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Launch Report for Saturday, September 29th, 2001
(Salvo 7)

Estes Scorpion on an Estes B6-4

I almost missed getting this flight on camera since I didn't have my camera ready.  This Estes Scorpion got some pretty decent altitude on the B6-4 that it flew on and like The rocket just before it, it landed close to that corn field.

Scratch built Skywalker on an Aerotech E30-4T

Next was the scratch built Skywalker that blasted into the air on an E30-4 for a very fast flight and a landing a few hundred feet to the west.

Flight 603, 122nd flight this year
Keith Bedard's Aerotech HV Arcas on an Aerotech F25-4W for its 2nd flight

My own primed but unpainted Aerotech HV Arcas was next on an F25-4.  I had a Canadian Tire personal alarm on board that served as the beeper and it seems that its weight pushed the CG farther forward enough to cause this rocket to weathercock.  Since I put a smaller chute on it, it couldn't clear the forest and it landed in the lower branches of a tree, but it was still just out of reach.  With the help of some of the other rocketeers, they managed to knock it out of the tree for me.  This is the SECOND time this rocket has landed in the "Blair Witch Forest" as I like to call it.  This forest is dark & dense and it would make a perfect location for a Blair Witch style movie.  Ironically, if I had used the stock chute in this rocket, it probably would have easily cleared the forest.

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