July 12 Launch - Northern Colorado Rocketry

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July 13, 2008 at 3:37 pm #40348
MikeS
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What 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.

http://www.putfile.com/pic/8425379
July 13, 2008 at 3:54 pm #48559
Doug Gerrard
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OK fess up… Who launched the windmill and what motor did you use?
July 13, 2008 at 4:31 pm #48560
Jeffrey Joe Hinton
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Actually, might have been Aliens – the Beyond Earth guys once used (abused) our site.
July 13, 2008 at 5:24 pm #48561
Warren B. Musselman
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The windmill is gone? Bet you it was metal salvage thieves…

W
July 13, 2008 at 9:32 pm #48562
Art Hoag
Participant
No rockets ever landed on the windmill and now they can’t 😥
July 13, 2008 at 11:34 pm #48563
Jeffrey Joe Hinton
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Patty 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.
July 14, 2008 at 1:51 am #48564
edward
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Man! 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
July 14, 2008 at 5:38 am #48565
Art Hoag
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Lets just hope they don’t replace that one windmill with a wind farm, that would just suck! Knocking on wood.

Art
July 14, 2008 at 2:34 pm #48558
new2hpr
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I’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
July 14, 2008 at 3:34 pm #48566
edward
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I’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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