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LDRS 29: A windy but impressive international launch! (2010-06-16)
I was able to attend LDRS 29 at Lucerne Dry Lake, CA from Friday@11AM through Sunday@3PM. With rare exception it was windy/gusty the entire time and the only relief came between pronounced wind ... [Read More]
Belated: LDRS - June 2016 launch report (2016-11-20)I haven't felt much like blogging in recent months. Could you tell? Well I'm attempting to catch up now so I suppose that's something... onward and upward. LDRS was conveniently hosted by ... [Read More]
Repair day (2010-04-10)After finishing my taxes today I decided to repair several ailing rockets despite needing to build/finish several others. First off I fixed the 4" bullet after an early I366 Redline flight with yet ... [Read More]
Construction progress (2010-05-13)I continue to make progress on Der Red Mix's electronics bay and motor tubes. Right now I only have e-bay pix, however, so here they are: The Flip MinoHD camera fits nicely through the side and I ... [Read More]
Leaps and bounds (2010-05-17)All of a sudden this thing's really coming together. I cut all the airframe holes tonight and everything's piecing together peachily: Despite all my Illustrator pre-work and all the iteration ... [Read More]
Plaster City @ 108F... but it's a dry heat! (2010-06-06)Yesterday was the last Plaster City launch before the summer heat break. However heat arrived early as it was 80?F at 8AM and 108?F when I left at about 3:30PM!! My first flight of the day was ... [Read More]
Lucerne launch report, 7/10/10 (2010-07-11)Yesterday started cloudy but windless on the lakebed. I quickly prepped my newly-stable Squat rocket for the drag race my friend KO and I had planned. She was stuck in traffic so I then prepped and ... [Read More]
Building resumes (2016-07-24)After losing my stalwart DarkStar I decided that I would not rebuild it. Instead I purchased a 4" Punisher w/75mm mount at LDRS and the booster is already built: I really dig this volumetrically ... [Read More]
Holtville April 2, 2022 (2022-04-05)Oh hi there. I'm known to blog... occasionally. I attended the most recent launch at Holtville, CA and a fine day it was. I flew only a CTI 168H410 Vmax reload in my DarkStar ... [Read More]
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