Here's a start.
Marks 10" Mercury Redstone on a EX N3300. Flawless flight!
I don't know who's this one is, but it had a great flight too. Jihad This
Next up is Derek's (Deeroc) absolutely beautiful flight of a "Chameleon Motor" These pictures are from one flight.
Blue flame right?
Now it is White
The rocket came back with a rather major 8-10" zipper and will need some repairing
Super cool Nike Smoke on a Blue
Mark's Second flight (The happier photos at least)
Next up is Dave's (Caveduck) maiden flight of his 5.5" V2. He couldn't decide on a motor, so Kenny and I chose him a nice K360 (CTI 3G White 1281Ns)
Lastly my two
day flights.
The first was a 3 grain 75mm Ex motor which was designed to be a Blue motor, but with a lot white smoke. I think it turned out well.
Unfortunately we did blow the nozzle up at the end of the burn, kind of a cool picture.
Last flight for me of weekend was an unexpected one. Because of the zipper in Derek's Green Aerobee he can't fly the 5 grain 98mm N that he was planning...So I was willing to take one for the team and fly it for him (what a nice guy right?) So I prepped the fat Squat rocket for its most powerful motor yet.
The motor burn went very well...but that was all that went well. At motor burnout the nose separated and pulled the chute out at well above 400mph. Alas the chute stripped clean off and you can imagine the rest. The heavily weighed nosecone streamlined in and dragged the body straight into the ground. The nosecone is one of the most expensive parts and it lived completely undamaged along with the motor case. 120" parachute, Garmin Astro, RRC3, RRC2 Classic and the body section are totaled. :cry::cry::cry: Three scenarios for failure, Pressure separation (it was the biggest motor and fastest flight), Drag separation (Very heavy nosecone and fastest flight may have overcome the large frontal area) and lastly early ejection (Both charges were fired, but I doubt this caused the separation). Oh well...
One other flight to mention was on Saturday night. I won't forget this one, and I will be telling this story for a while.
Derek (the motor man) was planning on showing up Saturday afternoon so we can get my "Blue Lightning" flight on the night, so I prepped everything for the rocket so that when he got there he could hand me the motor, I put it in the rocket, and we walk to the flight line. However due to traffic he decided to just go straight to the hotel and come to the lakebed early in the morning. So I had a completely prepped rocket. Well that night while we were sitting around the fire someone asked why I didn't fly the rocket I had prepped. I said that it was because I didn't have a motor. Well... Robert (AiRobert) had an answer to that problem. A M1700 that he had whipped up and because of the wind Saturday Mark didn't fly it. Well everyone agreed that I needed to man up and fly the M1700. Right now! Like, at night. And that if I was really serious about having the rocket ready to go, I would do it. Everyone around agreed and Mark went to ask the club President what the Night waiver would take, "Anything under 7,000ft till 10pm" and that was all we needed to hear and everyone started grabbing every light source they could find, including Mark who took off the LED strips off his night flight RC airplane and we got it decked out in about 30 minutes! And we did it! And got it back! 3,800ft of pure awesome. But others can contest that I was extremely nervous for this flight, perhaps more than any flight previous (Project60k might be the only one). I have never seen a M motor at night and probably won't for a while. But it was incredible! INCREDIBLE!
I want to thank Mark and Marian, all of the Perry's, Kenny and Dave, Tim, Robert, Roy, Derek, and anyone else who was out there I am forgetting. This was my first launch with Tripoli Vegas and I know I will be coming back in the future! I have more pictures that I will upload later.
Thanks
