Our first club launch of the year!  It was cold and windy.  It was perfect!  Would we have enjoyed a warmer, calmer day?  Of course we would, but we were flying rockets.  It was perfect!

We saw a large crowd there.  At one time I counted over 80 cars.  We had lots of families, lots of new-comers and, of course, the usual collection of die-hard rocketeers wanting to fly and enjoy the beginnings of the season.

For me, this marked my 10th launch of the season and it was only April for crying out loud!  I flew most of our Micromaxx® line, including many yet to be announced kits.  I also got to fly the maiden flight of our soon to be announced Adfecta kit ("Aspire" in Latin).  We saw many FlisKits models in the air this day along with a host of other kits including many scratchbuilt beauties.

My daughter, Jen, showed up around noon time to enjoy the day and provide some much desired help with my booth.  Having a second person there allows me to fly and socialize without worry about manning the booth.  It is truly a great help (thank you Jen!).

We had several rockets get hung up on the launch rods.   I am not sure if this was a case of gummed up rods or misplaced launch lugs (or a mix of the two), but we got past that.  We saw a cato or two, but not much in that respect.  We saw MANY perfect flights, a hybrid, two cert flights (successful, congratulations!) and several high power birds on the away cells.

In all over 300 flights logged for the day.  I have said it before and I will say it again.  CMASS has the best organized most family friendly launches in the country!  All club members should be proud to belong to such an organization and you should go out of your way to thank the core group who always makes sure that the work is done and the field ready for flight when you arrive!

Here is a short photo album.  Not many good pix as my camera settings were not correct for the overcast skies.

Enjoy!