TRA 01 Report
March 07, 2010


Those that did not make it out this weekend missed a great weekend to fly rockets for our 1st BRS research launch held at Sims Farm. Joe and I had a great time today. What a great day to fly rockets.

We had 2 fliers with 13 flights and 13 motors burned. The total impulse was 2769.74ns. a little more than a CTI L730 n-s .

Motor breakdown:

Motor breakdown commercial:

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

    Motor breakdown research:

  • A - 1
  • B - 0
  • C - 0
  • D - 1
  • E - 0
  • F - 0
  • G - 0
  • H - 1
  • I - 1


    Flyers and their Birds.
    Name Flights Comments
    Joe Magginnis 8
    1. Metalizer (A8-3) 1st flight if the day.
    2. Big Betty (D12-7) Great flight.
    3. Ranger 24 (D12-5) Lost nose cone.
    4. Small Endeavour (F36BS) Maiden flight and Joe's 1st CTI motor.
    5. Minnie Magg (H123W) Always a good flight with this motor.
    6. Minnie Magg (H123W) Always a good flight with this motor.
    7. Jackhammer (I245G) Maiden flight. Chose a longer delay and created a nice long zipper in the process.
    8. Goblin 4" (I117FJ) Maiden flight. Great flight for about 100 feet then a beautiful loop de loop several times and landing on the ground before the ejection charge went off. Later in the day realized I had used the wrong (lighter) nose cone.
    Darryl Hankes 5
    1. Crooked Cross (H250G) Nice flight.
    2. Lil Red (A2 Screamer) 7.5mm AP research motor 2.5ns total impulse. Recovery charge failed to ignite. No damage.
    3. OB (D10) 24mm BP research motor with an estimated 15ns total impulse. Worked well.
    4. Red Crayon (H140 White) 38mm 2-grain 200ns total impulse research motor produced a beautiful flight. Motor formula and manufacture technique is a deep dark secret only Darryl knows.
    5. Red Crayon (I300 White) 38mm 4-grain 400ns total impulse research motor. Could not asked for a more awesome flight in an awesome rocket.


    The next time I am going to try and get to the farm will be 3/20/10 commercial launch and 3/21/10 research launch.
    (Note: Research Launch was cancelled due to adverse weather.)

    Darryl


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