March Briner sends us his report on Southern Thunder last weekend in Manchester, TN:
“If you weren’t there, you missed a good one. Both days saw mostly sunny skies, temperatures in the upper 80s, and light morning winds blowing ever so slightly into the woods. Hard to say exactly how many flyers showed up; I got there early Saturday to claim a prime spot on the flight line close to the rangehead.
Saturday, I (more…)
John Adams sends a report about the August 11th launch.
“WOW! We had a great launch today at Lost Mountain!
We launched some rockets, ZERO rockets were lost, and even had some nice contest flights.
1/2A Helicopter Duration was actually pretty dramatic! Jorge had a good flight then a prang. Joel had to overcome a few issues before finally getting a really good flight to win the event.
1/2A Streamer was the most popular event with (more…)
We had a terrific day in Braselton, GA. This was a scout sponsored launch that asked us to handled the launch. We had a large crowd and flew approx 225 rockets ranging from A8-3’s to some C6-5’s.
Of course some of our members and a few others launched anywhere from D12-3’s up to a couple of G’s. The rain held off with the exception of a two-minute light sprinkle so it was a great day to fly rockets.
We did have a few rockets that left the field and unfortunately March and Glenn both lost one of their larger rockets, along with the hardware within, to the deep woods.
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The June 8th Mill Springs launch saw over 154 rockets (as well as a few saucers, spools, and cones) take to the skies. Interestingly there were 34 B6-4 engines used and 33 C6-5 engines, while the A8-3 only saw 17 launches. Another popular engine was the A3-4T at 22 launches. The most powerful engine was the F27-4R launching Steve Bellio’s Amraam 2 on two flights. There were 98 parachute recoveries, followed by 41 Streamer and a few tumble recoveries and some helicopter nose cones and some gliders. The day saw 2 cluster rockets, a couple of multi-stage launches, video camera, altimeters, 12 drag races, 31 first flights, 10 heads-up alerts, and one payload of an armless lego man… and finally a single french-fry was sent skyward as payload and thought to be still edible upon return.