Last Ball launch Photo

Launch this last weekend went much better than the one before. Got four flights in. The first was the Bomarc that I fix after the previous nose dive from 800 feet. It flew on a g123 and demonstrated quite a bit of lifting effects from the wings. I also had a easy single deploy h123 flight of my small endeavour rocket. A more exciting first flight for my rocket named last ball. It flew on a h400 to 1900 feet at about 450 mph. Finally came the first flight of Hawkeye. I will post the video but it will make you dizzy it got to 4125 feet and broke through some clouds. Looks like I had another avionics failure so I am retiring Hawkeye and it s avionics. Overall a pretty good day of rockets.

I placed my motor order.

Got my order motor in. One J a couple of H's and a 29mm hardware. I am getting everthing setup for the first flight of Hawkeye and my first HD on board video.

Back in the rocket Saddle.

Finally having some time to do some rocket work now. So hopefully I will have some updates soon.

Hawkeye 95% Done

I just have some little avionics work and some decals to put on. Hopefully looking for a May launch with so hd video to follow.

No love this weekend

It was a very bad launch weekend with only one out of four flights being successful. First it was sharky's machine. It flopped as bad as the the Burt Reynolds movie did. A defective motor caused a no ejection so it nosed dived into the earth from about 800 feet. Next came a lost rocket in a tree. Not a big deal but it had my wireless camera attached. Finally blue note did not fire its main chute so it came in at about 40 feet per sec resulting in serveral stress fractures. Blue note is going into retirement.

New Eye in the sky

Project Hawkeye.
The goal is to get this rocket to 7000 feet with a hd camera attached. This project will also test a new composite structure. I am going to use basalt instead of the more common carbon fiber or fiber glass for the body tubes.

Its been a long time.

I am finishing up a new project that I got for Christmas from My Mom and Julies. I think I am going to name it Sharky's Machine if my wife can make some shark teeth decals. I hope to get some pictures up soon and maybe get a launch in this weekend. Since this is a smaller rocket I wont have to make a 2 hour drive to the larger launch sites.