Re: October Launch
- From: "Niall Oswald (via Google)" <niall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Oct 2005 17:01:30 -0700
Mike Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:01:31 GMT, Mike Roberts
> <mike.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geoff Seabrook and all the FAI folks
> turned up and flew a stack of competition rockets rounding off with
> Nigel Bathe and reigning World Champ Mike Francies showing of their
> amazing radio controlled boost gliders.
Those were incredible - beautifully made and a pleasure to watch fly.
Clearly in the hands of very skilled R/C pilots!
> Mike Proctor got the "closest to the club sec's car" award with the
> bottom half of his Mean machine ;0).
I think that was actually Rebecca's Mean Machine! Mike had a pretty
impressive CATO too today.
> Kevin Offley had the crowd on it's toes with his "interesting" multi
> stage rocket.
The three stages all lit (which was good). The flight was a little
unstable until the final stage (which was less good). The final stage
lit pointing at the ground (which was bad - for the rocket at least!)
> On the HPR range we had more hybrid action than we usually see at EARS
> thanks to Uncle Bob's Rocket Shop making their first and very welcome
> visit to EARS. Uncle Bob's ministrations saw 4 hypertek launches with
> the minimum of fuss. The flights all went off flawlessy with recovery
> proving to be tricker than normal for Michael Clarke and Richard
> Parkin. Congratulations to commitee member Michael who certed L2 on a
> HT J. Unfortunately he suffered a main 'chute deployment failure on
> his second HT lob. The rocket didnt appear to be too damaged and
> should be flying again soon. Richard had a seperation problem with the
> motor coming in at speed finishing off the days flying with a spot of
> shovel / bin bag recovery.
Richard's spack was quite impressive, quite a thud on that one :-) On
the positive side, it looks like with a bit of new tube the booster
section will fly again (the fins were fine), the upper section
recovered no problem. Nice boost Richard!
Congrats to Mike on the L2, very nice flight.
> The solid guys werent to be outdone with Rod Stephenson flying his
> Amraam, Chris Eilbeck capturing more of his amazing in flight video
> with a cracking I540 lob.
The I540 is becoming *the* motor of choice! Rod's AMRAAM had a bit of a
delayed ignition, so I missed it with the camera, but the sound of the
motor echoing back and forth off the countryside made up for it! Oh,
and the violent acceleration and big flame too :-)
> Chris Bishop lobbed his Avenger for a lovely flight on a K570
Very nicely done, beautiful smooth ascent on that one.
> and Niall Oswald managed to sneak in a flight on an AT blue thunder H > late on.
Many many thanks to Chris Eilbeck for sorting me out with a motor, and
a cracking little motor it was too :-) 1475ft, 11G off the pad and that
rarely-seen blue flame. Just what I needed after failing to get my WCH
hybrid motor off the pad earlier :-(
Perfectly timed recovery and not too long a walk made it even better.
Despite having been armed and on the pad for most of the afternoon (on
and off) the NiMH PP3 on the G-Wiz MC seemed to have no issues.
Chris Bohin's WCH I110 flight was very nice, in a 4" rocket the takeoff
was majestic - I think his rocket reached about 1300ft with a 4-5
second burn, very nice flight. It was his first hybrid, first
electronic/2-stage deployment - many firsts. Very well done there
Chris!
I'll get my photos up in due course, I got a fair number of the flights
today, including some decent ones of mine for once :-)
Niall
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