Tampa TRA 4-18-2009 at Varn Ranch |
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Well folks, it was a long time coming but I finally had another launch window with Tampa prefecture of Tripoli Rocketry Association, called TTRA among friends... Besides rather blustery winds it was a good day filled to brim with rocketry fun. I was monkeying with my new HD camcorder and caught a few clips, also flew my older camcorder onboard Crayon X3 for the first time in months. Please surf around and enjoy ! |
| TampaTRA 5-16-2009 |
Ok, yet another month rolled by and again it was time for a fun filled day with the great folks at TTRA. During the past four weeks I was able to rebuild the burned booster stage of my Valkyrie3. Damage turned out to be mostly superficial, so I completely removed the top layer plus parts of the second layer of fiberglassing and did it all over. Wearing her fresh coat of paint she successfully demoed a Gorilla K520 Red Twister - courtesy of Jim Harris - with new formulation for brighter red flame and topped at 5364 feet. Not bad busting a mile again a mere four weeks after a nasty fire. By the way - Paul Robinson of AMW most graciously replaced that damaged motor casing for free. That is some awesome customer service from our onsite vendors, Thank You all so much !! I'm hoping to get a pic or two from that take-off since I still haven't found my camera that is MIA somewhere around the house... My CrayonX3 also had another flight with onboard videocamera, this time she honked off the pad on a AMW/ProX I-287 Black Bear to an estimated altitude of 3000 feet. That thick dark smoke made a nice trail clearly visible on the videoclip, check it out... I also posted a few still images of that clip for your pleasure, please enjoy !! |
