Return to Flight November 2016
Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 8:28PM Special “Catch-Up” Launch, Sunday 27 November , 2016.
This, as you know, was a special launch day to help make-up for all the lost Launch Weekends we missed this last season.
It turned out to be a really great day for flying. Everyone who brought out their expensive high-tech tracking devices ended up just throwing them in the back of their vehicles when they ended up not needing them because almost all the days launch’s only landed within short walks of the launch area. Anything that landed far away was because it flew that way.
Light shirts, sunshine and minimal breeze’s all day.
We were operating under a Fire Risk Protocol, No Sparky’s or any rocket we felt might be a fire risk. Charles and some of the others stood by during the launch’s to extinguish the few fires in the grass by kato’s and unstable ground impacts.
Ken Allen of Performance Hobbies, (the designated target area for out of control rockets)
Ken was there to meet our requests delivering orders and keeping us supplied with all our rocketry needs. Allen was pretty busy meeting our rocketry needs.
Ken’s Rocket Sales display had a couple near-miss’s by descending rockets but I was the one who actually landed against, and draped the “Arcas” chute across his trailer. Whoo-Hoo, 8 points.
Jasson Pettler had his grill up and running providing burgers and dogs for our consumption to meet our nutritional requirements to keep up with our launching frenzy.
ROCC Rocket Raffle season. I had a display of the rockets for our celebration of the reopening of the rocket season out for display with a few ticket sales for the December Launch Drawing.
Jolly Logic Chute Release System. (check NAR “Sport Rocketry” magazine articles)
(Sorry for the plug, but guys are asking if they are as good as the reports say.)
A lot of the Dual Deployment launchs are now being performed with the new product from Jolly Logic who first came out with the small Altitude recorder. This device is very user friendly and can deploy as high as 1000ft to as low as 100ft and fit in a BT60 sized body tube. We have been increasingly impressed with its performance. The most notable thing you have to change is how you wrap your chute bundle.
ROCC Club Membership covers the cost of maintaining the launch equipment, supplies and our association fees with the National Association of Rocketry and the Tripoli Rocketry Association plus covers our insurance.
Remember, any $20 membership (which can cover your whole family) comes with a ROCC Club “T” shirt. Check with Jason on styles and colors available.
LOST AND FOUND. We have:
Check the box for a few nose cones, a three,18mm motor cluster booster, and a few ect.
Pictures. Check the Gallery for launch photo’s. We see everyone is taking photo’s.
We see a lot of people taking pictures out there. Lets get them onto the ROCC Web Site into the Gallery section. Remember, for our embarrassment and your entertainment, any pictures you have from this or any recent launch that you would like to get posted on the web site for everyone to see, just contact Doc Russell at rocketrycarolina@gmail.com, or as some have done, pass it on a disk, memory card or flash drive. We can always get it back to you. That’s how I do it.
Sunday 27 November 2016.
We had 36 fliers , put up 109 flights burning a whopping 120 engines .
That includes all clusters and multi-stage flights
A’s= 11, B’s= 13, C’s= 25, D’s= 7, E’s= 9, F’s= 17, G’s= 11, H’s=1 5, I’s= 8, J’s= 3, K’s= 1.
(Remember, what I write is influenced by the penmanship/spelling of the writer.)
Chuck Bracey flew a LOC IV named “Good Wrench” on a H159-10 G, good flight Chuck.
Todd Haring caught up for his loss of flights at the Farm with his 4inch “Little John” on a I211 with a dual deployment at 500ft. A 4inch “Patriot” on a I357 with a dual deployment at 500ft. Then a 6inch “Der Red Maxx” on a very loud J350-7 white lighting.
Paddy Clancy flew a MadCow “Torrent” on a H123 with a dual deployment at 500ft for a L-1 cert flight.
Avery Walden flew a “Navy Cruise missile T-4” on a C6-5, a Estes “Lil Der Red Maxx” on C6-5s and a “US Army” also on C6-5s while his Estes “Metalizer” flew on a B6-4.
Roy Potter, I test flew one of the raffle rockets, “Daddy Long Legs” (a Sunward Aerospace Group Kit) on a C6-3 and yes it was able to get it up quite nicely. My new “Space Pirate” test flew first on a F32-4 then a F30-4 black jack which looks to be the best choice for performance. My “Red Arcus” flew on a F42-4 landing on Kens trailer, then my old “T-4” flew on a G79-4 that was short 2 seconds on the ejection delay for a rear ejection deployment but recovered and landed well.
Tim Tulowitzky flew a Estes “Commanche-3” three stage kit 3 times on a D12 to C6 to C6-7 twice and a C11 to B6 to B4-4. Only had one flight where the booster didn’t ignite the next motor. A “Mini Commanche-3”, Bumble Bee, flew on a A10 to A10 to A10-3 successfully.
Scott Pennington flew a upscale “Der Red Maxx” on a G77-6g, a “Lil Stella” on a F25-4t, a real nice “Harpoon” scale missile on a F15-6, a even nicer looking “Cosmo” (looks like a space liner) on a E9-4 that looks so cool under thrust and ”The Scoob” on a F15-6. Whats a SCOOB?
His LOC “STOVI” flew on a seven motor cluster of E9-4s which looked to all ignite successfully. A nice looking “Nike Ajax” flew on a three motor cluster of D12-5s. And then the “Lance Delta” flew on a F25-4j.
Steve Brown flew a “LOC Forte Clone” on a G61-w with a dual deployment at 300ft. A “Un-Named” from the Bergsmith collection flew on a A3-4T and a tiny “Swift 220” flew on a 1/4A3-4T and not sure they found that tiny little thing. Steves “LOC Fantom” flew on a I170-10g dual deployment at 400ft. and a LOC “Big Nuke” on a I211-10w with a dual at 400ft. A LOC “Hyper LOC 1600” flew on a J500g with a dual at 400ft also.
Duane Dominick flew a 4inch “Red, White and Blue” rocket on a G88 smoky sam.
Trent Dominick flew a Estes “Photon” on a B6-4, a “Prospector” on a C6-5, the “Hermies” on a D12-6 and a Estes “Little Boy” flew on some C6-4s.
John Bergsmith, our faithful weather predictor, flew his Mad Cow “Bat Ray” on a I285 with a dual deployment at 500ft and a 4in “Der Storm trooper Maxx” on a H123. Looked good too with nice decals.
Kim Bergsmith flew a a member of the “Goony” rockets collection. Her “Gooney Ghost” flew on a C6-3, a Estes “Pink Crayon” flew on a C6-5 and a 4inch “Der Purple Maxx” flew on a H123-M white lighting with a successful motor ejection chute deployment.
Ryan Bergsmith flew a Estes “Ninja” on a E9-4, a Estes “Orange Crayon” on a C6-5 and a Coyote vs Road Runner “Acme Crooked Rocket” on a D12-3. (you would think it couldn’t fly straight)
Liam Thrower, I think flew a green and white fiberglass LOC “WarLoc” on a H100-6.
Mike Nay flew a Estes Pro II “Asscender” on a F15-6 with a dual deployment at 300ft. His “E21-65” flew on a slow burning H87 with a dual at 400ft.
Charles Ogino, besides on fire watch duty, flew his 6inch “Little John” on a FAST and LOUD K1103 with a dual deployment at 700ft. His “MECO” flew on a I165 with a dual at 500ft.
Mark “Bart” Bartkowiack flew a Aero Tech “Sumo” on three flights, a G76-5g test flight. Then a H165-Mr for a L-1 attempt but the shock cord separated, but no damage and flew again on a H195-8t with a dual deployment at 400ft for a successful flight. His scratch built “Virg Class SSN 777, North Carolina, nuclear Sub, flew on a E23-8 but as we all know, submarines weren’t meant to be rocket powered. Just a tab bit too unstable. But I did see a WWII German, type 7-C, fly once. His rebuilt “three stage mega-Mosquito” with 3xF15s in the first booster to a single F15 to a E9-6 flew but one motor didn’t ignite in the main booster so flipped and Ground Sharked tearing it up as the other stages did ignite. Bummer, I did see it work once.
Stuart Samuels flew a Estes three stage “Tri Fecta” angular saucer kit on a A10 to A10 to A10-3 for a good flight. Stuart had no luck with his competitive “Pop Glider” on repeated flights on A10-3T mini motors. Even as calm as it was, his 200% up-scaled “Maple Seed” on a C6-3 had no luck to gain altitude and separate successfully.
Gavin Bloomer flew his Estes “Amazon” on C6-5s and a B6-4. His “Excaliber” flew on a B6-4.
Lila Wilson flew her Estes “Alpha #184” on successful flights on B6-4s.
Sawyer Wilson flew the Estes “Alpha #184” on some B6-4s also.
Charles Long flew a scale heavy payload “Delta IV” on a G118 blue streak with a dual deployment at 300ft. (it looks like a briefcase coming down on a chute). His Estes Pro II “Leviathan, Red Stripe” flew on a G88 smokey sam with a dual deployment at 300ft. the “Screamer” cluster flew on two C6-7s, a Estes Pro II “Ascender” flew on a F15-8 then the “Green Machine” flew on a G83 with a dual at 300ft.
Jeremiah Brennan flew a Mad Cow “AGM Pike” on a F36 and a classic NCR, (North Coast Rocketry) “SA-14 Archer” on a G57 for a first flight then a G68 for great flight.
Doug Knight flew his “Performer 54” ( an actual kit!) for a great first flight on a G250. His home built “Tubular Trash” (proudly named) flew on a G250. He flew a “Phenoex” on a H143-9 for a L-1 cert flight. The “White Trash Making America Great Again” flew on a H223r for his best friend John Bergsmith. Gotta be a inside joke like thing.
Jason Pettler flew a “Carbon-3” on a loud and fast J315 with a dual deployment at 500’.
Kaitlin Pettler flew her pink “Summer Fun” (last chance for that now) on a E9-6.
Joe Pettler flew a “38 Special” on a F52t, a “MECO” on a fast burning H609 with a dual deployment at 500ft. His “Lil Diter” flew on a slow H73j.
Robbie Kirk (who had to remind me that he is not a young kid anymore with collage completed and married with a child on the way) I can remember him as a skinny High School kid just getting started. Anyway he kept it cool with a reminiscing flight of his “Sky King” on a D9-4.
David Strunk flew a strengthened Estes Pro II “Leviathon” on a slow burning H87-7 and a upscaled “Fat Boy-Tweedle-Dum” on a I218-9. That was a gooooood flight.
Alan Stephenson also flew a “MECO”, his flew on a H133, I think it was dual deploy.
Michael Dryzer + Keely Collins flew a “Phoenix-2” on a H123 for a L-1 cert flight.
Patrick York flew a LOC “Weasel” on a F26-6 and his “What used to be a Estes Super Neon” flew up on a E9-6. (very rebuilt). A PML (Public Missiles Ltd) “Tethys” flew on a H196.
Steven Batten flew his movie inspired “Waiver of Oz” on a E20-7.
Nathen Verret flew his “Red Rider” flew on a B6-4.
Mark Verret flew his “Spirit” on a B6-4.
Baer + Kai flew the “One and Done” on a A3-4T mini motor as their first rocket.
Hope everyone had fun and will be looking forward to our next launch, till then, remember to keep your exhaust nozzles clear.
Roy. ROCC Sec.
Reader Comments (1)
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