Great Stuff Dan. I know Mike from past. Have built and flown many of his great birds.Wow, man, I've never even seen anything that big in person! The largest motor/highest flight I have ever seen launch was a minimum diameter M-powered rocket that went to around 20,000'. Our 'big' rocket field is in Brothers, Oregon - lots of Ks and Ls, but anything bigger is pretty special. I've never gotten beyond level I, but once my son gets big enough to handle a full day in the field I plan to get back into it and finally do my L2.
I don't know if you have met Mike Fisher (Binder Designs) but he is a really good guy and lives near me. I have messed around with some EX stuff with him, fun stuff for sure.
I have run an after school Rocket Club for the last 14 years, we have an average of about thirty members and build/launch twice a week from Spring Break until Summer Vacation. While looking through the clearance section of Belleville Wholesale Hobby I ran across an Interceptor-G kit. That became Chester's Cheeto Chaser, my first mid-power rocket.
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This is my old Tiny Pterodactyl, my first "High-Power" rocket (it just fits an H). It now lives somewhere in the sagebrush of Eastern Oregon....
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Picture from a launch - you can see Chester's Cheeto Chaser #2 in the background:
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Anyways, we definitely need a rocketry thread in the lounge, even if is just the two of us!
We have several ranges to chose from locally. The closes two from me both are in open range land with miles of nothing. The main site we do research launches from has a standing waiver of 20,000 agl with windows to 50,000 agl with call in. We currently have a large Rocket hanging in the Denver Museum as the largest amateur rocket in Co. Flew it at the first Xprize event in NM.
FUN!! STUFF! Never know Maybe get to hook up some day at a launch together! Hopefully you can pass on all this fun stuff like rockets and fish to your son.
Great pics Bud!!
Wife and kid coming back from overseas today so have to behave myself.
