I was able to attend LDRS 29 at Lucerne Dry Lake, CA from Friday@11AM through Sunday@3PM. With rare exception it was windy/gusty the entire time and the only relief came between pronounced wind ... [Read More]
I haven't felt much like blogging in recent months. Could you tell? Well I'm attempting to catch up now so I suppose that's something... onward and upward. LDRS was conveniently hosted by ... [Read More]
After finishing my taxes today I decided to repair several ailing rockets despite needing to build/finish several others. First off I fixed the 4" bullet after an early I366 Redline flight with yet ... [Read More]
I continue to make progress on Der Red Mix's electronics bay and motor tubes. Right now I only have e-bay pix, however, so here they are: The Flip MinoHD camera fits nicely through the side and I ... [Read More]
All of a sudden this thing's really coming together. I cut all the airframe holes tonight and everything's piecing together peachily:
Despite all my Illustrator pre-work and all the iteration ... [Read More]
Yesterday was the last Plaster City launch before the summer heat break. However heat arrived early as it was 80?F at 8AM and 108?F when I left at about 3:30PM!!
My first flight of the day was ... [Read More]
Yesterday started cloudy but windless on the lakebed. I quickly prepped my newly-stable Squat rocket for the drag race my friend KO and I had planned. She was stuck in traffic so I then prepped and ... [Read More]
After losing my stalwart DarkStar I decided that I would not rebuild it. Instead I purchased a 4" Punisher w/75mm mount at LDRS and the booster is already built: I really dig this volumetrically ... [Read More]
Oh hi there. I'm known to blog... occasionally. I attended the most recent launch at Holtville, CA and a fine day it was. I flew only a CTI 168H410 Vmax reload in my DarkStar ... [Read More]
I was able to attend LDRS 29 at Lucerne Dry Lake, CA from Friday@11AM through Sunday@3PM. With rare exception it was windy/gusty the entire time and the only relief came between pronounced wind ... [Read More]
