| Aerotech Initiator Fail (2012-09-19) First (and last) flight of my son's Aerotech Initiator. The motor chuffed for a few seconds before generating enough thrust to clear the pad, but it arced to the right, had a nice bonus delay, and found a hungry tree. Lost my nice Rouse-Tech RMS 29/40-120 casing.
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| Aerotech Initiator rocket on an F20-4W engine with camera (2011-12-31) Ignore the date, it was actually taken 12/30/2011. First time trying out new camera I picked up for $16 on Ebay. The parachute wrapped and failed to fully deploy and a fin was broken on landing. I'll fix it up with some Epoxy tonight.
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| Aerotech Sumo First Flight w/onboard camera (2012-03-09) First launch of my Aerotech Sumo using a G76-4G Mojave Green motor. I attached my 808 keychain cam and also recorded the flight looking down from the rocket. It landed about 25 feet from the launch pad, I managed to catch it. During construction, the piston ejection system was so tight it made me nervous even after a ton of sanding so I left it out and went with a parachute blast protector.
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| G-FORCE Final Flight (2014-01-18) A sticky body tube coupler doomed my trusty G-Force rocket to a lake stake in a retention pond. I recovered everything but the nose cone, which is buried in ...
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| G-Force Rocket (2012-03-09) Aerotech G-Force Rocket. Two launches from 2/18/2012, with video from both ground and on board flight cams. Enjoy!
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| Level 1 Certification Flight - High Power rocket (2012-04-15) Level one certification flight, using a Mad Cow Phoenix and an RMS 38/240 H148R engine. I drilled out 4 seconds of delay. It went pretty deep in the woods, took awhile to find, but it was a successful flight and certification.
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| Level 2 Certification Flight (2013-06-19) |
| LOC Bruiser launch, TTRA (2012-09-19) LOC Bruiser launch, TTRA at Plant City, FL. Powering the flight was a CTI J453 White Thunder in a 6XL casing.
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| LOC Fantom Ground Test (2012-09-19) First attempt at testing sheer pins used for nose cone retention on a dual deployment rocket.
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| Rocket Cams (2012-03-05) Launch Day on Merritt Island. Flew my 808 keychain cam on a couple of flights.
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| Rocket Launch Compilation (2012-03-09) Various launches, 2/18/2012
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