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Rocket Launching of
October 6, 2013 |
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Some of the other guys from PARA. Barry McGarvey,
president, is in the orange shirt. |
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A high power scratch built rocket shoots
off the pad.
It wasn't stable and it crashed. Spectacularly! |
Andrea helps in the construction
of all my rockets.
Hey Andrea! Nice ... license plate. What's with the
look? |
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Now we're going to close the place
down. The last launch of the day will be Sput-Two-Nik ....but
I forgot the igniter!
I'm running back to get one, the PARA dudes want to pack up
and are waiting for this thing to take off. It was worth the
wait!
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Another perfect flight, though it landed
in the corn. John recovered it, he needs an award or
something.
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If you're not tired of watching what
seems to be the same video over and over, this is probably
the best one.
See the dark green lines? Those are footprints from people
going after their rockets.
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The anniversary of the Soviet Union's
first Sputnik was two days earlier on
October 4th.
I named this two stage rocket "Sput-Two-Nik" in
honor of the achievement. I thought it was clever, but it's
actually quite awful.
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The Alpha,
Amazon, Silverfish and
Sput-Two-Nik were all launched twice and retrieved
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We put a small device in the rockets called a "keyfinder".
It's made to find your keys. You put one in the rocket and
one in your pocket. If the rocket gets lost you press your
keyfinder and the other one beeps. Guess what we lost. The
keyfinder!
We put it into Matt's Amazon, and when the rocket was
recovered the keyfinder was missing. We looked for it for
over ten
minutes, pressing the button on the other keyfinder over and over
to no avail. It never answered. Pretty funny. We were the
last ones to leave the field. |
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