A good rack of good rockets on a sea of green
Early in the launch I got Dudley all ready for flight and out to the pad (note the 3.5:1 upscale Port-A-Pad)
A 2 motor cluster bird
Some great launches this day. Wind was very mild.
One of the X-Prize models takes to the air!
A Deuce's Wild! with but one motor burning...
Another rack ready to go. Note Dudley in the background
Tia's MMX rocket glider. Incredible! (note the Birdie there too!)
An Estes Oracal takes some video of the event.
My Sprint'73 getting in some more flights before NARAM
Sprint'73 takes to the air!
She broke a fin on this flight and will need repair before I fly her again. Next week at CMASS!
A fine rack of rockets! You can see my 2-stage saucer (Pheord X150 with the Athena from the Triple Threat kit)
A nice background for a great launch. I beleive this model belongs to the boy standing, with the orange stripe on his shirt.
Another rack including my signed Deuce's Wild!
Two motors buring, a good flight
One of the most unusual looking birds I've seen in a while. That model on Pad 5 is a boost glider...
The owner of the boost glider checks the igniter after a mis-fire.
Launch! An interesting boost but the glider didn't deploy if I remember correctly.
Jim Flis working on assemblying Dudley Do-Right before launch (Photo by Al Gloer)
Everything out at the pad, almost ready to go
(Photo by Al Gloer)
Jim with the pieces getting ready to assemble it at the pad
(Photo by Al Gloer)
And we have LIFTOFF! Al caught this great shot of Dudley's first flight. A perfect launch and full recovery deployment. Slight damage with cup separation on landing, but easily fixed. She's on her way to NARAM!
(Photo by Al Gloer)
A close up of the blast deflector showing 4 marks, one for each motor
Here she is after the flight. You can see the fin unit snapped off. This took about 20 minutes to repair and she was ready for flight again!
I don't have their names, but these folks won a FlisKits kit in a club drawing!