AHPRA 6-28-2003
All of our flights today were launched with Mike Luna's new Pro Launch, very nice unit! He claims it is fire resistant, I wanted to test that but he didn't want to play, party popper! It was very hot and dry by noon it was 112F and we had a couple of small fires, so we wont fly again until we get some rain and it cools off some.
 
Kevin's Aardvark 4" PAC3 flying on a 54 mm K1400 8 grain. A perfect flight to 4959' reported by the Missile Works RRC2X.
 
 

 
Marty's Chubsy flying on a new 75 mm L1200 5 grain motor, this motor has an internal nozzle and 5 longer grains in the 6 grain case. The flight up was great to 5942' unfortunately the chute tangled causing a hard landing, due to the bullet proof build and fiberglass nose cone it only suffered a cracked fin fillet and will fly again with minor repairs.
 
 
We talked Bruce O'Brien into flying one of our 75 mm 4 grain sugar motors in his motor tester called Get Shorty. This unique rocket is just a Performance Rocketry fin can and nose cone with a short body tube, the screws that hold the fin can go through the body tube into one of several motor mounts. So it is completely modular and by removing 3 screws he can change motor and/or body tube. Great flight, very fast, as soon as we get the data from the Black Sky we will post the curves here.
 
 
One of Mike Luna's beautiful rockets flying on a Pro38 load, nice flight. Later in the day he flew it on one of Ron Zeppin's motors and it wasn't up to the challenge, a very nice shred at motor burn out!
 

The Crayon once again flying on it's 54 mm J400 3 grain motor, for a very fast and high flight. It would be fun to put a small altimeter in this thing to see how high it goes.
 

Mark Clark and Ron Zeppin brought their new 6" N2444 single grain motor and static fired it, much noise and fire! I think they left it sitting next to Marty's Chubsy to show how inadequate his little 3" mount is! There is a video at the XRAA site.
 

One of the locals hanging out under one of our prep tables, or was it we setup our table over his home? Anyway he didn't look to impressed with the racketeers!