Beautiful day, 72 degrees and low humidity, barely a breeze. Most of our flights landed close to the launch pads. Another great day flying rockets.
Rocket Launch (11/21/20)
Category: Rocketry
Jupiter
The gas giant, Jupiter, is an extreme planet with turbulent weather, magnetic fields and mega storms. NASA sent Juno on a 4 year, 10 month, 28 day trip to expand on the data we knew of this spectacular planet. The Lockheed Martin Juno space probe left Earth atop the Atlas V (AV-029) using a Russian built RD-180 main engine (powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen) and 5 solid rocket boosters.
Rocket Launch (11/07/20)
Rain? We left in the unpredicted rain, drove in the rain and arrived in the rain. Luckily, about 30 minutes after we arrived the rain stopped and we even got a little sun during the day. The wind was worse up in the sky so the rockets, under parachute, drifted a little far at times, but overall a great day and about 72 degrees.
Pluto
Pluto is a Dwarf planet, with 5 moons, that lies beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. It was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh who worked at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona from 1929 to 1945.
Rocket Launch (10/17/20)
Beautiful blue sky, not a cloud anywhere. The wind was a little strong at times, blowing right back at us but the temperature was a comfortable 67 degrees. What a great day for flying rockets.
Rocket Launch (10/03/2020)
Great day for a rocket launch! Beautiful fall weather, not a cloud in the sky, light winds and 73 degrees. We used the Jolly Logic AltimeterTwo on all ten of our flights.
Jolly Logic AltimeterTwo
It uses state-of-the-art pressure and acceleration sensors to perform the 10 most important flight analyses for each rocket flight.
I just got the Jolly Logic AltimeterTwo from Amazon.com for $69.99. I used it today and it is, as advertised, a great and fun product for Model Rocketry. This second generation device “uses state-of-the-art pressure and acceleration sensors to perform the 10 most important flight analyses for each rocket flight”.
CATO
A CATastrOphic failure 0r CATO is defined as:
A motor failure, generally explosive, where all the propellant is burned in a much shorter time than planned.
Rocket Launch (09/19/20)
Great launch today. Weather was a little too windy, but we managed, and the temperature was incredible, 70 degrees. The sky was overcast the entire day. We also had some CATO‘s.
Rocket Launch (09/05/2020)
Beautiful day, a little windy, made the temperature just right. We had a great time even though the opening day of dove season ran us off the main field.
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