As soon as I have the final stats for the event I will post them here and to various Facebook groups, while I don't think we broke last years record for number of flights we didn't miss it by much (less than 10 best guess) as my last count was 650ish flight at about 1.5 hours before we closed the range for the final time of the event. We had a fair number of flights after my count so we might or might not have hit the 682 mark of last year.
Camping...well lets just say the camping areas and day use areas were full, mostly full by Thursday night...and all full by Friday night, we even had to invent some overflow areas for people to be.
The field, the conditions this year were especially challenging since we had to limit traffic on the freshly planted fields, but the farmer did allow us access (he could have said no), we had 3 corn fields instead of 1 to the north and east, the south west circle had knee to waist high buckwheat planted on it and the south circle was planted in chili beans normally all of which is nice smooth low cut sod.....
To all of the volunteers who stepped up to help take down the range and wipe down and clean the rails thank you! With your help and the incremental tear down we started throughout Monday it was only 2 hours from the final flight to the time I pulled out of the parking area headed home.
The Wilson F/X launch controller....a HUGE shout out to Wilson F/X we few issues with the unit (all were actually cable crimps, one on a set of leads and one on a Anderson Power Pole connector), these were the first time these units had ever been used (NEW) and so a few little things like that are expected, however we caught all of them before the range was running and had ZERO downtime due to the system our system is currently two 4 pad wireless boxes, a 8 pad wire less box, and the 64X pad wireless controller. Our power supplies are Lead Acid type jumper packs (stanley being one brand) as they have built in chargers and a case the batteries are also replaceable all we do is cut off the alligator clips and put on an Anderson Power Pole connector.
To our many sponsor YOU GUYS AND GALS ROCK! Thanks to our sponsors SodBlaster V was a huge success!
Tinder Rocketry
Discount Rocketry
Dragon Rocketry
Front Range Rocket Recovery
Stickershock23 (so much drama and it was all USPS's fault, but the goods arrived on the Saturday of the event...whew!)
Eggtimer Rocketry
Missleworks
SBR Fusion Rockets
Aerospace Specialty Products
Additive Aerospace
OneBadHawk Recovery
Fliskits
MadCow Rocketry
Top Flight Recovery
Loc Precision
Lab Rat Rocketry
Loni's Sign Service
Basin Sod & Gravel
a number of these sponsors have been sponsors of Sod Blaster since the beginning to those we give additional thanks for being with us all these years and we hope for many more.
and of course NAR and TRA for being well... the national organizations we are chartered to!