The February 6^th launch event at Lilly was held under mostly cloudy skies with brisk moderate winds.  The midwinter chill did not deter twenty-one hardy participants who were encouraged by the large open field to launch ninety-three rockets.  Motor ignition counts were as follows:

• 1/2A – 1
• A – 0
• B – 7
• C – 23
• D – 16
• E – 15
• F – 18
• G – 8
• H – 8
• I – 6
• J – 2
• K – 2

The many mid to high-power rockets were thrilling to watch (and hear) while all eyes anxiously monitored the dual deployment used on many of these larger rockets.  Glenn Harper had a spectacular launch of his Polecat Aerospace Woket on a J244.  Mario had an awesome flight with his larger CTI K-powered Horizon (4.8 second burn) and Paul Farmer flew his LOC Phantom on a K500 Red.  T.J. Frishe launched his Madcow Minion Missile with a J270-W.  Chris Short provided a demo of the Jolly Logic Chute Release on a PML Phobos lofted by a H250G.  The device worked perfectly. 

Kevin Scholberg brought out an assortment of unique paradigm-changing creations that were fun to watch; the scratch-built Shining Star being my favorite.  Also of note was Eric Bessman’s Aerotech Arreaax (pronounced “Arrow”) with onboard GPS and HD camera powered by a G64W-10.  David Barber brought out a nicely finished Space X Falcon 9 Cargo and Tom Thurmond wowed us with a not so perfect flight of his Semroc Mars Lander but the stuck-landing brought out much applause.  So much more to mention, but need to get this posted today.  Some additional photos here.