It was a fun afternoon. I flew a few more after Ken and the rest of the folks with him left. Unfortunately that included a D12-5 CATO that wiped out my Green Eggs on its 35th flight. Fins scattered over a 20-foot radius and nothing else much left of the bottom 6-8 inches of it. The charred top of the motor mount is still up in the body. I didn’t find the motor hook and I’m sure there are other bits of body tube still on the field as well.
MESS reports filed for that, the A10-0T that blew in the first stage of the Checkmate and the C18-6W that made my Nova Payloader skywrite on its 113th flight (some others of which have been on C18-6Ws).
My wife and I will be at Ocean Shores next Friday, and getting ready for the trip on Sunday (day after tomorrow), so I’ll miss you guys either way. I will, however, be flying rockets a little bit off the beaches there. I have an Alpha III with a streamer that‘s been flown there on several occasions in the past, and that won’t be the only thing I’ll take. We’ll have kites, too…for days when it’s too windy for rockets.
I have no idea where Ken gets this “world famous” bit….