Club launch

[kelltym88]

Well, I made it out to our club launch on Saturday. The SCRA of Southern California. It was an absolutely perfect day. Not to rub it in, but this is why I love So Cal in Dec. Take a look. That's me helping to set up. Notice I'm wearing shorts and it is clear with almost no wind. It was about 80' that day.

 

[kelltym88]

The first rocket I flew was my original Estes Pathfinder. Hadn't flown that in probably 10 years or more. It flew great. Sorry didn't get a picture of that one. Next up my son Kellen is hooking up the Der Red Deuce.

 

[kelltym88]

I got a shot of it just as it was leaving the pad.....

 

[kelltym88]

And here it is up in the air. Yes only one motor lit, but it did not affect the flight too much, still was a good flight and recovery. This is a 24mm Deuce by the way. I attempted to chad stage with 2 D12-0 to 2 D11-9, but the RSO wouldn't let me do it there. I'll have to wait until next time out at Lucerne.

 

[kelltym88]

Then I sent up my Renegade. This is a clone of the original Estes kit, not the new one.

 

[kelltym88]

You'll notice that next to the Renegade is a larger rocket. Didn't get the guys name but he told me it was a kit bash of an AT Warthog and something else. He added a payload bay and custom made a cluster MMT. He was flying it on 2 29mm motors. Take a look.....

 

[kelltym88]

I attemted to send up my "repaired" Shrox Icarus. In another thread I mentioned that it core sampled. Well I fixed it and made it 24mm compatible. I loaded it up with an AT E15-7. Take a good look at it......

 

[kelltym88]

I didn't loose it, just missed the launch. I'll explain later, got to go to work. More to come stay tuned.....

 

[jflis]

oh! oh! OH!

I hope you got a pix of Der Red Deuce launching!

 

[astronboy]

Nice pics... it sounds like a good time!!
Phred

 

[kelltym88]

Originally posted by jflis
oh! oh! OH!

I hope you got a pix of Der Red Deuce launching!

See picture 12a above.

 

[kelltym88]

I didn't want to launch any 29mm stuff so I loaded up my 29mm Mean Machine with a 24mm adapter and stuck an F21-4 in it. I had made it so it breaks apart in the middle with 2 seperate 'chutes. Man do I love those F21-4's. Here she is on the pad, I think if you look carefully the engine is just starting to ignite.

 

[kelltym88]

The only draw back to these motors is that they are so stinkin fast, once they ignite they're gone. All I got was a smoke trail.

 

[kelltym88]

Well during all of this my Icarus was having igniter problems. As I was chasing down the Mean Machine, the igniter got changed and the Icarus was launched. It was a good flight, or so I'm told as I never saw it. One of the fins got broken, no big deal that's fixable.


Next up was my Vindicator. Here it is on the pad.

 

[kelltym88]

And here it is in mid flight. Flight and recovery were perfect. I think I used a C6-5 in it.



If you look carefully in the background you see my purple truck and the big yellow box I carry my rockets in.

 

[kelltym88]

Well I had to try the Deuce again, so my son loaded it up with 2 more D12-5's and we tried it again. This picture is right at liftoff.

 

[kelltym88]

I'll be a son of a gun if only one motor lit again. But I got a good shot of it.


That was our day. Not a whole lot of launches 'cause of how many people were there, but still fun nonetheless.

 

[jflis]

them's the oddest Deuce launch photos...

Glad that it still flew well though