My level 3 certification attempt July 26, 2008 was successful!!! I flew my 5 inch Intimidator on an AMW M1350WW. It reached an altitude of 7500 feet.
Well, me and Chris have made our first batch of sparky motors. We started out with a half Kilogram mix to test out, which made us two H motors and one I motor.
Our first static fire was a two grain 38 with a #19 nozzle.
Second static fire was a another two grain 38 except it had a #16 nozzle.
Third static test was a 4 grain 38 with a #22 nozzle.
Well folks Southern Thunder was a blast, literally. We had a great turn out, at my best guesstimation there was about 250 to 300 people there. The official report for Saturday was 270 launches, Friday and Sunday is still unknown at this point in time. I myself had three successful flights. My first launch was my Gizmo in the Gizmo drag race on an I229, which I unfortunatley lost. My second flight was my IO on a H238T, which was the “Watch This” flight of the entire launch. I’m surprised it didn’t leave it’s fins sitting at the pad it tookoff so fast. Finally my biggest flight of the launch was my 5 inch diameter 10 feet tall Intimidator on an AMW L1400 Skidmark. It made 6700 feet at apogee, 0.64 Mach or 475 Mph, and 0-475 in less than 3 seconds. To see more pics from Southern Thunder Click Here.
Hey everybody, Southern Thunder is coming shortly, a launch you definitly don’t want to miss. The launch starts Saturday June 21and ends Sunday June 22.
I’ve got my 5 in. Intimidator lined up to fly on a Loki L1482 and I’ve got my Gizmo entered in the Gizmo drag race sponsored by Wildman. It’s going to be loads of fun and I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures and post for everyone to see.
For more information on ST2008 go to http://www.hararocketry.org/st2008/.
At the SEARS June launch my Gizmo had a wild ride as it came in ballistic from about 3,000 ft. I thought it would be totaled, but luckly when I found it the next day the only thing that was messed up was the nosecone which can easily be replaced before Southern Thunder in two weeks. It was a real job just finding the thing. I spent two hours riding back and fourth on my four-wheeler before I found what I thought was the crater. The rocket was buried so deep I didn’t even know if I was diging in the right spot until I actually got down to it. Here’s a picture of the crater before I started diging and one of the rocket after I got it out and cleaned up.
The next SEARS launch is scheduled for June 7th. Setup starts around 9 am and the launch will kick off around 9:30 am. This launch is open to the public and anyone interested is welcome to come join us. If you need directions to the launch site click here.
Here’s a video of my Gizmo at the May 10th SEARS launch on an Aerotech I435T. Man that thing got outa here!
Hi everyone, my name is Chris and this is My Site not Ricky’s despite what the receipt says, but anyways I’m new to blogging and looking forward to keeping ya’ll updated!