BlueSkies 38 Report
March 06, 2010


What a great day to fly rockets. The clear blue skies and temps in the 60's invited all to fly rockets all day long.

We had 8 fliers with 32 flights and 36 motors burned. The total impulse was 4551.8 ns.(Aerotech L1300) .

Motor breakdown:

  • 1/8A - 0
  • 1/4A - 1
  • 1/2A - 3
  • A - 0
  • B - 0
  • C - 11
  • D - 6
  • E - 5
  • F - 2
  • G - 2
  • H - 0
  • I - 5
  • J - 1
  • K - 0
  • L - 0


    Flyers and their Birds.
    Name Flights Comments
    Patrick Peterson 10
    1. Green Hornet (C6-3) Trying for flight close to 30 sec. Streamer Tangled.
    2. Green Hornet (C6-3) Trying for flight close to 30 sec. Got 31 - 37 sec.
    3. Green Hornet (C6-3) Trying for flight close to 30 sec. Got 31 - 37 sec.
    4. Green Hornet (C6-3) Trying for flight close to 30 sec. Got 31 - 37 sec.
    5. Green Hornet (C6-3) Trying for flight close to 30 sec. Got 31 - 37 sec.
    6. Apogee (D5-P) All decent flights.
    7. Apogee (D5-P) All decent flights.
    8. Apogee (D5-P) All decent flights.
    9. Vi (C6-0) Decent Flight.
    10. D-Angel (D7) Shredded wing and Pod. Lost reload casing. Can not withstand the forces of an Aerotech D7 reload.
    Joe Magginnis 7
    1. Metalizer (C5-3) First Flight of the Day.
    2. Metalizer (C6-3) Great Flight.
    3. Ranger 24 mm (D12-5) Great Flight.
    4. Ranger 24 mm (D12-5) Great Flight.
    5. Batray (F42-8T) Great Flight.
    6. Batray (F42-8T) Great Flight.
    7. Super Big Bertha (E9-6 x 4) Great Flight.
    Joe Simon 7
    1. Flying Why (C6-3) Great Flight.
    2. Frick-n-Frack (C6-0) Great Flight.
    3. Earth (1/2A3-2T) Great Flight for a flying saucer made of paper.
    4. Moon (1/2A3-2T) Great Flight for a flying saucer made of paper.
    5. Mars (1/2A3-2T) Great Flight for a flying saucer made of paper.
    6. Tiny Teradactyl (G64-7W) Great Flight.
    7. T25 Centurion (E9-P) Still needs some work. It crashed but can be fixed.
    Darryl Hankes 3
    1. Orange (1/4A3-4T). Great Flight.
    2. G3 (I376GG). great Flight
    3. Jayhawk (J528) Great Flight until the motor delay failed and caused pre mature ejection.
    Brooks Clark 2
    1. Intruder (I357) Great Flight. L1 Certification completed. Congrats.
    2. UC Prime (I435) Great Flight.
    Brandon Lawless 1
    1. UC Prime (I284) Great Flight. L1 Certification completed.
    Justin Niehaus 1
    1. Silver Arrow Mk1 (I540) Great Flight. L1 Certification completed.
    Ed Seward 1
    1. V2 (G64-4) Great Flight.


    When the day was done there were a lot of tired rocketeers and 3 new L1 Certified fliers.
    Congratulations for achieving certification level 1 goes to:

    1. Brooks Clark for successfully flying his Intruder on an I 357

    2. Justin Niehause for successfully flying his Silver Arrow Mk1 on an I540.

    3. Branden Lawless for flying a UC Prime on an I284.
    Patrick Peterson, Thanks for entertaining us with the R/C gliders. Sorry for the lost reload casing.

    Joe Simon, Thanks for coming and spending the day with us. We really enjoyed the saucers. A special thanks for sticking around and helping me tear down the low and mid power launch areas. You and Darrel saved me a lot of time.

    Ed Seward, Welcome to the club and thanks for your help on Saturday. We usually do not work first timers that hard but you helped us a bunch and we really appreciate it even though you only got in one flight. Bring more next time. Paint optional.
    All but 3 of the pictures were shot by Ed Seward which also made him work for his keep. Hope to see you as a member of bluesrocks real soon.
    Thanks for all your input and help at the launch.

    Darryl Hankes, Thanks for supplying motors so we could fly the big uns, calling in the waiver and sharing you knowledge of rockets and motors to us. Your help in setting up and tearing down are greatly appreciated. Thanks for all the effort and hard work you put into making our club top notch.

    Our next Sport launch is March 20, 2010 with a TRA Research launch on March 21, 2010. Both launches are at Sims Farm between 9 - 5 if weather permits.

    Stay tuned to the Bluegrass Rocketry Society web site for launch schedule updates.

    See you there.

    Joe Magginnis


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