The Dawsonville March 24th Launch Event started out with chilly temperatures and some light rain moving in and out of the area but ended up quite pleasant as the heavier clouds moved further north and the sun peeked out to warm up and moderate the winds. We had thirteen participants (including the rocketry group from Atlanta Classical Academy) accomplish thirty-two launches.

Although the day included a good number of mishaps (of the usual variety) like Scot Hooper’s scratch-built (from eight toilet paper rolls) experimental “Number Two” which didn’t come out well and required some cleanup on the field (we had plenty of fun word-play with this one).

There were many more thrilling successful flights to applaud including successfully recovered payloads of Nicolas’ dinosaur and another with Tim’s goldfish (crackers). Scot also got to launch his Mega Der Red Max (Old No. 7), that we saw at the last club meeting, with a G80 which took it far afield but was recovered successfully while Dylan Hooper got to launch his Estes Nike Smoke (The Bat) twice on F15-6s. The ACA teams were launching their DynaStar (Apogee) AeroDactyl TS two stage rockets on E16-0/F15-6 or E16-0/E16-6 for some great spectator excitement. Event Photos

Engine Ignition Counts:
A – 4
B – 5
C – 3
D – 4
E – 15
F – 8
G – 2