Model Forum / General / Rockets / May 2007

Lots of fun today. High Schoolers put up about 60 different rockets, adults
had maybe 10 of their own. Lots of Estes Scissor Wings and all flew
perfectly.  had some scratch builds too including a 5 engine cluster Big
Daddy that self-destructed in flight. It looked like those old NASA videos
of the Atlas ICBM failing during flight.  Last rocket of the day was a
scratch built 6 engine D cluster. All lit perfectly unfortunately the
recovery failed and the rocket became a lawn Dart from about 2000 feet. All
in all, a good day for rockets ...no wind and no clouds.  Many thanks to all
who helped man the pits, including the Schulte Brothers, David Kucklish, and
JI. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Also, I might add that Daniel
Marbach earned his rocketry badge from the BSA today with three very
excellent flights of his Estes bashed kit.  Total flight count is unclear at
this point but I'm certain it was well over 120 flight with only 5 failures.

The Vaughn Brothers QuadCon launcher continues to work very well, the
RocketVision Quadpod functions as good as the day they donated it to us and
the Black Shy rail proved its worth on a couple of the bigger boys.