LDRS XVII Photos Aug 1998

These photos were taken by myself.

Kurt Gugisberg's Loc V2. It's flying on a K550. A vetran of ten or twelve previous flights over the years. 199808-LDRS-XVII-A-01	199808-LDRS-XVII-A-04	199808-LDRS-XVII-B-01
Lori Dombrowski's PML Aurora that she level 2 certified with around April. At LDRS she launched it on a K550. She didn't have an altimeter on board, but compared with a friend's flight the next day they estimated it got up about 8000 ft. Not bad for it's second flight and her first K. Ken Biba's Passionate J and flew that day on a Kosdon M1130, weighed about 40# on the pad. Flew to 8800' AGL, just sub-Mach. 7.7" diameter scratch built. 199808-LDRS-XVII-B-02A	Saturn V before launch. 199808-LDRS-XVII-B-17A	Saturn V liftoff. 199808-LDRS-XVII-B-23A
Saturn V away. 199808-LDRS-XVII-B-24	Saturn V breakup 199808-LDRS-XVII-B-25	199808-LDRS-XVII-C-03
199808-LDRS-XVII-C-10	Christina Gumienny's rocket is alpha beta, a 400% upscale. The picture of the rocket painted on it is my husband's alpha which is a 800% upscale he certified level 2 on. Also painted on it is a collection of rockets from our club. If you want to see these they can be found under Roc-stock 7 photos. I painted the rocket three weeks before the launch and it flew great on a H-123. 199808-LDRS-XVII-C-12	199808-LDRS-XVII-C-14
199808-LDRS-XVII-C-15	199808-LDRS-XVII-C-16	199808-LDRS-XVII-C-17 Scot Milano TRA #4616 3x upscale of the estes Silver Comet, flying on a J460.
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Mike Hennessee's scratch-built,'Astro Pop' from Tripoli Atlanta Rocketry Assoc. It is 14.5' tall, 7.5"dia., 65lbs liftoff weight, and powered by an M1939. Alt. 9790', 571mph, 6.4g. This was Mike's level 3 cert. flt. Kudos to Mike on his level 3! 199808-LDRS-XVII-C-35	199808-LDRS-XVII-C-36	199808-LDRS-XVII-C-37
199808-LDRS-XVII-D-15	David Thedens' Solar Warrior on a J180. 199808-LDRS-XVII-D-16	199808-LDRS-XVII-D-18
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199808-LDRS-XVII-E-04A	199808-LDRS-XVII-E-05A	Mark L. Ketchum's Super Trident is 11' 7" tall and weighed 34# at liftoff. It flew on a new Aerotech 75mm L850 (Demo Motor) and reached 4747'. 199808-LDRS-XVII-E-06
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Red Headed Screaming Banana by Jim Rosson. It weighed 48lbs at lift off, and is made from 7.3" diameter 0.165" wall custom G12 tubing. It flew on a Kosdon M2230 with full diameter delay (hence the non-traditional smoke from a fast burn Kosdon). The Alts-02 (50K) on board reported an altitdue of 6482 feet. It was successfully recovered, with no damage. The rocket has flown 6 previous times on M class motors and M class clusters (it has 2-38mm outboard motors, not used for the LDRS XVII flight). 199808-LDRS-XVII-E-12A	199808-LDRS-XVII-E-14A	Ken Biba's Passionate J and flew that day on a Kosdon M1130, weighed about 40# on the pad. Flew to 8800' AGL, just sub-Mach. 7.7" diameter scratch built. 199808-LDRS-XVII-E-15A
199808-LDRS-XVII-E-18A	199808-LDRS-XVII-E-19A	Scott Ghiz's modified THOY Falcon on a J415. The Falcon had five perfect flights during LDRS: J275 - 3475', J460 - 3711', J415 - 5532', J415 - 5603', K550 - 7478'. 199808-LDRS-XVII-E-22
199808-LDRS-XVII-E-23	199808-LDRS-XVII-E-24A	Mike Keller's 4 to 1 upscale of the Quest Aurora was powered by an I161. This was roughly the 20th flight of this rocket. Excellent glide on the glider. I hope he got it back. 199808-LDRS-XVII-F-04A
199808-LDRS-XVII-F-09A	Kurt Gugisberg's modified I-Roc that he calls the Roc Monster. It's flying on a central J570 with a cluster of four 29mm. Unfortunately they didn't light due to an electronics failure which also was the reason for the shoval recovery. 199808-LDRS-XVII-F-11	Another of David Thedens' rockets, this is a scratch built 5.5" diam scale model of an AGM-78 Standard ARM. It launched on a K550 and air started 2 H180's. 199808-LDRS-XVII-F-14A
Angel A Martinez's (President of Sparrow Tech Rocketry Inc.) rocket is a PML 1/4 scale Patriot missile, it flew on a Kosdon I225-10J for a level 1 Certification the rocket flew to an altitude of 3500 feet unfortunately the black powder charge did not deploy the parachute and the rocket crashed in the salt flats. But it was a nice launch. 199808-LDRS-XVII-F-15A	199808-LDRS-XVII-F-16A	199808-LDRS-XVII-F-18A
This is Alan Atkinson and Mike Hennessee (the owner and builder) making the long walk to the pad with Astro Pop (which is featured above in picture 199808-LDRS-XVII-C-35). 199808-LDRS-XVII-F-19A	Mike Hennessee (the owner and builder) completing his pre-flight checks just before Astro Pop (which is featured above in picture 199808-LDRS-XVII-C-35) takes to the skys.199808-LDRS-XVII-F-21	David Reese's LOC Bruiser launching on a J275. Altimeter on board measured altitude of 1728 feet. This was a level 2 certification attempt, and was a perfect flight in every way, except a fin popped off when the rocket touched down.199808-LDRS-XVII-F-22A
199808-LDRS-XVII-F-23A	199808-LDRS-XVII-H-01A	A scratch built paper/carbon fiber/fiberglass rocket, called "Red Heads do it Better" owned by Jim Rosson. It is 5.5" Diameter and 115" long, weighing 25lbs empty. The rocket was flown as a motor demonstration on a soon to be available Kosdon East "Red Rhino" (red flame) M1700 motor with a total of 7800NS. The on board Alts-02 (50K) reported 14,272 feet. The rocket has over 20 successful flights on it, including my successful Level 3 flight at LDRS XVI last year. 199808-LDRS-XVII-H-02A
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199808-LDRS-XVII-H-07A	199808-LDRS-XVII-H-08A	Peter B. Nagel's PML 4" AMRAAM. This was his level 2 certification flight on a J180. The light was perfect, and he recovered the rocket without a scratch. 199808-LDRS-XVII-H-14A
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This AVI demonstrates why we wait when ignitors don't work. It is worth the 500KB download for the sound alone. 24Sec, 15fps at 160x120dpi.

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