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MikeS.
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2008-07-13 at 3:37 pm #40348
MikeSModeratorWhat a great launch. Started slow but built up steam fast.
Thanks to everyone that showed to make it a wonderful day.Success: Pawnee Arrow air started one motor. Thats One
Better than last time. Swift 7.4 flew for the first time. Learned
much from other flyers.Crunch Time: EZI-65 ejection charge toooo small. Hit the
ground at neck breaking speed. Zipper on Salvage One.
Swift 4.0 crashed and burned. (Motor burn through)Lessons Learned: Ignitor Construction. Thor X Construction.
(I am getting ready to build one) Fly fewer at a launch. (I have
learned that before) Rocket People Are Great People.Did not get as many pictures as I wanted. My Swift landed some
distance away. It has an Extra big chute to protect against fin damage.The Windmill is gone !!!!!! And they did not even check with Us first.
2008-07-13 at 3:54 pm #48559
Doug GerrardParticipantOK fess up… Who launched the windmill and what motor did you use?
2008-07-13 at 4:31 pm #48560
Jeffrey Joe HintonModeratorActually, might have been Aliens – the Beyond Earth guys once used (abused) our site.
2008-07-13 at 5:24 pm #48561
Warren B. MusselmanModeratorThe windmill is gone? Bet you it was metal salvage thieves…
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2008-07-13 at 9:32 pm #48562Art Hoag
ParticipantNo rockets ever landed on the windmill and now they can’t 😥
2008-07-13 at 11:34 pm #48563
Jeffrey Joe HintonModeratorPatty Netherton wins closest to the windmill – her rocket landed in the tank, fortunately frozen at the time. I can remember climbing up on that structure and some of the others to get a better look around for missing rockets. But lost or missing rockets often turn up after the aliens are done with ’em. A Tiny Pterodactyl came home with me yesterday that someone found while out walking around. Let me know if it’s yours. And maybe the windmill will come back with new solar-powered turbines attached.
2008-07-14 at 1:51 am #48564edward
ModeratorMan! That windmill was awesome for hunting pronghorn. You’d climb up and the little guys rarely look above 6′ so you’d be able to get much closer than normal – plenty close for a bow.
Edward
2008-07-14 at 5:38 am #48565Art Hoag
ParticipantLets just hope they don’t replace that one windmill with a wind farm, that would just suck! Knocking on wood.
Art
2008-07-14 at 2:34 pm #48558new2hpr
ParticipantI’m guessing that Warren’s right. With the cost of metals skyrocketing with everything else, it wouldn’t take someone very long with a sawzall to fill their pickup.
Ken
2008-07-14 at 3:34 pm #48566edward
ModeratorI’m guessing the windmill was still in use for cattle…it did have a wagon wheel pattern of trails around it.
Edward
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