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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 |

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| In the May 2009 issue of Extreme Rocketry! |
5/6/09 - Holy cow! I'm
getting famous!
Last month, I had a small picture
in Extreme Rocketry - me and my small rockets collection, at XPRS 2008.
This month, (May 2009), I have
a full-page picture of me with the Bottle Rocket in the Featured Projects page of Extreme Rocketry!!!
Here's what I'm currently working on (big breath):
- Finish the Pulsar - electronics bay.
- Repair the Magnum. Repair paint chips.
- Finish the Super Crayon - Mount the fin can.
- Repair the 54mm "Arrow" minimum diameter - Replace the electronics tray, and fly the Black Sky Electronics.
- Repair and complete my small rockets - Roton, Condor, and many others.
- Repair big HoJo - jacked loose fins.
- Complete the Estes E Interceptor.
- 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. Load with movie camera(s).
Upcoming Launch: Aeronaut, 7/31-8/2. Here are my goals for this launch:
- Foremost, fly 99K.
- Fly the H-Bomb on a 3-grain "H", then a 6-grain H300, then an I200!.
- Fly the F-Bomb on an F40-10. If it survives that...<hehehe>
- Fly the Wahoo on a J420, then a J825!!.
- Fly the Pulsar on a J275.
- Fly the Tang on an I49.
- Fly the Big Daddy on an F20-7.
- Fly the (Red) Crayon on a G71R
- Fly the Glowworm on an E18-7, then an F24-10.
- Fly the Ariel at night on a Cesaroni sparky 3-grain (again).
- Fly the Ariel at night on a J90!!
- Fly the Io at night on a G76, or sparky "G".
- Fly the Enterprise 98 on a 3-grain M1845.
- Fly the Magnum on a K550 air-starting H97's.
* - Subject to high-altitude/weather/wind conditions.
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