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Too Blue Two. A PML Ariel kit configured with a 35 mm camera. My first High Power rocket. Flew it's tenth anniversary flight
at Rocstock 21 on a I211 to close out a decade of flights with great success.
Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights:24
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Dynacom Python: Three inch diameter with 54mm mount. Very high performance. Will do 11,000 feet on a K700. Dynacom kits
are the best. Flight status: Still flying. Number of flights: 12
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Roc Monster: Scratch built 5.5" diameter cluster rocket with central 38mm and four 29mm outboards. Great airstarts.
Crashed twice and repaired. Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights:16
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Loc V2: My first very large rocket. Modified after crashing at LDRS in Utah to take electronics and K700 motor. Flight
Status: Still flying. Number of flights:21
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PML 1/4 scale Patriot: A very beautiful rocket. With the 29mm motor mount, it rarely made it up higher than 1000 feet.
It zippered badly on two sides during last flight. I saved the fins and I will rebuild it one day. Flight status:Dead.
Number of flights:13
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Bull Pup: A Public Enemy kit with major fiberglass reinforcement.. Crashed on third flight due to burned shock line. Looks
good, flys squirrelly. Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights: 7
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Loc Graduator: My second high power kit and most durable. Has never been damaged. Flight Status: Still flying. Number of
flights: 31
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Dynacom V2: 5" diameter, recently modified to house electronics. A stupendous flyer on a K550. Now painted deep red
all over. Flying status: Still flying. Number of flights:19
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Special K: Stratch built 4" diameter. Weighs in at 6.8 pounds empty and will take a K560 75mm motor. Two parachute
chambers allows for the drogue and main to exit from same opening. Will do 10,000 feet on K560. This picture is of a test
flight using a 75mm Skidmark motor. Very Sparky. Flight status: Still flying. Number of flights: 7
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Mr Skeeter: Upscale Mosquito. Fun to fly on 29 mm motors. Flying status: Retired. Number of flights:19
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Black Sky Optimal 65: My Level Two rocket. Augered in due to electronics failure. I still have the fin can though. Flight
Status: Dead. Number of flights: 16
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Big Dumb Rocket: Eight inches in diameter and can carry a 8mm video camera. All fiberglass airframe, fins, and nosecone with
98mm central motor and three 38mm outboards. Weighs between 65 and 95 pounds depending on configuration and motors. Recently
modified to three 54mm outboard motor tubes. Flight status: Temporarily destroyed in December of 2003. Number of flights:
9
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PML Explorer: Fast Eddy. This rocket has been abused with Blue Thunder motors and has survived. Nearly killed when it was
run over by a car on the lake bed as it was floating in on parachute. Flight Status: Being refurbished. Number of flights:
17
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Space Mouse: Minimum diameter 54mm rocket designed to capture the K altitude record. Held record at 20,274 feet for two years.
It made the record on a K250 thanks to Rick O'Neil. Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights: 2
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Lunar Express Jr: Great PML kit. Flys like an angel. Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights: 9
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Big Purple: Scratch built 6" diameter with 75 mm motor mount. Can be configured to carry a video camera. Beautiful flights
on L1120s and M1315s. Flight status: Still flying. Number of flights: 5
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Estes V2: An old Estes kit modified with a 29mm motor mount and fiber glassed. The first of my three V2s. Flys great on
G and H motors. Flight Status: Semi-retired. Number of flights: 15
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PML Callisto/Nite flyer: A great sport rocket turned night flyer with the addition of strobes, LEDs, and light sticks over
the years. Numerous zippers of the brittle phenolic have shortened it with time and it is now about ready to be refurbished.
Flying status: Semi-Retired. Number of flights:17
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Space Death: Nibbles' second rocket ship. Lighter, faster, cheaper to fly. Lifted off June of 2004 on maiden flight. With
a perfect boost phase and the airstarts firing right on time, the flight rocketed Nibbles to a successful sub orbital flight
and a perfect stand up landing. Flight two-June 2005. Another great flight.
Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights: 3
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Nibbles the world famous Astro cat takes to the sky for his maiden flight. Powered by a central M1315, it airstarted 2-K1250s,
2-K625s, 2-J350s, and 2-I284s. With two onboard cameras, the whole dynamic flight was captured on video. The four fins are
detachable for ease of transport.
Second flight June 12, 2003. Great flight except for the airstart timer not detecting launch until after the main chute
came out. It was quite a show with all four sets of airstarts firing in sequence at less than a 1000 feet. Flight Status:
Semi retired. Number of flights: 2
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Pteradactyl Jr.: PML kit that suffered an early lake stake. On repair, it gained some body length and dual deployment capability.
Flight Status: Still flying. Number of flights:14
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Bigger Purple: Maiden flight at Springfest 2002. Incredible flight to 16,763 feet on L1120 to a K560. Less than optimal
recovery when apogee charge failed to eject drogue. Ballistic flight down to 500 feet when main blew. Amazingly, very little
damage was inflicted. Second flight at XPRS at Black Rock 2002--25,244 feet. Black Rock 2004--22,614 feet Number of flights:3
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Gloomis-- A 2" rocket made from a fly rod packaging tube. Used spare parts, Acme fin can, Aeropac retainer.
Flight status: Still flying Number of flights: 15
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Space Mouse 3 is a three stage mimimum diameter that staged an M1315 to a K700 to a J570. The second flight in 2005 had it
perform perfectly until half way through the third stage burn when the sustainer went unstable and failed to gain anymore
altitude after hitting mach 2. All parts recovered in good condition. Sustainer-22,000 ft. Second stage booster coasted
to 25,000 feet. Fight Status:Still flying. Numger of flights-2
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