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Flying Higher
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Joined: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:22 pm
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We're planning to fly to around 1100 feet on Saturday at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site north of Mojave. Wish us luck! It'll be the highest we've done, and the highest VTVL flight in any state not New Mexico (DC-X) or Texas (AA).
![]() Here's a video from one of today's precursor tests: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsO2YD9KV_I&fmt=22 The rocket is really behaving itself well. |
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Joined: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:30 am
Posts: 213 Location: USA ![]() |
Best of the best to you! let us know how it goes one way or another.
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Joined: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:51 am
Posts: 455 Location: Vienna, Austria, Europe, Earth ![]() |
Awesome video!
Can't wait to see/hear how your weekend session turned out (and Paul Breed's as well, I'm holding my breath for the BlueBall!) _________________ pride comes before a fall |
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Ours went perfectly, I'll try to get a video up tonight before I go home. It'll show up at http://www.youtube.com/bbrockert in an hour or two. "Robot xombie rocket wants to be your friend" is the flight from Thursday to sixty something meters.
Paul's Blue Ball crashed. It had a roll excursion and he hard aborted it. It landed on the computer box and broke the engine off. Sugar Shot's electronics test flight also failed, not parachute deployment on the upper section. |
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Joined: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:30 am
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Looking forward to the video. Sorry to hear about the blue ball. Sounds like an exciting day out at FAR.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfnhjdE2wY&fmt=22
There's one, I'll get the other views up later this week. |
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