ARR Blue Phenix Senior on an Aerotech K700 (2011-05-31)

This is Randy, Owner of Always Ready Rocketry, this is my Blue Phenix Sr. kit that I offer on my website. This one is slightly modified to accept a much longer motor. This flight is on a K700 White Lightning, Altitude was 5935. It is a 4 inch kit and utilized my Blue Tube airframes.

Blue Phenix Sr. on an Aerotech K375NW-P (2011-08-20)

Tony McCrea's Blue Phenix Sr. Custom Blue Tube kit from Always Ready Rocketry with extended booster and tailcone. He bagged his Level 2 certification on the ever popular Aerotech J350 and then followed that right up with the very rare and unique Karl E. Baumann signature Aerotech K375NW-P motor! That reload is for the 54/2560 case and features a dual thrust profile with 5 grains of propellant. The bottom grain is a Warp-9 grain and the top four are classic White Lightning. The result is a 300 lb thrust spike for 0.7 seconds followed up with about 4 seconds of long burn smoke and fire. Very very cool.. The rocket went 7400 feet and almost 800 mph breaking Mach 1 easily. Recovery was in the field. Congratulations Tony!! PS Video is "ok" but sound is awesome.. What a hammer! off the pad!

Blue Tube Warp 9 (2011-05-29)

Robert Synoski's scratch built 2.6 inch Blue Tube v1.0 rocket flying on a 54mm Aerotech J1999 Warp 9 motor. Rocket weighed about 6 pounds and the motor is 491 lbs of thrust for only a half second. Altitude and location are unknown as the tracking transmitter stopped sending and Robert's notion is that the g forces pulled the battery off of the electronics. It sounded like a gunshot and if the simulation data is to be believed, it hit about 750 mph in a half second, about as fast as a .22 short. The airframe was just plain Blue Tube with red fins, nose and clearcoat over it. Estimating at least 80 g's of acceleration!

Full scale AMRAAM rocket (2011-06-25)

My NAR Level 3 certification flight on a Aerotech M1315W. Loaded weight is 52 pounds, 12 feet long, 7.5" in diameter. Altitude was 5610', max velocity was 423 mph in 3.3 seconds.

M2000Blue.wmv (2011-09-29)

Static test - 4 grain 98mm blue propellant. Approx 450 lbs thrust approx 3.5 seconds, est 8knS. 4kg propellant mass, Loki 98-10000 case. www.alwaysreadyrocketry.com