edwardw
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I just had to mention something about our launch Saturday. Northern Colorado Rocketry (NCR) had a great day. We had 2 L1 certs, 1 L2 cert and 3 L3 cert attempts (2 successful). It was a great day for everyone.
We also had one team complete the Mars Lander Challenge - on their first try! I was impressed.
On the L3 certs, congrats to Ken Swank and Steve Mashburn (TRA prefect, and no he didn't sign his own sheet
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Condolences to Mike Bennett
Dang forward closures.
Ken Swank flew his L3 attempt to about 5K first for a great flight. He used an AMW case and White Wolf propellant.
Next was Mike Bennett on his minimum diameter rocket with a AMW Red Rhino combo. His was about 3k up when the forward closure let go and decided to create some confetti.
A sad moment. He recovered the nosecone, electronics but his chute floated away on a thermal. His fincan with the casing came down about 10 feet from a pad with a warning buzzzzzz and whump.
Last was Steve Mashburns L3 on an AMW 1480 RR. A nice flight to 4800 and some whistling. Congrats.
Chips Anderson certed L1/L2 same rocket with an H153 and J285 - Congrats!
All in all we had a great day and it was fun to watch all the rockets go off.
Edward
We also had one team complete the Mars Lander Challenge - on their first try! I was impressed.
On the L3 certs, congrats to Ken Swank and Steve Mashburn (TRA prefect, and no he didn't sign his own sheet
Condolences to Mike Bennett
Ken Swank flew his L3 attempt to about 5K first for a great flight. He used an AMW case and White Wolf propellant.
Next was Mike Bennett on his minimum diameter rocket with a AMW Red Rhino combo. His was about 3k up when the forward closure let go and decided to create some confetti.
Last was Steve Mashburns L3 on an AMW 1480 RR. A nice flight to 4800 and some whistling. Congrats.
Chips Anderson certed L1/L2 same rocket with an H153 and J285 - Congrats!
All in all we had a great day and it was fun to watch all the rockets go off.
Edward