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Requiem for a Rocket, or How I Tore Our Field a New One...
Apr 07, 2004
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, stratosphere to subteranean. Our condolences.
The Rapier and Thor send their condolences (or they would if they didn't have dimes on their eyes).
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Double murder (March 13, MC2 launch). Just call me Alabama OJ... :-/
Chuck
Perhaps viewing
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will help you feel a stronger kinship to some of your rocketry brethern?
-Kevin
Ok Gene, what was the problem? Forgot ejection charge? Didn't arm electronics? Forgot electronics? Used Super Glue instead of shear pins?
I have to admit, it was a pretty lawn dart. And deep too.
-Rob Bazinet
sniff!
do you prefer "Taps" on Bugle, or "Amazing Grace" on Bagpipes?
- iz
Well, I managed to crash this one four times!(Okay, it was four similar ones;) All of the wreckage was above ground, though.
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Mark E. Hamilton NAR #48641-SR
The rocketeer's cycle of manic-depression:
5000 feet up..........yeehaw! 5005 feet back down.........aw crap. +McG+
Making the transition from atmospheric to lithospheric flight involves an abrupt change in Cd at the transition point....
- Rick "singularity" Dickinson
Sorry to hear about it Gene. Time will heal the wounds.
Randy
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