Check this News article.. from the Metra launch

Referring to ICBM's and warheads in the story puts hobby rocketry in a bad light.

J.A. Michel

I know, I'm being too critical. It just hit me wrong I guess.

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somebody was >>compensating for something"

I more upset that they are saying we need those enlargement spam ads.

That's good news !! Glad someone found John's rocket. I strained to see that little orange ? dot in the sky, which turned out to be the 10ft. main chute at about 8K!

Hmm.... "M" powered farm equipment, that farmer might just have something there...

Bob D TRA6797

John did some calculations based on predicted alt (~9000'), rate of decent, wind vel, etc... figured about 2 miles. Will be interesting to see what the actual distance was.

For those interested you can see some photos of it on the BRS website:

The flight was made on an AMW M2500 GG. Awsome flame! Unfortunately the main chute came out shortly after appogee... thus the long drift down wind.

Douglas Caskey Vice President - Buffalo Rocket Society Inc.

The views expressed are my own, and do not neccessarily represent those of the Buffalo Rocket Society

I've taken some long hikes for rockets. Years ago, in the early days of Bong, a 10+ minute D ELD flight was chased down 2 miles form the launch site. At a CSAR meet in Columbus, I lost a 24" BG on a hand launch trim toss. It was found a week later 3 miles away. And my NARAM-42 C ELD that we chased about 3.5 miles. (not to mention my NARAM-41 B ELD that's still up there :-) ) Then there's my NARAM-36 C RG which in spite of a crummy boost cored a thermal and disappeared as a dot in the sky. It was found a month later 17 miles from the launch site, and shipped back to me.

Even in HPR, my first I flight, an NCR Phantom 4000HD on an I357 cored a thermal and drifted over 2 miles, landing in the top of the only tree it could find. And my L2 J350 cert flight picked up a nice thermal, also drifting a couple miles.

Back to John's flight, if you know how far it should have drifted based ont he altitude, descent rate, and wind speed, and you know how far it went, you should be able to estimate the "UP" that it was in by decreasing the descent rate till you get the observed drift, then taking the difference between the predicted descent rate and the actual descent rate.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

John - you're having to much fun with this 8-)

Phil

Phil Stein