Veterans Day celebrations launching rockets with the crew and two flight videos
Happy Veterans Day to all service members. Go Army! Roger ordered the Armstrong costume in September and was shipped back and forth from China several times. He got a refund then received the costume a week after Halloween, so he put it to good use. We're having a week of low winds. It seems like all of the holidays have been excellent flying events. Hopefully this will continue through Thanksgiving (and no hurricanes).
I deducted a point from the Astrocam because the streamer didn't fully deploy. This created quite the tumultuous flight video. I reduced the sound to 10% but is still rather noisy. I was sad to see the Orbital Transport land on the gym (and just barely). Everytime I ask for the park manager, they tell me he's on vacation (for the past year). I disparaged the rocket gods for the loss of the OT. They obviously accepted the sacrifice and brought Ron L's Mustang back to us. His scratch 2-stage however may have ended up in Pearl Harbor. I avoided using the Flightsketch altimeter because I'm down to two and hasn't been any in stock for a couple months.
Had the best flight on the Big Daddy. I have no comment on the Nike Smoke. The Diamondback also performed well on the composite despite the altimeter. What I think happened is that the boost caused the plastic holder to break. We looked all over for it until I found it while packing up. It would have been more amazing if it had actually landed in my cart.
Gary's Twinsee decided to go in different directions in a straight line. One headed toward Farrington highway and the other landed in a tree. While looking for the altimeter, we found three old baseballs (which is strange because the park lawnmower usually turns them into pulp). Gary tried to knock the glider out of the tree with a baseball but was unsuccessful. I woulda helped but had a doctor's appointment. Maybe some kid will find it and be inspired...
0:00 Intro
0:18 Astrocam 4pts
1:12 Flight video
1:59 Orbital Transport 4pts
2:54 Big Daddy 602ft 6pts
4:26 Nike Smoke boosted 0pts
4:45 Diamondback 684ft 6pts
6:22 Expedition 5pts
7:28 Flight video
8:38 Mike's DRM
9:14 Gary's MX Eclipse
9:38 Mike's Patriot Missile
10:16 Gary's Twinsee
10:58 Ron's Omega
12:04 Mike's Minion
12:28 Gary's Flicks Shuttle
12:57 Gary's Hyperion
13:35 Ron's Goddard B6-4
13:53 Gary's MX Flex Wing
14:25 Ron's Goddard C6-7
14:52 Ron's Mustang
15:30 Gary trying to deploy the Flex Wing
15:47 Gary's MX Superoc
16:09 Ron's Scratch 2-stage
16:33 Gary's MX 2X4
16:47 Total 25pts + 10pts = 35pts