It was also a set of checks and balances that you did things correctly. Now who knows. And the loss of reference plans on what actually set records impacts the magazine. Record setting plans used to appear all the time. When is the last time you saw one in SpRockets?
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
And I apologize for not giving you the opportunity to say this to our faces at NARAM this year. Please forgive us ;-)
Dave
Bob, please don't use my words to make a nasty and unfounded dig at a very decent fellow rocket guy.
Peter Alway
Huh? The event has? I thought humans were involved somewhere.
He didn't. The word desent does not apply in my experience.
snipped-for-privacy@aol.computer (Mike Lee Kochel) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m21.aol.com:
The rocketeer's ballistic coefficient.
len.
snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (PeteAlway) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m02.aol.com:
Amongst other words of wisdom, the sage Peter Alway sayeth:
So, we'd need to add a strategic element (one of my maxims as a system architect is "there's no problem so simple that we can't find a complex solution to it"). Split the entrants' list ranked by points into two halves. The top half are the BTCs. We can let them fight it out tooth and nail.
Let's take the bottom half. Let's call them them the Half-Last competitors. In this category, the strategy is to enter NARAM with just enough points to put you at the top of the Half-Last list, rather than at the bottom of the BTC list.
The remainder is left to the contestant as an exercise.
len.
"Very decent" is pushing it, but he is mostly decent, and a highly skilled and respected modeller and competitor. If it was not for his deep commitment to NAR competition, I would not vote for him as an NAR trustee.
Alan
And this reinforces the point that NAR competition is a dimming flicker in time and space, and so far no efforts have popularized it.
Sport rocketry and simple competitions where virtually ANY rocket can enter are good ones. Spot landing, predicted altitude, drag race and "What's your Hurry" pop to mind. And Beerloft :)
Jerry
Point. His Shuttles beyond rock too.
Jerry
ABSOLUTELY!
Randy
What are the Pink Book rules for the post-competition Pissing Contest Duration event? Who administers that?
Scott "Vicarious competitor and Pissing Contest fan" McCrate NAR
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Mark Bundick by tradition.
Jerry
What are the Pink Book rules for the post-competition Pissing Contest Duration event? Who administers that?
It lasted from 1970-1975.
Jerry
Rules? We don't need no steenken rules...
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
Right now, B division is roughly high school age. It maps mostly to skill differences.
Until recently, there just weren't enough women at a NARAM to even consider this. [Yes, I realize this statement was in jest]
Correct. Woosh cleaned up in A&B divisions this year, as did just about every recent section champ. Back when NIRA was seriously competing we had lots of kids flying. THe adults mostly racked up flight points, the kids won the pennant.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
What are the Pink Book rules for the post-competition Pissing Contest Duration event? Who administers that?
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