Next O motor launch in twelve days!

[Bat-mite]

Lord willing. The rocket (Performer 200) is ready, the motor is made and I will be picking it up Saturday. Now we just need the weather to cooperate on 2/13!

Rocket was purchased from Performance Hobbies, motor manufactured by Scott S. of MDRA, recovery harnessed by the one and only @Onebadhawk , parachutes by the RocketMan. It'll have an Altus Metrum EasyMini as main altimeter, RRC3 back-up.

Details of the build and the last O motor launch are here: https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/my-quest-for-an-o-motor-launch.152184/

Come on out to MDRA if you are close enough and the weather is good on 2/13.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373653/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4


Good luck with your launch, take pictures and video.

 

[SILVERFOX]

Was already looking forward to the 13th, Now I am really pumped! Here's hoping the fickle Eastern Shore Weather is good to us. Best of luck for a perfect launch and recovery.

 

[Bat-mite]

Was already looking forward to the 13th, Now I am really pumped! Here's hoping the fickle Eastern Shore Weather is good to us. Best of luck for a perfect launch and recovery.

Thanks!

 

[Nathan]

On your original post you said 2/13 which is Sunday and you normally attend MDRA on Saturdays. Did you mean Saturday 2/12?

 

[Bat-mite]

On your original post you said 2/13 which is Sunday and you normally attend MDRA on Saturdays. Did you mean Saturday 2/12?

Indeed. Woops.

 

[Bat-mite]

The motor is in the rocket and everything is ready to go for Saturday. High of 58, mostly sunny, a little breezy (10 MPH). Looking doable.

 

[tOD]

The motor is in the rocket and everything is ready to go for Saturday. High of 58, mostly sunny, a little breezy (10 MPH). Looking doable.

Good luck!
I would love to be there to see it, but doesn't look possible.
Looking forward to Red Glare, will you be flying it again?

 

[Nathan]

Indeed. Woops.

Great, I will also be there Saturday flying my Frenzy XXL on a wimpy little M motor.

 

[Antares JS]

Between this and the Nike Smoke drag race, I really hope I can make it. Unfortunately with NG-17 launching next weekend (the 19th) I don't know if it's going to be possible.

 

[Bat-mite]

Good luck!
I would love to be there to see it, but doesn't look possible.
Looking forward to Red Glare, will you be flying it again?

I sure hope so, but not any time soon. Maybe on an M in the fall.

 

[Bat-mite]

Google just reminded me that the maiden flight, also on an O, was exactly two years ago today.

 

[Bat-mite]

Ready to rock and roll!

 

[jmasterj]

I'm excited to see this today!

 

[mach_breaker]

same

 

[mccordmw]

Any news? We demand pictures and videos! Feed us!

 

[jnmiller]

Congrats on the successful flight!!

 

[Antares JS]

Saw it go up, didn’t see it come down. Was recovery successful?

 

[mach_breaker]

I saw it too. Amazing flight!

 

[jmasterj]

Saw it go up, didn’t see it come down. Was recovery successful?

I believe he told me it about a mile and a half east, but it was recovered successfully.

 

[Bat-mite]

Hello, all. Yes, it was recovered 1.5 miles away. Both deployments occurred and the main was out. I think that by the time the main deployed, it was already a mi away and no one could see it. When I get GPS downloaded, I'll post the output. Altitude beeped out at 13,969'.

 

[Bat-mite]

 

[Orien]

I kept this page open and kept refreshing it while at work hoping you'd post the video. It didn't disappoint! I highly recommend using earbuds and cranking the volume up.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

[NM]

 

[AstroAbaqus]

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That sound is simply amazing, congratulation for the incredible flight!

 

[Bat-mite]

Another friend of mine took this video.