LDRS 27!

[Apollo Leader]

http://www.ldrs27.org/

Once again I'm attending the premiere event for high power model rocketry. I'll be heading down to the Argonia, Kansas area on Wednesday and will be there until next Tuesday.

The big thing for me this time is that I will be attempting my Level 3 Certification flight. Over the last two months I've been converting my trusty old Mobile Rocket Gundam into taking a 75mm (3 inch) AeroTech M1297 motor. I originally did the CAD work for all of this 2 years ago and had actually started on building the new motor mount assembly last July, but I got sidelined by a few things and didn't get back to it until this summer. Unlike many people who do their Level 3 flights with a rocket that has never flown before, my Gundam rocket has the distinction of having eight flights over the last five years so I'm very confident that this will be a good flight. It was 10 years ago this past spring that I aced my Level 2 test and successfully did the qualifying flight so it's taken 10 years to get to this next big step.

Gundam's big cluster flight at LDRS 25:

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=...mp;id=582816193

Gundam reborn for M POWER!!!

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=...mp;id=582816193

I will also be brushing the dust off of my Macross Plus rocket and sending it up on a new L motor that Cesaroni recently put out. It's been two years since the last time I flew it. Below is the project page that Shawn setup for me on Macross World many years ago. All the pictures were taken back in 2000 and 2001 and they detail the first three flights done by one of the most successful rockets I ever built. 7 and 8 years ago... time flies!

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/mwat/r...hard_burney.htm

A bunch of guys in my club here in southeast Nebraska have also been busy building a 60% scale model of the Pershing II IRBM. It will stand over 20 feet tall and will be powered by an O10,000. The rocket was completed over this weekend.

http://www.rocketryonline.com/modules.php?...topic&t=217

I will be taking a lot of pictures not only for myself but for one of the rocketry magazines. I will post any pictures and videoes when I can (I'll probably be away from any computers period for about a week).