19th and 20th launch. ????? - Northern Colorado Rocketry

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July 22, 2008 at 6:42 pm #48679
Bruce R. Schaefer
Not to brag, but the launch of my Croc-a-Do Sunday morning was epic. I stuck the landing and the East German judges only gave me an 8.5

Joe, that was so cool! I’d never seen anyone ever do that. 😯
July 22, 2008 at 7:12 pm #48680
Tim Thomas
8) One of the great stories was about a flight that did not happen. Steve was there with his L3 bird ready for a L3 attempt. A large crowd of friends and family were there, and there was a lot of excitement in the air. Steve loaded the M2400 Blue Thunder (OH BABY!) and was ready to go to the pad. The Big Red Rocket was about to roar to life! Just one more quick call to ART……Then the bad news, up high the winds were almost nothing, but at ground level the winds were bad. Art advised for a no go! Steve did the right thing and called for a scrub. Boy, that let the air out of the balloon! After a long wait in 100+ weather, friends and family loaded up to go home. Steve began to take Big Red apart to head home. He found that in all the excitment, the Quick Link from the booster to the upper section was not tightened. Had he launched…. That would have been ugly!
July 22, 2008 at 9:27 pm #48681
Jeffrey Joe Hinton
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The rocket gods were with us for most of the flights. Denver Center reports are positive and we should expect our windows to happen again at Oktoberfest. Build ’em big, build ’em strong and let ’em fly!!!
July 22, 2008 at 9:35 pm #48682
Murdock
I got my pictures sorted and post, I put them a collection you can view here:
ActiveOptics on Flickr

Or by day:
7/19/2008

7/20/2008

Chris Murdock
July 23, 2008 at 1:12 am #48683
mule
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Excellent, Steve.
Greg, that was Scott Harless you were helping. Art called him on the two-way as we were heading back and recommended that he not fly because of the wind. Good advice. That would have been two beautiful paint jobs trashed.

I was standing there when Art called Scott. Talk about a bad feeling….. I don’t usually get involved in decisions but I joined in the discussion. I’m glad he gave it a good thinking over. I don’t think it’s one that can ever be second guessed!

How about you guys with the release ideas post up a thread on it? It’s far easier to find good tech talk in threads where you expect it. AND this is some good juicy reading!!!!
July 23, 2008 at 1:48 am #48684
Doug Gerrard
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How about you guys with the release ideas post up a thread on it?

The thread is started under Recovery help. Give me time, Give me time. I have the idea and working on the drawings. I’ll get it machined up and still have to do some testing. It’ll be several weeks before anything is ready for release.

Doug
July 23, 2008 at 2:34 pm #48685
mule
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How about you guys with the release ideas post up a thread on it?

The thread is started under Recovery help. Give me time, Give me time. I have the idea and working on the drawings. I’ll get it machined up and still have to do some testing. It’ll be several weeks before anything is ready for release.

Doug

Yeah, sorry about that. I had a brain fart and didn’t see the thread. 😳

You my friend are a wild man. I would love to be a bug on the wall in your machine shop….. I’m trying to remember what little I learned almost 20 years ago all while I’m making chips…. It’s pretty tough, but they have some good videos out these days.
Anyhow, I’ll be watching it……
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