fleet of Flyable Birds numbers 13. Not very prolific caompared to most Folks here, but I've only been a BAR since August of last Year, and 5 of my Birds are 13mm, so make what you want of it.
I'm totally re-hooked on Rocketry!

Finally digging into the new Odd'l Rockets Blog!

www.oddlrockets.com

Kit and accessory listings and dealer pages are being added. It'll be an ongoing project.
Now if I could just get the page topper to the right size width!

Built a 24mm / 29mm adaptor for an upscale Astro-1.

Laid out the materials to prep models for tomorrow's flight in Wilsonville, OR.

Printed my first water slide decal in years. Film is a little brittle, but I think I can make it work. Just needs to dry overnight and then clear coat.

worked on my 24mm Super Alpha cause I couldn't got launch rockets. :sad:

Beautiful weather most of the month and on the day when there are 2 seperate club lauches they are cancelled because of rain.:rant:

- Repaired broken fin on the viking
- Despite all advice, added much weight to the viking's nose cone
- Started building the estes novia (all is assembled, first primer coating on nose cone)

More Sanding and Primer.

I cleaned the motor HW from Beach Blast. And I ordered a bunch of new reloads from AMW! Looking forward to Fall launches.

Launched the Estes Riptide on a B6-4 and a C6-5. First time launching with a C motor. Winds were ~15 Km/h. The Riptide went high and far. I was really hoping for the chute to deploy, otherwise it ended up on a street or in the river.

I recovered it 50 m from the launchpad.

I flew my Magg on a CTI I212 Smoker. Pretty sweet flight, got up there better than I expected.

Well, I went to my first launch in 10 months. (My knee and back issues have kept me from playing more). I sent up my Public Enemies Predator, on and AT I-200. This motor was loaded over 4 years ago for another project, (long story), and I felt I had to either fly it or burn it. It flew just fine! I did put an altimeter in it, wasn't sure about the delay grain. It just shows that an old motor, properly stored, CAN be used. I'm not gonna make a habit of that, however.
Next, I sent up a Formula 38 on a Cesaroni F-240. Some of the spectators were surprised at how quick this left the pad.
But, I gotta confess, the most fun was a little boost glider kit I picker up a while back. I sent it up on an A8-3, the pod separated and came back on it's streamer, and the glider made three lazy circles, and landed about 3 feet from the pad. It was a very good day!

Phil L.