liftoff! gallery

UrbanKnight · Jan 21, 2012

Scratch built "Razor Blade"

Big Bertha with dual C6-5 motors

stickershock23 · Jan 21, 2012

UrbanKnight said:
Scratch built "Razor Blade"

Big Bertha with dual C6-5 motors

Hey you are making miss those SCRA launches... I lived about a mile from there for YEARS..

qquake2k · Jan 21, 2012

UrbanKnight said:
Big Bertha with dual C6-5 motors

Nice looking launch site. Is that a levee in the background?

atxcple · Jan 21, 2012

Freedoms price In Full paint and stickershock graphics on a LOKI M2550 Blue Motor...

Hutto TX Jan 2012.

cdondanville · Jan 21, 2012

This the fourth launch of a 4" semi scale Patriot. Motor was a research J (6grain 38mm). The ejection charge at apogee failed. The igniter popped but failed to light the powder. Main popped at 300' as it was coming in ballistic. Not much left, but the e-bay survived,

Fe Dude · Jan 21, 2012

cdondanville said:
This the fourth launch of a 4" semi scale Patriot. Motor was a research J (6grain 38mm). The ejection charge at apogee failed. The igniter popped but failed to light the powder. Main popped at 300' as it was coming in ballistic. Not much left, but the e-bay survived,

Sad to see. If you don't mind me asking, how long was your payload section? I core sampled mine, and am going to convert it to DD.

stickershock23 · Jan 21, 2012

qquake2k said:
Nice looking launch site. Is that a levee in the background?

Not really it is actually a dam.. and the launch is taking place inside it...
that was built so if the damn upstream ever fails. or overloads, this seconday dam is supposed to catch it.. in the real bad rainy seasons you cant launch there.. that is all underwater..

gdjsky01 · Jan 21, 2012

I launch there all the time. Well twice a month schedule permitting. It's the best launch area by a dam site :rofl:

stickershock23 · Jan 21, 2012

gdjsky01 said:
I launch there all the time. Well twice a month schedule permitting. It's the best launch area by a dam site :rofl:

I lived right off citrus and Cypress in covina for 12 or 13 years.. I have done MANY SCRA launches

cdondanville · Jan 21, 2012

Fe Dude said:
Sad to see. If you don't mind me asking, how long was your payload section? I core sampled mine, and am going to convert it to DD.

24" payload deployed a 45" topflite. Chute stripped right off and bled a lot of energy before impact saving the electronics and motor hardware.

UrbanKnight · Jan 21, 2012

stickershock23 said:
Hey you are making miss those SCRA launches... I lived about a mile from there for YEARS..

I kind of wish CA wasn't so strict so I didn't have to drive an hour just to launch, but I admit it's really fun watching some 50 flights of your own rockets as well as other people's (including some really fascinating creations) compared to just driving to a remote area, firing off a couple of 3 packs, and going home.

qquake2k said:
Nice looking launch site. Is that a levee in the background?

As Stickershock23 said, it's a flood control dam. We get very little rain around here, but we also have poor drainage. That gives us reason to have many flood control basins. The larger ones are turned into recreational facilities which often include parks, ponds, golf courses, bike paths, nature preserves, model airplane fields, etc. (which are obviously closed during heavy rain).

Disaster_Guy · Jan 21, 2012

atxcple said:
Freedoms price In Full paint and stickershock graphics on a LOKI M2550 Blue Motor...

Hutto TX Jan 2012.

HPR in Hutto??? I just moved back to MD from Hutto this time last year.

bill2654 · Jan 21, 2012

Here is my scratch built Nike Hercules. Aerotech 29mm H180 motor.

gdjsky01 · Jan 21, 2012

:surprised:

oint:

:clap:

NICE

sodmeister · Jan 22, 2012

gdjsky01 said:
:surprised:
oint:oint:oint:oint::clap:

NICE

oint:

I know I know.........don`t you just love that !!

Very impressive....and scratch yet....and on an H !!

Paul t

Rocketman248 · Jan 29, 2012

1. My Ultimate Wildman on a Pro75 6G M2045BS. Flew to 8,646ft.

2. My Extreme Darkstar on a Pro54 6GXL L935IM. Flew to 7,452ft.

Rocketman248 · Jan 31, 2012

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rocketguy101 · Jan 31, 2012

Last Saturday was an absolute fantastic day to launch and very rare in Oklahoma--NO WIND!!!!

Here are two of mine...the first my clone 1/100th scale Saturn 1B on a D12--I finished it back in 2009 but the weather (and burn bans) did not cooperate until Saturday.

The second is a scratch built I call "Preparation H" because it is designed to fly up to "G" motors. This is it's maiden flight on an F20...