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I don't remember this but it does sound like me. I'm a big fan of supporting a vendor that puts in the time, money, and effort to show up to a launch. It's important for the hobby to have those guys there and I want make sure it's worth their time. Besides, who doesn't want another (bigger) motor?

Since this thread has been revived... Now is the time for students to be applying for 2024 summer internships. I'll repeat my earlier suggestion to look at the Space Workforce 2030 website as one option: https://swf2030.org/national-space-interns/

Here is what I have. I believe this is heavily based on a file shared by @Handeman.

I do. I'll try to upload it this evening.

UPDATE: This launch has been canceled due to a local fire ban. This weekend (Nov 11 & 12), Tripoli Central Virginia will be launching at our field in Culpeper VA. The weather is looking fantastic with low-winds and comfortable temperatures. Flyer's need to register on the website...

We had a great weekend in Culpeper. The winds were calm and the temperatures were great. We had 160 flights over the 3 days including 2 M motors and 7 L motors. Some photos will be uploaded to the website soon Our next launch is November 11 & 12. See you there!

I'm hoping to fly my 6" Performer 150. I've got an L1390 loaded and ready to go.

The weather for this weekend looks amazing! With almost no wind in the forecast, I'm hoping for straight flights and short walks!

Notes make it too much like work! :)

A couple years ago, I started thinking about a similar idea. I didn't have any desire to design/visualize rockets on my phone, I just wanted to run a simulation like I do with Thrustcurve but using OpenRocket and my pre-defined rockets (from Ork files). The plan I had was develop a REST-like...

With rain forecast all day, Saturday's setup / launch has been postponed until Sunday. Weather permitting, we'll spend the morning and start launching rockets once the range is setup (mid-afternoon). Updates will be posted to the club website (battlepark.org)

No. That's not how altimeters or pyro charges work. If they fired, there was a reason. The world is complicated and root cause analysis is hard. Saying you don't know why they fired is fair and honest; saying they fired for no reason is disingenuous In the this incident, we can know the...

Unexpected I believe, inexplicable I don't. There are a lot of reason a user may be surprised by an charge firing (mostly user error). If you can't determine the root cause afterwards, the unit should be returned to the manufacturer for evaluation to determine the cause. Electronics and...

Tripoli Central Virginia has announced our launch schedule for the 2023-2024 season. Details are available on the website (battlepark.org) but here are the highlights. Oct 14 & 15 -We’ll be setting up the range on Saturday morning. More help, gets us flying sooner. Oct 27, 28 & 29 – Three day...

This is what makes Python so powerful. It's easy enough to teach a middle school student, capable of powering the backend of some of the of some of the world's largest websites, and flexible enough for all manner of data science. Like Handeman said, the right tool for the right job...

The trick is that pyqt doesn't really handle any of the plotting, it's just displaying a qt canvas which matplotlib is driving. Things get sketchier when you add significant qt-driven plot interactions. It's a shame PythonQwt isn't (wasn't) well maintained, it was a very nice, well performing...

The Python global interpreter lock (GIL) makes this (mostly) unnecessary but also means that Python threads aren't unique processes and your performance improvements are heavily dependent upon the application. For something like this project, a thread will often help because the GIL will be...

AFL games are the most fun I've ever had at a sporting event. Non-stop excitement.

Feminist! Crazy to consider women people. Outrageous!

The IR thermometer is the wrong tool for that job. The thermometer is reporting the average brightness temperature of everything in the detector's field-of-view. Add to that, most metals (including those making up the hot end) have fairly low emissivity and any temperature you measure will be...