Launch volunteers

[Ed Dawson]

Looks like we’re on for a launch this weekend.

Any volunteers to tow the trailer (or even to push the buttons)?

[Chris LaPanse]

I’ll do some button pushing. I don’t have a tow-capable vehicle though, so I can’t help with the trailer.

[AdrianParticipant]

I’d like to, but the only way I can attend this time is if I can get back to Highlands Ranch by 2:30, so I’ll need to leave by noon. I have an H altitude shot I’m going to try, so I’ll try to arrive with my rocket ready to go.

[BEAR]

I can tow the trailer. It is only a little bit out of the way. What time do you want it there?

[AdrianParticipant]

By the way, it looks like the volunteer sheet on the web site is still for last year. I’m up for some volunteer duty for this year’s MHM once that starts getting coordinated.

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

I’m there for LCO duty… have some grandkids with me flying Alphas.

Warren

[BEAR]

I made a couple of Alphas from spare parts in range box so that my grandson could use them in his science fair project. He will be with me Saturday flying those rockets. (I think the newest part is more than 40 years old, but I found the instructions and patterns on the internet and then I found them in my old range box also.) We can compare notes. the last time I flew Alphas was Dec. 31, 2009 inside the Houston Astrodome. 6 of them simultaneously with 6 other rockets from Centuri Engineering also being flown. 12 rockets at the same time from the goal lines and chutes coming down over the 50 yard line. Vern Estes was with me and Leroy Piester was at the other end of the feild. (Pardon me for boring you as I remember. After that was an Estes S-V and we modified it to take a “D” Engine instead of the cluster of three. It was the first time a “D” had been used inthat rocket. Mr. Estes made some custom “D’s” for us and we launched it on a semi-scale gantry similar to what they had on Pad 39 at the Cape. Ejection charge went off at 190′. The ceiling was 208′. We also lost a Centuri “big” Little Joe II in the rafters on a test flight. It just cleared the girders but the ejection charge went off and sent the capsule and escape tower through an opening and wrapped the shock cord. It was up there for years.)

[Jeffrey Joe HintonModerator]

Bear, We’re aiming for Range and Waiver ready at 9, so if you and the trailer can get there between eight and eight-thirty, we should be good to get set up in style. Thanks. Are you up for towing both ways? Means a long day of it. Should be awesome weather on Saturday. Thanks.

[BEAR]

Joe, I think I can. My wife will be in Denver so time constraints should not really be there. Sign me up

[Bret PackardParticipant]

Happy to LCO or RSO as needed.

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