Bloody miserably Lincolnshire weather! It always rains at K-Lob. Err, hang on, it wasn't like that at all this year. We had great weather all weekend! But, even though it was great weather, many of us were just there as spectators. Still those that did fly made the most of it.
Pete had there L2 cert attempts over the weekend, one on each day (let's call Friday part of the weekend, OK?). The first two failed due to slight recovery problems. Fidays, the main came out at apogee, Saturday, it cameoyut at teh right time, but didn't fuly open. Neither failure damaged the rocket, a PML AMRAAM 3 converted for CPR by the name of Mint Source.
He nearly didn't make the third attempt, but he was "persuaded" by Angela who had given up all her flights for the weekend to help Pete cert. After doing the rounds of NSRG RSOs (Mike & Darren) he caught up with Brian on Sunday, and also took some parachute packing advice from Andy "can I help you with that?" Issot.
We were all very pleased when Pete certified on the Sunday with a textbook third flight. It's not many brand new L2 fliers that have that much experience fo J motors ;-)
Friday | |||
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Flier | Rocket | Motor | Comments |
George Rogozinski | SAAB RB-05A | I357-10 | First flight |
Pete Waddington | Mint Source | J360 | L2 Cert – fail |
Saturday | |||
Flier | Rocket | Motor | Comments |
Brian Best | Minnie Magg | I170 | |
Brian Best | Warlock | J360 | |
George Rogozinski | Diablo | H242-T | |
George Rogozinski | SAAB RB-05A | I240 | |
Pete Waddington | Mint Source | J300 | L2 Cert - fail |
Shaun Longhorn | Mighty Kat | D12-5,7xC6-5 | |
Sunday | |||
Flier | Rocket | Motor | Comments |
Brian Best | Jayhawk | F40-4W | |
Brian Best | Black Brant | F52-5T | |
Brian Best | Emperor Blobbo | I300T | |
George Rogozinski | SAAB RB-05A | I300 | |
Pete Waddington | Honest John | G35-4W | |
Pete Waddington | Mint Source | J300 | L2 Cert - Woohoo! |
Richard Harwood | Intersat | E15-7W | |
Shaun Longhorn | Wilfred Short | 3xD12-5 | |
Shaun Longhorn | MkV | 4xC6-5 | |
Shaun Longhorn | Mr Jenkins | D12-5,8xA10-0 |