December 2019 Launch Report from Roy
Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 10:43AM Launch Report for Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December, 2019.
The Pre-Christmas and the last Launch of the year for 2019.
Weather was great Saturday, starting quite cold, then chilly but sunny for the rest of the day. The sun made a big difference. Winds or any breeze were mild with some to little drift.
Sunday looked worse than it was. There was a heavy looking high overcast, over 3,000ft, that helped to retain some of the heat from yesterday, but it still made it seem colder. But one good side, there was almost no breeze at all. There were periods of almost total calm.
Ken Allen of Performance Hobbies,
Ken was there and as always, providing some essential, desperately needed item, part, tube, epoxy, motor or brick-a-brack.
LOST AND FOUND.
Check the box for a few nose cones, and a few other odd items.
As a note, when you are walking across the fields on the trek to locate your latest launch, keep your eyes open on the ground for anything. Not all motor casings look alike. Also there are mini altimeters, nose cones, motor retainers, ect.
Pictures. Check the Gallery for launch photo’s. Come on, We see everyone is taking photo’s. Lets Get them onto the ROCC Club WEB Site Gallery.
Just contact Doc Russell at rocketrycarolina@gmail.com, “or” as some have done, pass it on a disk, memory card or flash drive
ROCC Club Membership (along with the Raffle sales) 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.
For memberships, check with Brenda Marshall, our new Membership Officer at the launch site. ( Or check the Club web site for new updated information, (No checks at this time), At= WWW. Rocketry Carolina.org)
ROCC Club “T” shirt’s can also be purchased as the supplies last until a new source is obtained. Check on styles and colors available.
Saturday, 21 December, 2019.
Good day as I said. Our only loss was Barb Tobins test flight of a competition “chute Duration” rocket that disobeyed the laws of gravity once the chute was deployed and continued to go upward finally getting tangled in the tree tops over the creek. She was more than pleased with her recorded air time though.
We had 22 fliers , put up 69 flights burning 72 engines.
That includes all clusters and multi-stage flights
A= 16 , B= 7 , C= 8 , D= 5 , E= 13 , F= 6 , G= 10 , H= 4 , I= 3 , J= 0, K= 0 .
(Remember, what I write is influenced by your penmanship and spelling.
Doug Knight flew his “Yard Sale” on a H160-9 with a jolly logic chute release at 500ft.
Steve Brown flew his “Spare Parts” on a G61-6w, the “Vulcanite” flew on a G339 with separation at apogee with a good main deployment at 400ft. His classic “Space Probe” flew on a D12-5. His air drag recovery “Twirly-Gig” flew on a A10-0, the “Sand Hawk” flew on a E18-4, the “Rascal” on a B6-6. Then he pulled out his nice Big LOC “Big Nuke” took it off on a I327-10dm sparky with a J/L set for a 300ft chute release. But the chute bundle jerked free of the J/L and deployed at a quite high apogee. This caused it to sloooowly drift over the creek and tree line onto the edge of the field across the creek for a safe retrieval.
Sandy Houston came out with Erica to say hi and meet up with old friends with his “Diamond Back” that flew on a C6-5 and a Estes Upscaled classic “Alpha” also on a C6-5.
Erica Owens flew one of her original designed rockets, kits available, “Snow Flake” rocket on a A10-3.
Doc Russell flew his “Laser-X” on a F36-6, his “Goblin” on a D12-7 and his new “Rock-It” for its 1st flight on a B6-4. The tubular fined “Solar Cruiser” flew on a F67-6 while his “Mega-Mossi” mosquito flew on a E9-4. His “Argent” flew on a F67-6.
Barb Tobin came out with her fleet of NAR rockets, to test or record for score, for the NAR rocket competition. Some on her launch tower and some on a piston system. Her “Chute Duration” rockets flew flights on 1/2A-2t’s, her “Glider Duration” on 1/2A-2t’s. “Helicopter Duration” flights were also on 1/2A-2t’s along with a “Streamer Duration” on a 1/2A-2t. Her two stage “Payload Duration/Altitude?” flew on a A10-0 to a A10-4.
The UNC Charlotte Rocket Team under Rocket Ralph Roberts, flew a test flight of the “Rise of Skywalker” on a I180-14 to release a drogue at apogee with main chute deployment at 500ft . But the rocket suffered cord, body separation at apogee coming down in 3 parts. Bummer as it did so well last month.
Roy Potter. I brought out my Donut Poop-Chute’rs. The “Orange-4” flew on a G74-6, “Red-5” flew also on a G74-6, then “Yellow-6” flew on a G79-4. My smaller poopers were the “Missile” on a low thrust E9-4 then a better thrust with a E12-4 then “Bob” flew on a E9-4, all were good poopers. My only normal flight was the “Red Arcas” on a G74-6 that turned toward the trees but landed just short of the trees in the field.
Scott Pennington flew his “Yellow Big Bird”, I assume his favorite Seseme Street character, that went up on a G74-6. His “Nike Ajax XL” flew on a F67-9w, the “Lance Delta” flew on a F67-6w and the “Harpoon” flew twice on a E9-6. Scotts nice “Explorer” flew on a E12-4 while his big “Nike Zeus”, all repaired from last months flat, chute-less landing, flew perfectly on a H550-7 with a J/L deployment at 400ft. The Russan “Sasha” scale missile 2 stage flew on a D12 to a D12-5 that almost drifted out of site over the far field on the right down range. “Cosmo-2” flew on a E12-4.
Devin Nusbaum flew a classic AeroTech “Arreaux” first on a E23-5t then on a F22-7, both with a J/L chute deployment at 600ft.
Eric Noguchi tested his growing fleet of rocket boost gliders. His “Slide Wing Glider” made a flight on a B6-2 to check and trim its flight. A cloned “Swing Wing Glider” flew on a B6-2 and a “Scissor-Flop Wing Glider” flew on a A10-3t. A Prototype “Air Brake” return rocket flew on a B4-2.
Malcolm Smith flew a Estes “Big Dawg” on a Q-Jet B4-6 and a Flis-Kit “Praetor” 2 stage flew on a B6 to a A8-5 successfully. Love it when the staging works.
Robbie Kirk flew his “Red Checkers” on a G79-6 getting a chance to play with his new Jolly Logic chute release at 300ft. He also flew a Estes “Baby Bertha” on a C6-5 and the “Olympus” on a D12-3.
Ralph Roberts when not overseeing the UNC Charlotte rocket team, he flew a Estes “Patriot” on a C6-5 then a “Nike Smoke” on a C6-7.
The Lenor Ryhme Rocketry Team flew the “Ursine ½ scale” test rocket on a H148-m.
Todd Haring flew a “Little John” missile on a H550 with a dual recovery at 500ft. The “Risky Proposition” flew on a I180 also with a Missile Works dual deployment at 500ft.
Dan Butcher flew a SM “Endeavor” on a G80-7.
Allen Deal flew a “Nike Rocket” on a C6-5.
The WIHS SLI Rocket Team under Prof Doug Knight flew a ½ scale test rocket with all the ill-regular body shapes (spider landing legs) on a G84-10g with a drogue chute at apogee and the main at 500ft.
Greg Bullock flew the “2X Hi-Flyer” on a E9-6, the “Nimrods Arrow” flew on a E9-6 and a “Mega Mosquito” also flew on a E9-6.
Bill Jetton flew a Estes Silver Comet named “Dark Silver” on a C6-3.
Brenda Marshall, our club membership officer, flew her “Flying Colors” on a C6-5.
Sunday, 22 December, 2019.
Think the apparent weather conditions caused some fliers to skip due to how the weather looked. Heavy overcast but over 3,000 ft clearance and it was just so, almost, calm.
We had 12 fliers , put up 24 flights burning 26 engines.
That includes all clusters and multi-stage flights
A= 1, B= 3, C= 2, D= 3, E= 6, F= 2, G= 7, H= 1, I= 0, J= 0, K= O.
(Remember, what I write is influenced by your penmanship and spelling.
Doc Russell flew his up scaled Estes “Interceptor-G” on a G80-7 with a J/L set to deploy at 500ft, the nose separated but the chute stuck in the tip of the body tube and did not deploy. Very bad to a really nice looking rocket.
Ralph Roberts flew his reborn, risen from the dead, “East Side Thug 2.0” on a G64-4.
Peter Bartel flew his Estes “Fire Streak” on a C7-6 with a streamer recovery.
Juan Davila flew a Estes “Silver Comet” rocket on a D12-5 and the Estes? “Yellow Jacket” flew on a B6-4.
Joshua Davila re-flew the “Silver Comet” rocket on a D12-5.
Brian Davila flew his “Yellow Jack” on a C6-5 and a classic “Cherokee-D” on a D11-7.
Mark Bartkowiak flew his brilliantly colored and tubular finned “Super Neon XL” on a E12-4 but the motor Kato’d with minimal to slight damage. His flying Nuclear Submarine “Sub Orbital” flew on a E16-6 but is still a bit unstable. More work.
Fred Monroe flew a Estes “Big Daddy” on a E9-8 then brought out the big “LOC-IV” and tried a F42-4 that was clearly underpowered and only made the height of a telephone pole to eject and successfully deploy the chute with no damage. Soooo, he whipped out the G80-4 and had a great flight but what looked like fishing tackle linkage gave under the stress separating the nose and chute from the body that luckily made a nice flat body landing with minimal fin damage.
Robbie Kirk flew his 2-stage “Epic II” on a B6 to a A8-3 successfully.
William Bartell flew a Estes “Fire Streak” on a B6-4.
Greg Homson had a small/mid- sized Public Missiles “Phobos” that he started off with a F50-4t for a nice altitude, then on a G80-7 for a impressively high altitude, then, what the heck, lets go with the H115-10. (All three flew and returned on a J/L chute deployment at 300ft). The conditions were perfect for using the H115, because it just disappeared with no sight until it just appeared and came down in a almost dead calm landing mid field on the left.
Roy Potter, I flew some of my donut chute rear ejection rockets again. My “Bob” flew on a E9-4, the “Missile” on a E9-4 then a E12-4, “Orange-4” flew on a G74-4 econo-jet, “Red-5” went on a G40-4. Then what I thought would be nice for a quiet and normal conventional flight of the “Q” on a G40-4 with a normal chute release. But the ejection went off, but not the nose and chute. Yep, you saw the pictures of the “Shovel Recovery”. The spectators were amazed with the 8 inch penetration by the long pointy nose cone. Except for score marks, no damage to the nose. Of the body, only the fins are salvageable.
OK. Overall it was a good weekend, our first in some time, so we’re glad you all came out and had some fun.
Watch the Facebook postings and web site for future launch’s and remember to keep the pointy end up.