November 19 2005 launch report (11/28/2005)
On Saturday, November 19, MASA held its regular launch at
the VFW soccer fields near Elk River.
Thanks to Lee Frisvold for handling the equipment for this
launch.
A few of the flights:
MASA members - please send in your thoughts about the
launch!
Lee Frisvold writes:
John [Carlson] had some pretty low heart stopping low
flights, and he even scored a goal with no apparent damage to
the rocket.
We had a total of 16 flights.
I launched 7 rockets. One was my modified Estes
Patriot that is a cluster that I sent up on 2 B6-4's for a
nice flight. The largest engine of the day was a C11-3
that I sent my scratch built WAC Corporal up on for a nice high
flight.
My other flights were: Little Shorter Big Bertha
C6-5, Baby Bertha B6-4, Original Estes V2 B6-4 little
unstable, Estes Patriot C6-5, Quest Nike Smoke B6-4.
The two new guys, I think their names were Bruce and Brad. One
was a 8th grade math teacher that is excited about rockets and
the possibilities for the students. They launched a Alpha
III twice on B6-4's for very nice flights. They were very
excited and say they are now hooked.
The day started out beautifully sunny light wind @9:00
and by 10:30 turned to dark cloudy and windy so we packed up at
10:45.
John Carlson writes:
I had a great if short time launching on Saturday.
There were only 4 of us there: myself, Lee F.
and two new guys. I think I launched a total of
seven rockets, the one I wanted to try the most was my Sunward
SU-47. It flew great on a B6-4, a C6-5 would be even
better. I even scored a goal with it as it landed in the
soccer goal.
The Details:
Full launch tally (in Adobe Acrobat PDF form, requires version
6
or newer of the Acrobat reader)
The totals were: 16 flights, 17 motors. The cumulative
total impulse was 102 Ns with an average total impulse of 6 Ns.
The motor breakdown follows:
|
Type |
# Burned |
| MicroMaxx |
0 |
|
1/4A |
0 |
|
1/2A |
0 |
|
A |
3 |
|
B |
8 |
|
C |
6 |
|
D |
0 |
|
E |
0 |
|
F |
0 |
|
G |
0 |
|
H |
0 |
|
I |
0 |
(Alan Estenson)
|
