November 18th &19th Launch report

Sat - Sun, 20 – 21 November, 2021, Pre Turkey 2 DAY Launch Report.

Both Days we had the hand washing, cleaning and mask requirements plus supplies for cleaning the tables, pens, pencils and common table items.

Doc Russell had brought out a case of sanitizer and supplies previously for our use.

Ken Allen of Performance Hobbies,

Ken was there for Saturday only as he had another commitment for Sunday. He kept busy with us regulars and had a few new customers.

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, nosecones, motor retainers, ect.

Pictures. Check the Gallery for launch photo’s.  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 costs 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, the Donation Box goes to the Land Owner. Please Donate.)

For memberships, check with Brenda Marshall, our Membership Officer, out at the launch site. ( Or check the Club web site on line for any new updated information At= WWW. RocketryCarolina.org). 

At this time, Ask Brenda first about how to do any checks.

ROCC Club “T” Shirt’s, are limited right now but can be purchased as the supplies last until a new source is obtained. Check on styles and colors available at the launch.

Saturday 20 Nov  the weather was really great. A bit cold to chilly when I got  in and during setting up. The student flight teams were a great help setting-up. It warmed up enough that sweat shirts were no longer needed until just before close down. As always we had a couple malfunctions and lawn darts, mostly in the Low Power category. Any air movement was minimal with most landings just a short walk away. Sunday was forecasted to be almost calm. Too bad more fliers couldn’t come out with the perfect flight conditions for both days.

We had  11   fliers,  and flew  40 flights and burnt an equal  45 motors.

This includes all  clusters and  multi-stage flights

A= 10,   B= 0,   C= 5,   D= 5,   E= 8,   F= 6,   G= 5,   H= 2,   I= 2,   J= 1,   K= 1.

Remember, what I write is influenced by your penmanship and spelling.

Barb Tobin came with a number of her Competition rockets to test fly and get flight times, which is the reason for the large number of “A” motor flights. The Helicopter Return Duration flights flew on “A10-3t” motors. The Streamer Duration flights went up on “¼ A-3t” motors. Then for the fun of it she flew the Bullet on a “C6-3” and a really nice complicated Estes Dark Star on a “C6-3” that was just a bit underpowered and maybe a prolonged delay past 3 seconds that Darted followed by the ejection.

Doug and Caleb Knight. “The Professor is in the house”. The Astro Bee-D flew on a long, slow burning, high flying “H54-7” with an apogee deployment and a easy recovery. His Raffle Prize Rocket flew on a “E20-7” and a large Big Bertha looking model called a Long Sword flew on a “F44-4”.

Roy Potter, well I brought out some of my Poop Chuter’s (Rear Chute Deployment) rockets.  I’m using the J/L-X , to experiment with the possibility of using the Jolly Logic chute deployment system with the rear chute ejection system. The J/L-X flew on a “F30-4” and a “F44-4” just to see if the altitude was good enough the try the J/L system. I got over 600ft so now I may next try a 300ft deployment. I also flew the Orange -4 on a “F67-4” with another good rear ejection and deployment.

Leaton Jones flew his Stryker on a “G131-9” with a Jolly Logic deployment at 400ft. His Up-Scaled Goblin flew on a “I 180” Sparky with a great J/L deployment also at 400ft. A up-scaled Der Big Red Maxx had a great flight on a “G88-6”. His real Biggie, was a nice and large,( 6 inch?) Black Brant-X  on a “I 540” with a apogee drogue followed by a J/L main deployment at 500ft.

Ralph Roberts (Known to all us old timers as Rocket Ralph) brought out his ancient but reliable Blue Cosmic Staff of Azul (you have to be a British Monty Python fan to know) to fly on a V-max “G54-6” and then on a “G250-9” for two great flights.

Scott Pennington always brings out a fleet. His Old Glory flew on a “H195-8” with a great J/L deployment at 400ft. The Sesime Street inspired yellow Big Bird flew on a “F67-6”. The Beetle Bug flew on a successful three motor cluster of E12-4s. His military scale SA-14 Archer nice looking, flew on a F42-8 and The Spear flew on a “E12-4”.

Joshua Lambert has a nice Zephyr (a nice kit and his L-1 Cert rocket) that flew great on a “G106-7 “ Sparky with a good recovery. The Blue Dart flew on a “C6-5”. His Raptor also flew well on a “C6-5”. His Green Astro flew on a “D6-5”.

Ron Crosier has a Up-Scaled Goblin-E that flew well on a “E20-7” and the two-staged, up-scaled Shrike flew twice successfully (I love it when the staging works) on “D12’s to D12-5’s” getting everything back with the lack of winds. His Jim-Z Clone of a Interceptor flew on a “C6-3”.

Mark Bartkowiak did a test flight of his naked (unpainted) Scram Cat on a “E11-3”.

Lenoir Rhyne Rocket Team with Prof Doug Knight took most the morning to prep the team rocket URSA Major that flew on a Aero Tech “K1000”. It was a great and loud lift off with the fast 1000 motor. It was to deploy a drogue chute at apogee with a main chute deployment at 800ft with a backup deployment charge at 600ft. There was no event seen at apogee and became ballistic till the backup ejected at the programed 600ft. The ballistic speed may have caused a entanglement with the deployment, but the chute looked tangled and did not inflate. The team recovered the rocket and will perform their version of an autopsy to identify the cause and effect. Bummer, they were really working hard on that rocket.

Caitlin Bunce spent all her time prepping her Level-2 Cert rocket, Nebula, on a “J500g” for its flight with a apogee deployment. Didn’t state what the delay might have been. It was a bright green flame that took it apogee. Did not hear what happened, but there was no activity, event at apogee and had no backup so it was a ballistic impact. It was recovered and hopefully she will be able to establish the problem and come back eager and ready.

Sunday, November 21, 2021.

We seemed to have more observers than fliers, but that just meant we could just go at a slow comfortable pace and fly’em when we had’em.

The wind did not exist as far as any effect it had on the launch’s. There was just a bit of high altitude overcast but clear most the time and about the same temp as yesterday. As always the open fields act like a solar collector so if there is any sun at all, it will be a lot warmer there than in-town.

We had  8   fliers,  and flew  28 flights and burnt an equal  28 motors.

This includes all  clusters and  multi-stage flights

A= 0,   B= 1,   C= 5,   D= 4,   E= 6,   F= 2,   G= 6,   H= 1,   I= 3,   J= 0,   K= 0.

Remember, what I write is influenced by your penmanship and spelling.

Dan Rushing Had some nice flights. His vintage Estes Explorer flew on a “B6-4”, a Estes V-2 flew on a “E12-6”, the Odyssey on a “D12-5”, and his scale missile 1262 EAM flew on a “D12-5”. Then his Black Brant flew on a “D12-5” where the ejection charge did not go off so it lawn darted. He posted the pictures on line so you can see that the Estes motor ejection charge failed. He will most probably get a new kit from Estes. They have been pretty good in the past making good for product failures.

Matt Rushing Flew a Helio-Copter, on a “C6-5”, the nose returns by heliocopter blades and the body by a chute. A regular sized Estes Der Red Max flew twice on a “C6-5”. A Brant (Black Brant?) flew on a “C6-7” and a old Estes Classic  Estes Mars Snooper flew on a 24mm “C11-3”. (I had one in 1969, yes, I and It are that old) The original kit was a 18mm C6-5. It went through some upgrades and changes through the years.

Randy Selman flew a big Little John on a I 219-7 with a motor ejection and a good Jolly Logic Chute deployment at 400ft. A Lance Delta scale missile flew on a “G80-8” also with a motor ejection and a good Jolly Logic Chute deployment at 400ft. A nice kit Estes?  Trajector NASA, flew on a "E16-6“. His Fallon-9 flew nicely on a “E12-6”

Ralph Roberts flew his Monty Python. Cosmic Staff of Azul on a “G106-6” with a new nose cone, much more aerodynamic, with a motor ejection at apogee.

Doc Russell When not helping fliers with technical issues (was very busy Sat) pulled out his Quest Renegade and flew it on a “D16-6”. His reliable,  favorite, (old and worn, but those are the ones that will last forever), the Tigger, and flew it on a “H180-7” with a motor apogee deployment.

Roy Potter It was quiet so I got more time to play with my rear ejection rockets. Yellow-2 flew twice on “E12-4’s”, Blue-3 flew on a “F32-4”, Red-5 flew on a “G38-4”, and Yellow-6 flew on a “G126-6” Pro-29,  then White-7 on a “G88-6” and then a “G131-7”, both Pro-29 motors.

(I do like the reactions when it ejects backwards and I can hear someone say, “what the hell..?)

Mark Bartkowiak flew his Odyssey on a “E11-3”.

Paul Kraemer flew a  LOC-IV on a cti sloww burning “I 55” (unk delay) with a count of 4 Mississippi’s burn time, with a high apogee deployment that did land out of sight and thought long lost. BUT Farmer Kip, our land owner, when he dropped by later, said he saw a rocket bundled up and left leaning outside the roadside fence in front of the expensive McMansion Farm House down the road. Hey, that was nice of them to take the time and effort to put it out so we could retrieve it. Pauls No Name-2 flew on a normal “I 175-8” apogee deployment and recovery, and then his up-scaled Mosquito flew on a “F27-4”.

OK, Now that was a really “good weather” two day  weekend.

Watch the Facebook postings and web site for future launch’s.

Just remember, keep the pointy end up and your exhaust nozzle clear.