Elapid
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here are some pics of today's launch.
sheriff came out because the "baseball people" decided i was a distraction and so they called the cops...cop was very nice, had me launch one so he could "make sure what was going on here". i made it a smaller one so as not to scare him...
he went and talked to the people that called them out and they didn't look happy...
i'm going to have to do a letter to the editor, write a newspaper story, or get a news crew out to film a launch...these people need education is all...the baseball guy said "what you're doing is illegal!"
i told him, "rocketry is a 4H activity, it even says in the instructions to 'fly at school athletic fields".
he said, "you better pack up and get out of here or i'm calling the cops!"
i told him, "here's my cell phone, PLEASE call them! call the fire department also!"
i was pissed...i'm a pretty confrontational sort of human...but i kept my cool and went back and launched another rocket so he could call the cops and get it over with.
I got in a bunch of launches today, only climbed one fence, and only lost one rocket...the Machbuster, which i foolishly sent up on a ('wimpy') estes E9-6
it went straight up, spiralling a bit, but i lost sight of it...then i saw the chute deploy...then nothing...
PBBBBBBBBBBBBTTTTTTTTttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!
here's the pics!
sheriff came out because the "baseball people" decided i was a distraction and so they called the cops...cop was very nice, had me launch one so he could "make sure what was going on here". i made it a smaller one so as not to scare him...
he went and talked to the people that called them out and they didn't look happy...
i'm going to have to do a letter to the editor, write a newspaper story, or get a news crew out to film a launch...these people need education is all...the baseball guy said "what you're doing is illegal!"
i told him, "rocketry is a 4H activity, it even says in the instructions to 'fly at school athletic fields".
he said, "you better pack up and get out of here or i'm calling the cops!"
i told him, "here's my cell phone, PLEASE call them! call the fire department also!"
i was pissed...i'm a pretty confrontational sort of human...but i kept my cool and went back and launched another rocket so he could call the cops and get it over with.
I got in a bunch of launches today, only climbed one fence, and only lost one rocket...the Machbuster, which i foolishly sent up on a ('wimpy') estes E9-6
it went straight up, spiralling a bit, but i lost sight of it...then i saw the chute deploy...then nothing...
PBBBBBBBBBBBBTTTTTTTTttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!
here's the pics!