Sunday March 17th Post-Launch report
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 8:35PM Sunday, 17 March, 2024, Post- Launch Report.
Anybody who gets the “NAR Sport Rocketry Magazine”. You also get the periodic issue of the “NAR MEMBER GUIDEBOOK”.
When your through with them pull them out of your Rocket Closet and bring them, old or new, to the launch. They are great to pass out to a new flier just getting into the hobby.
Ken Allen of Performance Hobbies,
Ken was there and doing well, you know, providing all those dire essentials a lot of us take for granted until you can’t find it in your rocket field box.
YES, you can take a couple of blank Launch Slips home to copy and make your own so you can pre-fill out your slips in advance. Some have even used various colored copy paper for their custom slips. It looks cool.
LOST AND FOUND and some Donated Items.
HEY, DAVID STRUNK. Your “Rapter” flown Dec, Sat the 16th on a “H194-11”, (you had a decal with your name on one fin). A Narrow, 4ft long with a 29mm Pro-29 motor case, bottom half Blue, top half Burgandy red rocket. It was found.!
Doc and I checked it out, the 5grain 29mm Cessironi motor, just slid out and cleaned up. The fiberglass body preserved it in like new condition, chute and cords all intact. Its ready to fly Dude.
HEY, the box also has various stuff and donations that need a forever home.
As a note, when you are walking across the fields, 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. We see everyone is taking photo’s. Lets Get them onto the ROCC Club WEB Site Gallery at Rocketrycarolina.org, or the, Rocketry of Central Carolina ROCC, Facebook site.
ROCC Club Membership
Membership covers the costs of maintaining the launch equipment, supplies and the expensive Porta-Pot. Membership also pays our association fees with the “National Association of Rocketry” and the “Tripoli Rocketry Association” which provides our insurance.
Memberships run January to January. Membership drive starts in October.
Adult - $20. Family - $25.
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.
Flight Fee Donation Box.
Remember, the Flight Fee, Donation Box goes to the Land Owner. Please Donate.
We have been running short on the “Rent” to the landowner occasionally.
Club Members = $10 per day
Non Members = $15 per day
Parent with young child under 12yo = $5 per day.
Sunday, 17 March Was Great.
Too bad it took the even greater weather on Saturday in order to dry out the field for our use on Sunday. We only had a short period of dark heavy looking clouds for about 20 minutes. The rest of the day was scattered high clouds with enough sun to keep it at T-Shirt weather. The wind or breeze was light, some gusts after 3pm, mostly to the West and North West with good periods of calm. So we got a good number of Mid and High Power flights up.
I took a walk across the creek to look for the rocket I lost last Feb before the storms came through. I did find a lot of stuff washed up in debris piles. Found Sherry Wallace’s Estes Cherokee-E body from last month. Its in good shape, I was able to remove the E12 motor but the Nose and chute are still probably up in a tree. Also found, I think it was Matt Rushing’s colorful blue and yellow with grey 3-D printed parts, Drago-BG-Glider. Most items were beyond repair and I couldn’t carry everything back across the creek except for the Cherokee and a black BT-60 looking 3-D printed nose cone. I left some damaged items along the top of the bank on the other side. Nope, I didn’t find mine, probably washed out past the bridge downstream.
Sunday, March the 17th
We had 24 fliers, and flew 63 flights and burnt 65 motors.
That includes all clusters and multi-stage flights
A= 8, B= 4, C= 15, D= 5, E= 7, F= 10, G= 4, H= 7, I= 5, J= 0, K= 0.
what I write is influenced by your penmanship and spelling.
(I did not witness all the flights, so if no notes were made on the flight slip by the launchers, some information may be in error.)
UNCK group flew a Estes Sky Writer on a “C6-7” for the sport of it.
The Upsie Daisie team (Cannon Rich, LDR) flew the El Pablo on test flights with an egg on board three times on “F24-7’s” and once on a “F51-7”.
Cayden Tirak, TARC TEAM, flew the MAKO twice on “F51-7’s” with test eggs.
Aubrey, Lilly, and Sam, TARC Team, flew the Altair with egg test flights on a “F15-6” a “F27-6” and twice on “F27-8’s”. Looking for the right motor.
Christopher Bacha, flew the White-Out and a Estes Cross Fire on “C6-7’s” and a GG/Grey Glider on a “A10-3t” for a good glide. His Cherokee-E flew high on a “E12-6” and then caught a thermal that took it due West up out of sight past the house, the road, the next field and past the way- faraway tree line. I think that was our only lost flight.
Rick Bhaltacharya flew his Kestrel on a “E12-4” for a good flight and retrieval.
Julius Burris flew the Top Shot on a “E12-4”, the fast Dart on a “D16-8” and the Rooke on a “C6-5”.
Jason Constantino flew the big Dark Star-3 on a Loki “I430-“ with a good Quantum Deployment at 600ft with a Quark backup at 500ft. The Dark Star-3 flew first on a Loki “I405-“ but the dual deployment failed but had a surviving flat landing so could fly again later. His Estes Tazz, (a heli return rocket) flew on a “B6-4” with a spinning recovery.
Ryan Guidry flew a Estes Sky Writer on a “C6-7”, a tiny yellow Jack Sparrow on a “A10-3t” with a tumble recovery and was actually found to fly again later. He had a successful two stage rocket, Baby Blue fly on a “C6” to a “C6-7”. (got to love it when the staging works).
Jude Guidry flew the Helicopter on a “C6-3” (Heli return? ). A badmitten shuttlecock, Bir-Dee flew on a “A10-3t” and got a decent altitude. The Blue Header flew on a “E12-8”, while the the Black Bullet flew on a “C6-7” with a streamer return. The Viking also flew on a “C6-7” with a streamer return.
Sarah Guidry flew her Bluey on a “A10-3t” and borrowed the Jack Sparrow to fly it also on a “A10-3t”.
Daniel Hanna flew her Little John on a “A10-3t” with a good streamer recovery. After a few attempts, she was able to get the OOP (Out Of Production) Estes Wacky-Wiggler up on a “D20-4”. (The Wiggler is normally flown on a “C” motor) The “D20” had too much thrust and the Wiggler collapsed under the stress shredding the fins. The Wiggler has a segmented body so to separate into many segments connected by a cord so it free falls wiggling like a snake, so it does not have a normal straight, sturdy body tube.
Sarah Jean flew a (I think) a Estes Extreme on a “C6-7” with a good streamer recovery.
Steve Kaltenbach flew a Estes Red Baby Bertha on a “A8-3” to a “B4-4” and then a “C6-5” for a progression of good flights. But, his Estes Hi-Flyer-XL with a Estes “D12-5” Kato’ed on the pad at ignition. Messed it up. Had to have been a bad motor.
Paul Kraemer took some time to prep his Kind’a Like A Warlock, for a great impressive .flight on a “I500-9t” after its rebuild after a deployment failure a couple of months ago. His large Super Big Bertha went up on a “I205-7” for another great flight, both with no dual deployment systems. It was really that calm.
Scott Pennington flew his Mighty THOR on a “I500-7” with a good Joly Logic deployment at 400ft. His Estes Explorer and the Cosmo both flew great on “E12-4’s”. His Old Glory flew on a “H195-7” with a good J/L deployment at 400ft. His Sammi-G flew very high and very fast on a “H550-7t” also with a J/L deployment at 400ft.
Noah Piraino flew a Wild Man Rocketry Punisher Super Sport first on a “G76-“ then with that test flight took it up a notch to a “H128-“ both with a good EggTimer Quantum deployment at 500ft.
Roy Potter, between LCO duty and walking through the woods, I flew a few pre-preped rockets. All were rear ejection which tended to amaze a few people and others to ask questions. I love science, it stimulates people. The Orange-.5 flew on a Q-Jet “C12-6fj”, White-1 on a Estes “D12-3”. But the Yellow-2 flew on an old Elis Mountain Rocketry “E12-4” that Kato’ed in mid-flight. Luckily I’ll only have to replace the rear ejection motor mount. (This Yellow-2 replaces the one lost to the south tree line then blown away by the storm last month). Well anyway, my Orange-4 flew on a “G74-4”, the Yellow-6 on a “G79-4”, the White-7 flew also on a “G79-4” and then the big Target Drone flew on a “H128-6”. All good Poop-Chuters.
Doc Russell was kept busy being the Old and Wise Rocket Guru to everyones questions and suggestions to their problems so only got around getting old reliable Tigger (yes, Pooh’s buddy) ready for a great flight on a “H180-7” with a good J/L deployment at 500ft.
Ari Seran flew a popular Apogee rocket, the Zephyr that flew on a Aero Tech “H100-“ for a good Level-1 certification flight.
Malcolm Smith, flew a Estes Mini- Der Red Max on a “1/2A3-4” and a Long Bertha with a cluster of two “B4-2’s”. Gotta love a good cluster when they all fire.
Burke Wallace prepped and flew a real nice 4inch Goblin on a “H135-“ with a good J/L chute deployment at 300ft for a successful Level-1 Certification flight.
Sherry Wallace flew a Estes Baby Bertha on a “C6-5” and a Bullet Baby on a “D20-4”. The Bullet Baby is part of a collection of short, stubby novelty kits with decals to match the attitude of the rocket. Really cute.
Jude Waylon flew the Phantom Blue on a great flight with a “C6-7”.
Remember to keep the pointy end up. Keep a check on the Webb site and FaceBook for launch notices.