The February 12th launch event at Mill Springs brought out thirty participants to take advantage of a warm afternoon with sunny skies and light to moderate winds. There were many who elected to use streamer recovery to keep smaller rockets reaching higher altitudes landing closer on the field. By the end of the event there were 108 total launches with a good variety of rocket designs including vintage as well as many taking to the air for their first flights.

Some of those vintage rockets making it back out on the launch pad included Jeff Fellman’s Holverson Designs Tangent that was successfully powered by an equally vintage C5-3. David Cain had his classic Semroc Cherokee D that he sent up on a B6 and also an Estes design Astron X-Ray flown twice under A8 power. Kevin Boyd launched his Estes Executioner with a D12 and his Estes QCC Explorer on a C11. Jorge got to launch his scratch built Red Thing on a D12. Other interesting launches included Harrison Kiefert’s Odd’l Rockets Birdie and his Sputnik with A10 engines. Gabriel had fun with his Estes Port-a-pot shot which struggled to gain altitude on a B4 but for reasons he was quick to explain (it was full of “stuff”).

For a more thunderous thrill, Robert Harris sent up his LOC Cool Spool on a G79.

Event photos by Kevin Boyd here.

A few additional event pictures here.

Engine ignition counts:
A – 39
B – 42
C – 20
D – 6
E – 1
F – 0
G – 1