10 February 2001

I'll get the details on these later... it's later than I thought and I'm tired. I actually took pretty good notes and will hopefully match the details to the right rockets.

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Despite the poor weather along the coast, Orangeburg was great. A light wind subsided by the end of the day.
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Check with Shann Ladiser to pick up a license plate, key chain, or T-Shirt.
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Tim McAbee's Patriot on a G-64.
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Setting up on the low power pads.
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Reggie Rice's Ender on a G-80T.
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Bill Olsen's Night Crawler on a H-228-10.
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Terry Mull and his Pink Thing found the irrigation system after riding a G-75J.
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Mike Scicchitamo's PML Ariel on an H-180-med.
 
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Paul Hickmon's BSD Diablo on an H-128-med.
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Will Randolph's Lil' Nuke on an Aerotech F-23-4.
 
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Rocket recovery is a good time for bonding.
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Reggie Rice's Ender again, on a G-80T.

 

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Hunter Eisele's Blue Thunder flies again, on a G-52WL.
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Tom Henderson's HV Arcas on a G-64-7. A bad ignitor (we think) resulted in many attempts to get this launch.
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Sandy Dempsey's Aero Possum arced over and was headed for a crash when the chute opened at 100'. F-40-10 motor.
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Another Diablo, this time it's Bill Olsen's on a G-40-7WL.
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Paul Hickman had an interesting design for his Level 2 cert. The Drewminator 1 had an Aerotech J-750. The middle shot had us all confused... the rocket to Drewminator's right was launched by accident.
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Terry Mull's Arcas on a Hypertech hybrid.
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Kurt Kesler's Level 3 cert with The Big Easy on an Aerotech M-1419. The altimeter recorded an altitude of 7790'.
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Tom Binford flew an N-2000, the largest commercially available motor. An error resulted in ejection at apogee, but fortunately only one of two chutes deployed, saving him a drive to Myrtle Beach to recover it.
 

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Last updated 11 June 2000