A beautiful upscale of our Long OverDue kit.
Our NERRF booth with me, my brother Joe and niece Rebecca. We had family visit our booth all 3 days of NERRF. It was great.
Greg's Flying Tetrahedron of Doom, which I quickly renamed "Oh crap! Duck!"
Some beautiful kit-bashes of our Triskelion kit. It's amazing what you can do with a bag of tubes, balsa and an imagination!
The proud papa with his creations.
The upscale Long OverDue on pad Red 1
High powered tube finned rocket takes to the air.
A Nike screams off the HPR pad!
Folks keeping an eye skyward during recovery.
Maggie with her Richter Recker. Notice the bend in the tube. This is why you don't keep long skinny rockets laying in the sun. A few hours of cooling off in the shade straightened her right out.
A different Richter Recker (there were many of them out this weekend) takes to the air on a triplet of E9 motors.
And a US TOG makes its way to the pads
An Alien8 streaks skyward!
This beast attracted a lot of attention both on the ground and in the air!
Robert DeHate showing me his carbon fiber 13mm 2-stage model with in-flight electronic ignition of the sustainer. Simply incredible example of high-tech design and implementation!
This picture shows off the small electronic components including altimeter and firing circuits. Those units are about 3/8" in diameter!
A 1:60th scale Patriot next to the 1:61 scale MTTM Honest John.
Tony Vincent poses with his beautifully finished US TOG
Another angle highlights the ram jet tubes and internal fins.
And what launch is complete with out an A.C.M.E. Spitfire! Done up in chrome, no less! Beautiful.
A StarLoad outfitted for dual-deploy leaps off the pad for a perfect flight.
Tony's US TOG
Profile view just before launch.
And another Alien8 too!
Our booth is looking good!
The NERRF3 group photo had so many people it was hard to get them all in!
I really WAS there as can be seen in this zoomed view.
The up scale Trisklion I have come to love. It even has my autograph on the fin there!
Dual glider carrying Decaffeinators set to rip up the sky!
And off they go!
Ok, I found this little traffic cone at a party shop and couldn't resist. Standing only about 1" tall she makes a perfect Micromaxx conversion. Flew great too!
Many launches from the HPR pads kept the action going.
Our soon to be announced HERC-5 model on pad 5 no less!
Here's a nice rack of rockets on the CMASS pads.
One of the issues with this launch however was the occasional use of group launches to help clear the pads. Here we can see two models going up. I barely got the launch pix of the Deuce, but I got it!
As they began to transport this massive Honest John model, I couldn't resist having the team pose with our 1:61 scale micro Honest John
This massive husky seemed to like the shade of our tent. A beautiful pup with a heart of gold.
The kids start to arrive on the field with the Whatchamacallit kits they built over the weekend
Beautifully finished and ready to go!
The girls are determined to out-do the boys on this special day!
Another fine pix of the upscale Triskelion
To open the day on Sunday, we had a drag race with Whatchamacallit kits ready to burn BP
Try as we may, we could not get all 11 birds in the air at once. First shot we got half. Second attempt we got half of what was left, and so on, till the last launch consisted of just one lone Whatchamacallit... We had a blast though!
This beautiful HPR scale bird was put on display for much of the day
An interesting angle for this bird.
A Tres on the LPR pads awaits its turn
Another shot of our booth
This Deltie turned in several impressive flights.
Trouble brewing. With only 2 motors burning and the wind not cooperating, she did a power prang down range.
Another HPR bird takes to the sky
Beautiful shot showing the color against hazy skies.
My Praetor II proto puts in another perfect flight
And a perfect recovery too!
A good example of how to tape up the back of the Richter Recker if you built it for standard length 24mm motors but want to use E motors sticking further out the back end.
A Drake finds her way into the air!
Lots of power at NERRF!
And good recoveries too!