[Rockets] 11/14 Wilsonville Memorial Park Launch Report

[Keith Packard]

It's the first anniversary of the Wilsonville model launches! We've been
flying for a whole year now, and I want to thank OROC, and especially
Robert Krausert and Tim Ryerse for their help in organizing and running
these events.

The weather was unexpectedly nice; a high cloud layer, well above our
launch ceiling, no wind and no rain made for a day with no lost rockets.
There must be something about November and rocketry though -- we had a
good sized crowd at the park last weekend, and they flew a *lot* of
rockets:

                Launches:           71
                Successful flights: 54
                Flyers:             18
                Rockets:            39
                Most Flights:       11 Gene G
                                    10 Sutton W
                Biggest Motor:      E28-4 Keith P

Gene and Sutton just kept bringing rockets up to the LCO table and
putting them up in the air. We had a rash of recovery failures this
month, most of those were chutes that failed to unwad themselves after
ejection. Looks like we could use a bit of education on the application
of talc and some parachute folding tips.

We held a contest for the closest landing to the pitcher's mound. I'm
afraid I neglected to write down the name of the winner though; perhaps
someone else remembers? In any case, the winning rocket landed
*on* the mound, while several managed to land within a few paces. Low
winds certainly make for short walks. Of course, Tim's R2D2 got the
'closest to the pad' award when it failed to even get off the rod...

Thanks much to Tim Ryerse for coming out early to help set up, we'll see
you all next year in Wilsonville!

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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