Hello from Las Vegas, NV

[Brian McCullough]

Hi all,

Pleased to be here. I've been doing high power for about a year. I'm currently working on the Wildman Drago XL. This forum has been very helpful so I decided to sign up for an account.

Happy flying,
Brian

 

[smstachwick]

Hi all,

Pleased to be here. I've been doing high power for about a year. I'm currently working on the Wildman Drago XL. This forum has been very helpful so I decided to sign up for an account.

Happy flying,
Brian

Happy flying to you as well! Welcome aboard.

 

[Hobie1dog]

to the forum Brian

 

[Huxter]

Welcome from Utah! Feel free to share any pics you may have!

 

[DRAGON64]

Welcome to the Rocketry Forum!

 

[Brian McCullough]

Happy flying to you as well! Welcome aboard.

Thank you!

 

[Brian McCullough]

@Huxter you asked for pics. Here's my Apogee Zephyr converted to dual deploy sitting on the pad at Jean Dry Lake Bed outside Vegas. I did my L1 and L2 with this rocket. Second pic is progress on me and my buddy Matt's Drago XLs. First flight scheduled for February on those.

 

[Huxter]

Awesome! I would love to launch there - nice area.

So you guys are building 2 Dragos? Sounds like some races are in you future! Good luck - they look great!

 

[AndrewGil]

Welcome! Tripoli Vegas was where I called home for the last year. I have since moved to Florida for school, but that club has some fantastic people.

 

[The.MiniTard]

Welcome. I live in Las Vegas too! Not quite yet at the high power stage yet but I plan to build one soon.

 

[Brian McCullough]

Awesome! I would love to launch there - nice area.

So you guys are building 2 Dragos? Sounds like some races are in you future! Good luck - they look great!

Yeah we are both building Drago XLs at the same time. It really helps to learn together and bounce ideas off each other. First time building glass for both of us.

Jean is definitely a cool area to fly. We are super lucky it's only 20 minutes away.

 

[Brian McCullough]

Welcome! Tripoli Vegas was where I called home for the last year. I have since moved to Florida for school, but that club has some fantastic people.

Hi Andrew, I agree. It's a really great group of people. We couldn't be doing what we are doing without that club.

 

[Brian McCullough]

Welcome. I live in Las Vegas too! Not quite yet at the high power stage yet but I plan to build one soon.

Pleased to meet you! Do you attend the Tripoli Vegas launches?

You'll love high power. We were flying Estes a year ago and took the plunge. It's been a wild ride.

 

[AndrewGil]

Pleased to meet you! Do you attend the Tripoli Vegas launches?

You'll love high power. We were flying Estes a year ago and took the plunge. It's been a wild ride.

I can agree that step into high power is a fun and exciting time.

 

[teepot]

I didn't see this before. I'm in Pahrump and fly with Tripoli LV. The lake bed should be dry by the 21st. If we don't get any more rain. Hope to see you then.

Dave

 

[Brian McCullough]

I didn't see this before. I'm in Pahrump and fly with Tripoli LV. The lake bed should be dry by the 21st. If we don't get any more rain. Hope to see you then.

Dave

Likewise, hope to see you out there! I won't be flying anything until Feb but still want to swing by the Jan launch.

 

[Hobie1dog]

It's Monsoon season there:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/weather/las-vegas-rain-flooding/index.html

 

[Dane Ronnow]

Welcome to the neighborhood, @bmac. I've been launching solo at Jean for the past year or so, G-motor MPRs. It's a great place—lots of room, zero trees.

Enjoy the Forum! Good people, great advice.

 

[Brian McCullough]

Welcome to the neighborhood, @bmac. I've been launching solo at Jean for the past year or so, G-motor MPRs. It's a great place—lots of room, zero trees.

Enjoy the Forum! Good people, great advice.

Thanks Dane! It's definitely a great place to fly. Tons of open space to recover your rockets.

 

[CoolRockets]

Welcome to the form! What’s in your fleet?

 

[Brian McCullough]

Welcome to the form! What’s in your fleet?

Hi @CoolRockets, my first HPR was an Apogee Zephyr that I converted to dual deploy. I'm building my second rocket now, a Wildman Drago XL. Will be attempting L3 with it here soon.

 

[CoolRockets]

Hi @bmac, those are some cool rockets In your fleet! I myself have no HPR stuff (I’m mainly focused on LPR, and MPR), although I am working on a 5 foot tall spacex starship that could quite possibly take an H size engine. Anyway you can call me C.R. or something like that. Again, welcome to the form.

 

[Brian McCullough]

Thanks, C.R. That SpaceX build sounds super fun. Definitely post pics when it's ready.

 

[CoolRockets]

I’m still working on sourcing the parts, (I have to find a company that can laser cut 4 enormous transparent polyurethane fins) but once there are parts, there will be pictures