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Feb 26th, 2009, 11:52am
 
We will have an adequate supply of N2O on site as well as O2 for the hypertek GSE. The altitude waiver is 25000 feet so bring flight vehicles also.
 
Testing and flights are for both Sat and Sun. Friday is a setup and orientation day.
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Reply #1 - Mar 1st, 2009, 10:03pm
 
Ferretworks is bringing out a video theodolite for tracking flights. See your deployment take place on video!
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Reply #2 - Mar 8th, 2009, 7:20pm
 
Saturday was great, thanks for the invite. Its a shame so many rockets failed though, all part of the process i guess.
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Reply #3 - Mar 9th, 2009, 8:22pm
 
A brief account of the event: A large bi-prop vehicle suffered a hard start and blew off the ox dome; the Lunar Lander Contender suffered a broken vent valve as it rose too rapidly and hit the crane to which it was tendered. Subsequently though 3 flights were successes. The exotic Hybrid Fuel grain test was not exactly a failure as it was not started due to failures eventually traced to a failure of both the ox valve and the ox regulator; since they were in series, the diagnostic took the entire day. (On Sunday the exotic grain was fired with spectacular results). One class hybrid was lost in an airlines mixup but finally arrived for a successful test on Sunday. The Jakobs/Mascheki/Colburn 4 inch hybrid was burned successfully for 15 seconds with 285 lbf of thrust.
 
Many, too many to recollect, solid powerd vehicles were flown including three solid fueled ram jets.
 
On Sunday the video theodolite was set up 2.5 miles from the launch area and tested for its ability to track rockets.
 
All-in-all a lot of activity to enjoy and thanks to all who attended and/or participated.
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