Launch Report for Friday, November 19th, 1999

I was alone for this early evening launch and the winds were just tolerable for flying rockets and coming in out of the south... exactly perpendicular to the length of my favorite launch field... the schoolyard of Howard S. Billings, the high school I went to in the early eighties.  Unfortunately, this meant that I had to keep my altitudes fairly low.

I brought my NCR Command Control launch controller with its single 7.2 volt remote control car battery along with my Porta Pad 01 (the first of six Porta Pads) with its fire blasted and badly warped deflector plate, as well as my camcorder so that I record every flight and post pics on this page.  All the motors that I used today were made by Estes.

Flight 340, 215th flight this year
Estes Kadet on an Estes A8-3 for its 1st flight

I always wanted one of these Estes Kadet's as a kid and so I got one off of Ebay and it just arrived this morning!  It took off on an A8-3 for it's first flight.

Flight 341, 216th flight this year
Estes Astro Bee on an Estes A8-3 for its 1st flight

Flight 342, 217th flight this year
Estes Rattler-7 on an Estes A8-3 for its 2nd flight

Flight 343, 218th flight this year
Estes Fireflash on an Estes B6-4 for its 2nd flight

Flight 344, 219th flight this year
Estes Satellite Interceptor on an Estes B6-4 for its 7th flight

Satellite Interceptor flew for its seventh time today and its first time since 1986.  Up it went on a B6-4 and it landed quite far from the pad.

Flight 345, 220th flight this year
Scratch built Pyramid on an Estes C5-3 for its 7th flight

Pyramid went up on a C5-3 for its seventh flight and the smoke plume was amazing as usual, but the fact that it was an evening launch made the flame show up that much more as can be seen in the above photos.

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