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June 23, 2002

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Pictures by Christine Rial

Russ Hoburg's mach buster on an H128 - the first flight of the day to check the wind. There wasn't any!!

Kreig Williams' Sun Chaser, his 50 lb L3 rocket flying on an L850 to 2650'. A spectacular flight!

The sun chaser continues up on the L850's 5 second burn. The great thing about the L850 is the high initial thrust allowing you to launch a heavy rocket and keep it fairly low for smaller fields.Of course the price is way better than the M1419 too!

Well it was Christine First Launch of the day and I flew my Hi-Tech 45 and a F40-4 to test the high winds. What your looking at is finaly lift off after three other bad ingiter had gone bad on me.

Maiden, and ultimately doomed, flight of Dan Ward's Aerotech Mirage on a G40-4W. Using the stock two-piece/two-chute recovery configuration seemed like a good idea, right up until the point when only one chute opened...

Well the second try was a lot better. This time my Hi-tech 45 flew on a G64-7 and it lit the first time on a copperhead.

It seems like those ignitor clips want to go along for the ride. This is a mod/bash using the plastic fin assembly from a spin-stabilized firework. Going up on a C6-5.

Kit name unknown, Rocket called the Firebird on a G-33 Blackjack launched by Steve Foster

Loading my (Woody's) upscale mosquito onto Ernie's rail. If you look closely, you can see the central J800, and the red caps on the outboard I161's.

The I161 has a smaller nozzle than I am used to, (I normally use I211's), so the outboard igniters I made were too large. Here I am chipping away some of the pyrogen.

Here is Woody's dad checking out that all the altimeters and stagers are working. They had three different things beeping in this rocket.

The mosquito weighs almost exactly 30 pounds ready to fly. It uses dual deployment from a single opening with an 8' main.

This picture is taken from the road - showing how close it was, and why we were so concerned about it.

The mosquito starts out right around 10 G's, with the J800's 300 pound initial thrust.

The two I161 outboards are lit just over 2 seconds into the flight.

The mosquito lands, once again miraculously without breaking a fin.

This is a design from the Jan/Feb 2001 NAR Sport Rocketry magazine. The Lampshade, 12" diameter, going up on a E15-0.

Lief Hammer's Big Bertha doing the St Louis Arch.

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	Russ Hoburg's mach buster on an H128 - the first flight of the day to check the wind. There wasn't any!!
Kreig Williams' Sun Chaser, his 50 lb L3 rocket flying on an L850 to 2650'. A spectacular flight!
	The sun chaser continues up on the L850's 5 second burn. The great thing about the L850 is the high initial thrust allowing you to launch a heavy rocket and keep it fairly low for smaller fields.Of course the price is way better than the M1419 too!

	Well it was Christine First Launch of the day and I flew my Hi-Tech 45 and a F40-4 to test the high winds. What your looking at is finaly lift off after three other bad ingiter had gone bad on me.


Maiden, and ultimately doomed, flight of Dan Ward's Aerotech Mirage on a G40-4W. Using the stock two-piece/two-chute recovery configuration seemed like a good idea, right up until the point when only one chute opened...
	Well the second try was a lot better. This time my Hi-tech 45 flew on a G64-7 and it lit the first time on a copperhead.
It seems like those ignitor clips want to go along for the ride. This is a mod/bash using the plastic fin assembly from a spin-stabilized firework. Going up on a C6-5.
	Kit name unknown, Rocket called the Firebird on a G-33 Blackjack launched by Steve Foster
Loading my (Woody's) upscale mosquito onto Ernie's rail. If you look closely, you can see the central J800, and the red caps on the outboard I161's.
	The I161 has a smaller nozzle than I am used to, (I normally use I211's), so the outboard igniters I made were too large. Here I am chipping away some of the pyrogen.
Here is Woody's dad checking out that all the altimeters and stagers are working. They had three different things beeping in this rocket.
	The mosquito weighs almost exactly 30 pounds ready to fly. It uses dual deployment from a single opening with an 8' main.
This picture is taken from the road - showing how close it was, and why we were so concerned about it.
	The mosquito starts out right around 10 G's, with the J800's 300 pound initial thrust.
The two I161 outboards are lit just over 2 seconds into the flight.
	The mosquito lands, once again miraculously without breaking a fin.
This is a design from the Jan/Feb 2001 NAR Sport Rocketry magazine. The Lampshade, 12" diameter, going up on a E15-0.

Lief Hammer's Big Bertha doing the St Louis Arch.