Attending the MARS Fall Finale. So far, five up, all five down, and five successful retrievals with trivial damage. Much better than my last launch day. The wind was high, so we kept the rockets low.
- A scratcher I call Dispensable on a B6. Perfect flight.
- A Fliskits Frick-n-Frack on a C6 to an A8. Arced way over before staging, and any "normal" sustainer would have land sharked, but Frack just sort of fell out of the air.
- An Ester Solar Flare modded for an 18 mm sustainer motor on a C6 to A8 again. The launch lugs were a little out of spec and rubbed on the rod. I added some powdered graphite and it felt OK. But it strained to climb the rod, came off very slow with a fraction of a second's burn before staging. I don't know how it managed to fare so well, but the only damage was the glue joint in the two piece nose cone.
- Another scratcher, Justin Time, that I threw together in the last few days to bring here. At the last moment I realized that I had used the same non spec launch lug stock as on the Solar Flare, so I scrubbed it.
- An Apogee Slo-Mo on a D16. Perfect flight.
- Dispensable again, on a C6. Perfect flight, but a loooong walk.
Waiting now for the pot luck supper. We brought too much baked ziti.