Launch Report for Sunday, October 1st, 2000

Flight 469, 120th flight this year
Estes Maniac on an Estes C5-3 for its 12th flight

Time at Liftoff:	18:34:32
Flight Duration in Seconds:	26
Distance from Launch Pad in Feet:	189 north



The sky was starting to get darker and so the flames from the motors were appearing brighter which makes for great video and still footage. A perfect flight & recovery although it was a bit of a walk from the pad with a landing at 189 feet north of the pad.

Flight 470, 121st flight this year
Quest Big Rage on an Estes C5-3 for its 5th flight

Time at Liftoff:	18:48:48
Flight Duration in Seconds:	20
Distance from Launch Pad in Feet:	115 north



The batteries in the launch controller had become quite weak by this point and I decided to change the batteries. This flight had a great boost, but the chute failed to open for some reason. Thankfully, there was no damage to the rocket.

Flight 471, 122nd flight this year
Estes Prowler on an Estes C5-3 for its 3rd flight

Time at Liftoff:	18:56:45
Flight Duration in Seconds:	18
Distance from Launch Pad in Feet:	71 west



	This flight had a great boost, but there were recovery problems again and the fin that was cracked from its previous flight now broke on landing. I especially love the footage from this flight since the ignition had an interesting "spray" to it as can be seen in the top right photo.

Flight 472, 123rd flight this year
Scratch built Pyramid on an Estes C5-3 for its 9th flight

Time at Liftoff:	19:03:30
Flight Duration in Seconds:	10
Distance from Launch Pad in Feet:	88 north


	Now it was really starting to get dark and I knew that this would be the best time to get impressive pyramid flight footage since pyramid rockets have an incredible amount of base drag which causes the smoke trail to be very turbulent.

Flight 473, 124th flight this year
Scratch built Osiris on an Estes D11-P for its 3rd flight

Time at Liftoff:	19:11:54
Flight Duration in Seconds:	7
Distance from Launch Pad in Feet:	49 north



Osiris made the final flight of the day on a mission to provide more night time pyramid flight footage... The dent on the nose from its previous flight can be seen in the top left photo. This dent didn't affect stability at all. As with the previous flights, it was rock solid all the way up.