Including a spectacular (and odd) CATO
It rained all day Friday and into early Saturday morning, followed by a heavy fog. We decided late Saturday morning to give the launch a try. Although overcast a good bit of the day, it was about 64 degrees with hardly any wind. Besides the ground being mushy, it was a great day to launch rockets, with most landing near the pad.
MoreRockets.com flights
It was a beautiful day, following several canceled lauches due to rain or cold weather conditions. The temperature was a nice 63 degrees, the sky was clear, but the wind was a liitle gusty. As, usual we had a great time launching rockets.
Great flights, didn’t even have to walk real far today.
Saturday, November the 4th, 2023 was an incredible day. The winds were light and the temperature was a comfortable 70 degress. We had a cloudless sky and some great rocket launches.
A dragonfly was really interested in our launch.
Another beautiful day, about 90 degrees and just a light breeze. Michelle, Walter, and Wyatt joined us to fly rockets and we had a great time. We had about 20 flights, mostly all successful. An E motor got Michelle’s scratch-built Dr. Who rocket (with a Tardis nose cone) to new heights.
Our Roy Green Memorial Launch
It had been a while since our last launch but this was a great day weather-wise. Rather hot, muggy, but hardly a breeze. It was our first launch since our rocketry friend Roy Green died, so I’m dedicating this launch to him.
Which toys would you have asked Santa for?
I was born in 1958 which made me 2 to 11 years old in the sixties, the perfect age for these Christmas toys. Many homes in America had a Sears catalog with pages that had been dog-eared in hopes of receiving a toy from that very page. Barbie was 1 year old in 1960 and all the girls wanted one. The Ken doll was released by Mattel in 1961.
B14-0 Cato’s on staged flight of an Estes Drifter
We got together for a rocket launch on this beautiful Saturday afternoon. It was pretty hot but the wind wasn’t as bad as it had been at the last couple of launches. The guys got three new Astocam videos that I’ll post below.
Gusts up to 40 MPH
What a beautiful day, for early March, with a high temperature of 79 degrees F. The wind was a different story. According to theweather.net, the winds were a constant 10 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. We had a challenge, used a lot of streamers, and had a great day as usual.
Not a cloud in the sky.
Beautiful day, blue sky with high temperature at 58 degrees F. The negative was the winds, about 10-15MPH steady all day with some 25MPH gusts. We adjusted our launches and everything went pretty well. A few high flights required streamers though.
Beautiful sky, great launch
Another great day flying rockets, first launch this year. It was windy and cold, 10mph steady breeze and 40 degrees F. The sky was cloudless. We had a couple of more launches that I did not get a photo of; Kevin’s PML Bullpup on a Loki G66, and my Estes Big Dawg on a C6-5.
