[Rockets] [RocketsNW] [OROC Members] 04/18 OROC Tillamook Launch Report

[Robert Krausert]

Keith, Fred, all,
I'm ticked that I missed this one. Been working all day. What an amazing day 
based on the report. DARN IT!! I wish I would have been there.

Cheers,
Robert
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Azinger" <fred at azinger.com>
To: "'Keith Packard'" <keithp at keithp.com>; "'members'" 
<members at oregonrocketry.org>; "'rockets'" <rockets at rocketsnw.com>; 
<rockets at keithp.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [RocketsNW] [OROC Members] 04/18 OROC Tillamook Launch Report


> Great job to Keith and Randy for doing the bulk of the heavy lifting to 
> run this launch.
> Also Kudos to the weatherman -- we are batting 1000% for costal weather.
>
> What a fun day and what a great job by the PSAS crowd to pound out a bunch 
> of L1 certs in style with some really nice I impulse flights.  I'm looking 
> forward to a hearty round-2 from these guys in May as they go for their 
> L2's.  Nice job guys!
>
> Always wanted to be first at something -- first to the roof of the blimp 
> hangar
> That's me ;-)
> Just trying to improve the Museum's curb appeal with a little accent ;-)
>
> BTW -- Just a small correction -- Steve already has his ticket punched.
>
> Thanks OROC!
> Let's do it again!
> FredA
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-bounces at oregonrocketry.org 
> [mailto:members-bounces at oregonrocketry.org] On Behalf Of Keith Packard
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 9:59 PM
> To: members; rockets; rockets at keithp.com
> Subject: [OROC Members] 04/18 OROC Tillamook Launch Report
>
>
> Carefully sneaking into a weather window, the OROC gang descended on the 
> Tillamook airport today. I don't think anyone counted the crowd, but it 
> was impressive. Winds were calm while setting up, and gradually increased 
> until I was wondering whether we'd need to suspend flight operations, but 
> then as the afternoon wore on, the winds abated. Fortunately, almost all 
> of the rockets landed on the airport. Some a bit harder than others.
>
> Nine people came out to get their L1 ticket, eight of them under TRA rules 
> and one NAR:
>
> Don Coon                H123    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
> Steve Cutonilli         I205    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
> Mike LaRochelle         H123    NAR L1 David Armstrong & Keith Packard
> David Camarillo         I600    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
> Andrew Greenberg        I245    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
> Dan Kirkpatrick         I600    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
> Casy Repp               I366    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
> Jeremy Booth            I366    TRA L1 Fred Azinger
>
> We had one spectacular L1 cert failure today -- Ben Kaplin's Liberty 4 
> failed to deploy the chute and lawn darted into the pavement. That stuff 
> is hard. We all felt for you today, Ben.
>
> A big "thank you" to Fred for coming out to watch all of these TRA 
> flights. Seven new L1 flyers in one day has got to be some kind of record, 
> at least for April.
>
> Fred was kept busy all day watching cert flighs. He managed to get one 
> launch in -- his Small Endevour was the only lost rocket today. It landed 
> east of the airport on top of the AIR MUSÉUM -- the 'E' is now accented 
> with a chute and an airframe.
>
> Bernard Cawley kept coming up to the LCO table with new airframes, for the 
> last flight of the day he had a tiny little Crayon rocket with a 1/8A 
> motor. A delightful way to close out a beautiful day.
>
> We also got quite the lesson in helicopter flight operations today, with 
> one pilot practicing landings for about 30 minutes while we got to watch. 
> There were several other planes in the air for while, but eventually they 
> all got bored and we had the airport to ourselves for the last hour or so. 
> With all of that traffic, we still managed to get in an impressive number 
> of launches.
>
> The usual launch stats:
>
>       Launches:                61
>       Successful flights:      54
>       Flyers:                  29
>       Rockets:                 53
>       Most Flights:            13 Bernard Cawley
>       Biggest Motor:           I600 Dan Kirkpatrick/David Camarillo
>
> A huge thanks to Randy Birzer for getting the waiver and running LCO most 
> of the day today. And, our loyal Launch Organizer, Robert Nech for 
> arranging this most excellent new launch site, and to the staff of the 
> Tillamook airport for letting us come and fly.
>
> With this many people attending, we need to think about getting more high 
> power GSE to this launch; Randy brought a 4' rail, but that was all we 
> had. One more 8' long 1010 rail would really have helped reduce launch 
> delays.
>
> --
> keith.packard at intel.com
>
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