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The below photos were taken at Black Rock, Nevada during the AEROPAC ARLISS/XPRS launch event, Sept. 11st through Sept. 16th.
Page 1 - Pictures of Bob's, Allen's, and Grant's Level 3 HPR certification flights.
This page - Pictures of other flights including ARLISS student teams, an unique multistage flight, and camp pictures.
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Bob prepares for his ARLISS flight with a student payload
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| Bob prepares the rocket for a student flight. |
Waiting for the sky to clear. | Waiting... |
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| Waiting... | Waiting... | Waiting... |
| The wind stayed strong and visibility poor all of Thursday and Friday morning. The assigned student team had designed a glider that would not work in the high winds. Finally, they gave up and returned to Japan. |
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Bob flies an Aerotech Demo motor in his ARLISS
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| The motor is a 98mm 3-grain Fast Black Jack. Average thrust is expected to be a little over 1300 Newtons |
We found the missing parts to our
launch pad. This is the first flight from it. Thanks Mike. |
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| Igniter installed | Final checks... | Ready to launch. |
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| There it goes... Black combustion smoke morphing to white tracking smoke. | ||||
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The demo motor performed wonderfully. It generated a plume of black smoke as it rumbled, taking the rocket straight up into the sky. Its power seemed equivalent to the M1419, but provides a better spectacle at launch. Another perfect flight. The MC2 would not upload its flight profile, but I uploaded one from the BeeLine GPS. BeeLine GPS flight profile (.kml file) |
Bob flies an Aerotech Demo motor in his DragonFire Endeavour
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| Preparing the CD3 | This K270W is a very long C-slot motor. |
Sliding DragonFire |
Attach the igniter clips. |
Final checks... |
| Sorry, no pictures of the flight, but the flight computer profile can be accessed below. G-Wiz MC2 flight profile |
Jeff flies a J415 in his Endeavour
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| Preparing the Endeavour to fly. | Ready to go... | ||
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| There it goes. | It's flying dual BeeLine
GPS transmitters so we don't lose it. |
Looks like the GPS units won't be needed. It's coming down right on the flight line. |
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It landed just 50 feet in front of our trailer. Does anyone want to bet that this is the closest recovery of the launch event? (If you bet, you lost. See below.) |
An even closer recovery
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| This rocket comes down on top of Rich Hagen's EZ-Up. Just 15 feet from our trailer. | |||
ARLISS student teams
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An unorthodox multi-stage flight
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This was supposed to be a 3-stage flight. The first stage flies beautifully, but both the 2nd and 3rd stage motors ignite at the same time. |
Miscellaneous pictures
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<==Grant working as the RSO. A Can Sat that we found ==> |
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| A hole opens up in the sky and eats a parachute. | |||
The flyers meeting
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Bye
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We accomplished our primary goals and had a great time despite the weather. Thanks to everyone for their support and company. AEROPAC is a great group of people. |