The 2018 Turkey & GRITS launch is in the books! Nearly 50 registered flyers came out over the two day event and 253 rockets took to the air in what was one of our most successful launches to date. Highlights included Joshua Finn who smashed two NAR glider records (1/8A and F duration) with his beautifully engineered switchblade gliders, the long awaited first (and last) flight of Jorge Blanco’s upscaled Rubicon on a K780, a pair of very successful two-stage high power flights from Gary Dahlke & Greg Hassler, Steve Pollak’s huge pool-noodle covered saucer, as well as several other odd-rocs and saucers.

There were also eleven L1 and five L2 cert flights for the weekend and most of them were quite successful. Congrats to all those flyers who are now cleared to spend even more money on their rocket motors!

Event Photos by Kevin Boyd [Saturday] [Sunday]

And speaking of motors, the breakdown of those used during the event was as follows:

• 1/8 A – 1
  1/2 A – 2
  A – 15
  B – 29
  C – 46
  D – 17
  E – 29
  F – 35
  G – 29
  H – 23
  I – 14
  J – 14
  K – 8
  L – 1