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| Level 1 Flight at XPRS - Black Rock - Sept 2003 |
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Eventually I built a 4" minimum diameter rocket to fly for my Level 3 attempt. The first try failed when a shock
cord untied, but my second try in August of 2006 was successful! The Enterprise 98 went to 17,000 feet, on an M2400
Blue Thunder motor, and recovered without damage.
| Enterprise 98 on M2400 at Black Rock. Level 3! |
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| My Small Rockets Collection |
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| L-R: Bottle Rocket, F-Bomb, Fat Boy, TCC, D-Dart, Big Daddy, V2, Cee-Ya, Baka, and others |
Here's what I'm currently working on (big breath):
- Repair Wahoo.
- Repair H-Bomb.
- Repair and complete my small rockets - Roton, Condor, Baka, and others.
- Complete the Estes E Interceptor. Decals and finishing touches.
- Build Mod-u-liptical. Building.
- Design and built 5.5" diam version of Estes Omega, powered by 54mm motors. My first high-power 2-stage bird!
- Design and build Estes-class Titan 4B ELINT. (Flies on 4 24mm motors, with the two strap-ons ejecting at burnout.)
- Build the "Flasher" - Next of four in a series of 38mm "Thunderbolt 38". This one is a f/g body,
f/g fin dual-deploy (eventual upper stage). Still being designed.
- Replace the Pterodactyl, a 3.9", 54mm rocket. Starting from scratch, after losing the original at Aeronaut
2006.
- Build the King Blobbo. Cluster?
- Build the 2-stage H-Bomb.
The next launch: November at TCC - 11/21/09. Here are my goals for this launch:
- Fly the Magnum on a J800 air-starting H97's.
- Fly the Ariel on an I566 VMax, with the cameras. Correct for spin.
- Fly the fixed Der V3 on an F12-5.
- Fly the Wahoo on a J570!!.
- Fly the Tang on a I245.
- Fly the F-Bomb on an E23-8.
- Fly the Glowworm on an F24-10, then an F39-12.
- Fly "Die Alpha, Die!" on a D21, then an E, then an F, then....
- Fly the Hornet on a J1299, or K1275!!
* - Subject to high-altitude/weather/wind conditions.
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