THOR launch February 2007 What a great day !! |
We had a good crowd, besides our more or less regular flyers Tsolo of rocketshots.com was able to make it back after WinterNats in South Florida. We also field tested a 'Mobile Landing Platform' - that big RV... Bob displaying his new modular design on right... |
Estes Patriot takes off and homes right into one of our greedy Rocket Eating Trees, luckily boys spotted it low enough to reach with recovery pole and the bird was rescued... |
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SR-71 flew its last mission even thou the Bullpup 12-D intended to shoot it down self-destructed on the pad... Classic Estes Saturn5 launched nice but had a wonky on recovery: The booster chute did not deploy and it came tumbling back down. I caught a pic a split second before it clipped the back corner of the RV - you can barely see it inside the white ring... Damaged fin shroud, not too bad... |
Our visiting clusternut Tsolo on left, while Manuel and Andy inspect a parawad... |