NEFAR Bunnell Blast Nov. 11-12 2006 Page 2 |
Here's two nice launches by unknown birds, one of these days I gotta start making notes... If you have any info on these, please let me know and I'll post it here... The one on top left looks like an Aerotech Sumo, but who built it ? On the left is Mark Ettinger's beautiful 2.6" Thor clone under full boost. Straight as an arrow, you just gotta love that split-fin design... Last time I was at NEFAR, I had a squadron of Vipers with me, so this time I wanted to fly something different. It was time for a 'Crayon Fest': The whole X-series and their new little cousin, blue Crayon 3E were ready to rip... First off the gates was X3 on AMW J440BB for my level2 cert flight (pix and/or video later), Then 3E for her maiden flight, on which the shock cord got roasted apart right past the kevlar leader and she came thunking down. Luckily no damage, just some dirt on a fin... Next I flew my new X2 for her first time, and that was also my first clustered HPR flight, man, those twin H238T's really kick hard off the pad, blink and she's gone... Brian Coyle (brianc@TRF) got a nice lift-off pic of X1 taking to skies on AT G75J (bottom left), I also had a padcam set up for that flight, Video Here Note to self: next time set camera upwind when launching smoky loads... DUHH ! |
| Since the blue one got no damage on its first hard landing, I yanked out the rest of the old shockie and hoofed it over to Bernie's hut from Giant Leap Rocketry, grabbed about 14 feet length of tubular kevlar and fixed her up while muttering to myself '...now try roasting this !' So up she went again and like you guessed it, the new shock cord didn't get roasted at all - but she tangled her chute into a 'parawad', and came down in a fast tail slide landing into tall grass near a ditch not that far from the spectator gallery... She's a lucky one, two hard landings and no damage at all, but one of these days she's gotta learn how to fly AND LAND.... Pic of my shop on left, it was such a nice day we left the canopy unpacked... |
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| Two excellent launch shots of my new CrayonX2 that I shamelessly swiped off of Roger Smith's site at PayloadBay Gallery Check it out folks, its loaded for bear with awesome pics. Big Thanks to you Roger (Jadebox@TRF)! She really ripped on twin AT H238T's for my first HPR cluster flight, onboard videoclips here: |