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The day started at 5:30PM PDT as my phone alarm went off. As usual I contemplated being just too tired or not feeling well and going back to bed. I always do that. Especially on Saturday mornings. Especially when I know by 10am it'll be touching about 30C... out in the high desert and by 11AM 35. Heat and me don't like each other. I can always put more clothes on, but I can only take so many off before I get arrested. However I also know I'd feel like a heel later in the day. And why build em' if you ain't gonna launch them?
Car was packed the night before. Just grab a hat, glasses, and POOF, 2 hours and 10 minutes later I pulled up next to the MDARS equipment trailer. Weather other than being hot, was perfect! Virtually no wind! None. Not even a little to help with evaporative cooling.
First up: My "Stand (WAY) Off Scale" scratch built British Redtop Missile.
Build thread here:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...pad-style-build-the-redtop-aa-missile.173495/
Even though I should not have been, I was still nervous. People commented on how great it looked and I knew, if I planted it, they all be groaning even if I took it in stride. I was so nervous I forgot to put a Jolly Logic Alt One in it.
Loaded with an Estes F50-6 blue thunder motor. On my Rockwell Jack Stand launcher with rail. A Jolly Logic Chute Release set for 400'
MDARS-20220924-007.jpg by Jeffrey Gortatowsky, on Flickr
Weeeeeeee off we go! TOTALLY STRAIGHT. Not even a spin! The chute slipped out of the bundle at apogee. Which was a good thing. With almost no wind it came back very close! Interestly, or more to the point, scarey, the Chute Release still had the pin attached. That could be because there was no tension to pop it out... could be.
MDARS-20220924-017-2.jpg by Jeffrey Gortatowsky, on Flickr
Very Very Happy! Next flight maybe something smokey.
Car was packed the night before. Just grab a hat, glasses, and POOF, 2 hours and 10 minutes later I pulled up next to the MDARS equipment trailer. Weather other than being hot, was perfect! Virtually no wind! None. Not even a little to help with evaporative cooling.
First up: My "Stand (WAY) Off Scale" scratch built British Redtop Missile.
Build thread here:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...pad-style-build-the-redtop-aa-missile.173495/
Even though I should not have been, I was still nervous. People commented on how great it looked and I knew, if I planted it, they all be groaning even if I took it in stride. I was so nervous I forgot to put a Jolly Logic Alt One in it.
Loaded with an Estes F50-6 blue thunder motor. On my Rockwell Jack Stand launcher with rail. A Jolly Logic Chute Release set for 400'
MDARS-20220924-007.jpg by Jeffrey Gortatowsky, on Flickr
Weeeeeeee off we go! TOTALLY STRAIGHT. Not even a spin! The chute slipped out of the bundle at apogee. Which was a good thing. With almost no wind it came back very close! Interestly, or more to the point, scarey, the Chute Release still had the pin attached. That could be because there was no tension to pop it out... could be.
MDARS-20220924-017-2.jpg by Jeffrey Gortatowsky, on Flickr
Very Very Happy! Next flight maybe something smokey.
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