[Rockets] 04/11 Wilsonville Memorial Park Launch Report

[Keith Packard]

Wow. That's about all I can say after spending an hour entering flight
data this evening:

     Launches:                 114
     Successful flights:        98
     Flyers:                    54
     Rockets:                   71
     Most Flights:               9 Ed McBride
     Biggest Motor:            F40 Ian Welsh

We counted 79 people at the launch, and at one point we were stacked up
three racks deep. If this size crowd shows up again, we're gonna need
more rods.

The weather was favorable with light winds and a cloud deck plenty high
for this field. The wind was from the north, which isn't ideal as we use
the southern ball fields. Tilting the rods towards the north helped keep
more rockets out of the trees, but we lost a few even still. Lower
flights and smaller chutes (or streamers) were the rule of the day.

Chris G brought his church youth group to fly several models. And then,
about an hour after we opened up, a cub scout troop showed up with more
Alpha's than I've ever seen in one place. They brought a pack of Quest
A6-4 motors and I have to say that these were a lot of fun -- slowly
coming up to pressure, they sounded like a much bigger motor. And, none
of the A6-4 flights ended up in the trees.

Austin T flew a fabulous spider-shaped saucer and the USS
Enterprise. Steve Tarr helped aerate the lawn with his Acme
Spitfire. Emily K came out with a hot-pink rocket she called 'Pink
Panther'. Ed McBride and Steve Tarr both flew gliders, and neither of
them got stuck in the trees. Finally, Tim Ryerse closed out the show
with the first flight of his Frick-n-Frack

I didn't get the cub scout troop number written down, but congrats to
them for many successful flights, and I hope they'll be back.

Thanks to Ed McBride for helping get things set up, and of course to
everyone who stayed afterwards to help carry stuff back to the cars.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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