Thank you Paul Harvey, I was struggling with how to title this.
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| Altimeter ready to be installed |
Where we last left our hero and heroin, they had been tasked with two back to back flights, same day with an hour turn around time. After a scrub in February due to a storm, followed by resuming my driving contract, we made the flights in July 2016 (yes, correct year). The month of driving (previous post) suffice to say was dismal. I'm not going to try and catch everything up but I have to ... finish the story with our black and bright pink rocket named Black Beauty.
The photo album tells the story pretty well,
click here or follow along below for more written details.
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| We always have an astronaut, Leia flies. |
Davie and I went out to FAR arriving early and launching the first flight in the first hour.
Click here for the video. Our brave naut, Princess Leia, flew successfully. The rocket landed within sight on the next property. We hike out to recover it for the next flight. I pulled the data from the altimeter, cleared it and prepared it for the next launch. We had to make new ejection charges for the chutes, repack them and get the rocket on the rail for a second go.
Click here for second flight. The video isn't as good at the first, jump ahead a minute in and you can hear us talking about it, the chute is jumping in an out of the frame on the lower right hand corner. Two graceful landings.
The whole thing went so smoothly that it was anticlimactic. Sort of like this post almost 2 years later. In fact in the last month we repeated this twice with another Sonic 3100 with an extended nose for guest altimeter.
