Eat, sleep, and Fly
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Thank you all for putting on a great launch. Special thanks to Gus Piepinburg, for the help putting the darkstar onto the pad. Thanks also go to Jason Griffin, for all of helpful advice. Who won Mach madness?
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It truly was my pleasure too meet you and, your son!
The Farmageddon Mach Madness Contest was won by: John Olevich.
The Loraine D. Garrot Memorial Best Flight Award was won by: Corbin Stanfield.
Its about 30 minutes after midnight here in Malfunction Junction and, i just got home an hour ago........very tired....
I need to thank some folks for there generosity and, help this weekend......
The first being Eric Cayemberg and, the Cayemberg family for the generous gift of Cheese Curds! Yah der eh!
The Grimracer (please give my love to your lovely wife Shelia.).....for showing me my "New Toy"!:wave: We will setup a time and, place shortly to learn how too use it! Thanks Dude!
To Barry and Virgina McCabe for ALL their help with the registration and, field setup!
To Richard Cash the Event organizer for all that he endured trying to give everyone a top notch event!
To the University of Louisville and, University of Illinois for testing their USLI rockets at our event! YOU are ALWAYS welcome on our field! Now as i have too point out......"My Boys" laid down a SOLID number today that WILL be hard too beat!:neener:
"Lord, please prepare the competition for the butt whuppi'n they are about too receive!":rofl: Seriously though.....I look forward too seeing you all again in Huntsville in two weeks and, if you need anything or any help.....feel free to contact me.... we are ALL in this together and, its alot of fun!
Good Luck to you all!
To (halcro) Thanks for coming down! Glad you enjoyed the event.....it will only get better with time! We will talk more down the "Quarter Mile of Life!"
To ALL my fellow Board members and, volunteers......a VERY SPECIAL....Thank-you for your help and, sacrifices this weekend for everyone else's benefit!
To the great Rocket Clubs......SCAM and, QCRS.....our brothers and, sisters here in the Midwest for the equipment "Loan-age" and, help running/tearing it down!
To ALL of you whether you came for one day or all three.......Thank-you!
Were NOT Midwest Power......we've come along ways in such a short time due to alot of hard work behind the scenes......We are very happy too provide you with a fun/safe/friendly way to start off your year in style here in the Midwest......YOU hold the keys too our success....now and, in the future.
I may be the President of the club BUT, without you......without all the people around me....who utilize their incredible talents/skills.....
This could NEVER happen.
Thank you for the comments,....all the ideas/suggestions and, the phone calls/ emails telling me that you had a great time!
I was only a small part of that folks.....only a small part.....
Eat, Sleep..... It was a pleasure too meet you and, your son....I think he has a great future ahead of him.....as a matter of fact i know he does.....
Tonight i decided on the long drive home to screw those two "99 cent Special" Darkstar's together and, call them a two stagger......for MWP11!
We will talk down the road of life and, i will try to give Ben some practical/learned ideas on staging from my perspective.......until then....don't give up or feel frustrated.
Bless you all, i hope that you all arrive home safely and, we will talk again....in a field....somewhere down the road of life!
Thank-you....
Just an FYI, my dad doesent have an account on TRF, this in "the son".
Mega Darkstar P-8000
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Thanks for coming, Chuck! Glad you enjoyed the event... that N motor was absolutely breathtaking. Hope to see you down here again sometime!Outstanding pictures as usual, David! You guys run a great launch, thanks again!
The Woket will be back. Lol
Outstanding pictures as usual, David! You guys run a great launch, thanks again!
Griffin won the skid drag race, we settled on closest to 5K,he got 4900,I got 2567,(hell my rocket weighed in at 85#),the other 2 were around 6600 and 8800. Jason received his booty as promised, one ProX K535 RR. Congrats Jason!!
Nothing really , just a little seperation on the 2nd flight.Uh-oh, what happened?
That's all, folks. I've got more; they'll all go to ROCKETS Magazine with the forthcoming article.
A HUGE thank you to everyone who came and flew with us -- we had a great time and it was all because we had so many rockets to fly. Special thanks to Bill Murray for making the Class 3 paperwork possible for the Mega. Also thanks to the SCAM crew and the Illinois guys for helping us break down, and Quad Cities for their generosity in allowing us to borrow their equipment. Our vendors -- Wildman's, Wildman Kentucky, Red Arrow, and the Boy Scouts on food -- and of course our landowners: Chris Krok and the Garrott family, Jim Fields, the Plumlee family, Tom McFee, and everyone else in the area. Ash Grove is a fantastic field, and we are lucky to have it.
We'll see you all next year for Thunderstruck 5. It'll be my last one here in Indiana, so let's make it good!
I have video......unfortunately, it is FULL of "4 letter words"
I do not have the ability to edit the clip. I can send it to someone if they can "clean it up"
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