Official numbers from Phil who is our flight statistics guru:
National Museum of the United States Air Force:
- The museum gave away all 750 rockets to be built at their special event on July 20th.
- The Wright Stuff Rocketeers (NAR 703) were there to assist with launching these rockets. Other volunteers were trained ahead of time to assist with the building of the 750 Astra IIIs.
- The Air Force Base imposed a 500 foot ceiling for all rockets.
- 662 (updated from 622) rockets flown. This includes some rockets flown by club members.
- The museum supplied 750 Estes B6-4 motors for us to use. Some children went out to the launch area, but did not launch their rockets as they did not want to lose them. Other people built the rockets and then stayed inside the museum and never came out to the pads (it was over 90 and humid).
- 445 (updated from 420) of the flyers stated that they had never flown a rocket before.
- We had approximately 20 club members at the museum to support this launch. Fantastic support from our club members!
- We will document the process we used and share it with NAR. We really improved on what we have done in the past and kept the lines moving. At our next Tuesday night meeting we will discuss what went well and what can be improved.
Motors used at the museum:
A: 5
B: 595
C: 17
D: 3
E: 0
F: 2
NOTE: The Wright Stuff Rocketeers have helped at least 902 people launch their first rocket so far this year!
We also flew 7 Demo flights with the Estes 1/200th scale Saturn V.
We made the local news:
https://www.wdtn.com/news/national-...orates-anniversary-of-apollo-11-moon-landing/
PS. And some of us spent the next day at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoneta doing demonstration flights for the visitors up there. Busy, busy (and hot) weekend for the club.