My brother in law, Michael, tests the parachute of his very first model rocket, the Deuce's Wild!, built the night before.
A Cub Scout and his sister display their Triskelion rockets
Bill Ralston (holding the Dude rocket center) prepares his Dude for a drag race with the Decaffeinator.
The Decaffeinator never left the pad, but the Dude turned in a great flight!
After changing the ignitor, we finally got the Decaffeinator into the air!
And back down again too!
A recently launched Corona returns under a FlisKits parachute with a spill hole cut to reduce drift
A beautiful V2 leaves the pad on a D12
Beautiful flight and a near-field landing too!
A Praetor takes to the air!
One of the Triskelion rockets shoots skyward. There were more Triskelion, Rhino and Deuce's Wild! kits in the air today than you could shake a stick at!
Perfect up and perfect down!
Mike hooks up the igniter leads for his first ever model rocket flight. (man, he flew this thing FOUR times today!)
A Rhino takes to the air. In this picture, you get a good view of the entire launch area.
Very little wind today resulted in many near-field landings.
The Espresso is ready as Bill reads the flight card over the P.A. system.
She doesn't look like she'd go very high, but even the 1/2A motors send her a good distance up!
Bob Krech's Long OverDue zips into the sky, only to be lost in a sea of condo's...
John Cronin and one of his students show off their Deuce's Wild! kits before preping them for a drag race.
And here comes the Long OverDue, right back to the field!
Bob proudly displays one of his many incredible paper scale models.
Billy and Bill Ralston drag race Rhino's
Doug with his Triskelion, getting ready for the 3-way drag race!
Getting closer on the Deuce drag race, one set of clips are hooked up.
...followed by the other set
In the mean time, on the other side of the launch site, the Triskelion race is about to begin (that's Doug's Triskelion in the foreground on pad #9)
3-2-1-LIFTOFF!, the race is VERY close and stayed so for the entire flight. It was like they were flying in formation, even on the return under chute!
A very cool scratchbuilt that reminded me of a similar one that I did many, many years ago.
Bill displays the unusual paint job on his Drake model rocket kit. (you gotta just LOVE those eyes, eh?)
A perfect launch!
A perfect flight!
A lousy landing...
...lost atop a tall tree...
This was flight #476 for my Sprint'73, slated for retirement at 500. I flew her 5 times today!
Yowza! Here we have a 3-way Deuce Drag Race!
Flight #477
Mike's Deuce on C6-5 motors. This one drifted over to the condo complex and resulted in quite a walk to retreive.
My "Diminutive Deuce" on MMX-II motors. Bill Spadafora helped me rig the ignitors and I had a perfect flight, but missed the launch picture. Launched it again later on for another perfect flight.
Corona away!
The Tri-Glid ready for a flight
And away she goes on a B6-4 for a perfect flight. The deployed her parachute and all 3 gliders at apogee and the gliders flew formation around the main ship most of the way down. All gliders recovered!
Bill's Richter Recker turns in a perfect flight even though he only got 2 of the 3 motors lit.
Near field recovery was a blessing
A beautifully finished Overdrive model turned in an incredible flight!
Doug with his two stage saucer concept using an MMX saucer for the sustainer.
My 2-stage saucer combination is the Pheord X150 giving a push start to an Athena (one of the saucers in the Triple Threat)
We were also visited by a very unusual aircraft
Mike's Deuce off again!
I decided to fly my 4-H version of the Caution rocket.
Perfect flight and recovery. Great job for a free rocket!
Here she is, the Sprint'73 posing for her last flight of the day
Mike (left) and Bill watch other flights while waiting for their turn. That's Mike's Deuce on Pad 1
Off she goes on flight #480, and a perfect flight it was too!
Mike and Bill's Deuce's take to the air!
Here, Bob preps one of his paper rockets. I tried several times to capture these on film, but to no avail.
The last picture, a 3-way Deuce's Wild! drag race. A good way to end the day!