[LUNAR Announce:] [LUNAR general:] Great Launch today!

[Jack Hagerty]

I'll second that, Dave!

 

Here are the stats. I didn't get the sign-in sheets, so the "Total Fliers"
box is empty. Also, none of the safety boxes on the flight cards were
checked. I know that Kevin M.'s EC Thunder took a nosedive into the tarmac,
and I saw at least on egg lofter come down the way it's not supposed to, so
I've added those to Safety Stats. Please let me know of any other's you may
be aware of and I'll update the table.

 


July  2010 - NASA Ames

Flag:

1

	


Total Flights:

202

	


Motors consumed, Known:

203

Unknown:

6

Total:

209

								

Total Impulse expended:

3,042

A low range "L"

			New Fliers:

2

Contest Flights:

0

	

Average Impulse Per motor:

15.0

A mid range "D"

	


Per flight:

15.5

A mid range "D"

			Total Fliers:

0

TARC Flights:

0

	
	

	


Motors and Flight Class

1/8A

1/4A

1/2A

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

Unkn

		

Total Motors:

1

0

11

21

56

59

22

15

10

8

6

		

Contest Flights

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

		

TARC Flights

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

		

First Time Fliers:

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

		

Safety Stats

	
Category Total

% of Total


Total Flights:

1

0

11

18

54

59

20

15

10

8

6

202

100.0


Successful:

1

0

11

18

54

59

19

14

10

8

6

200

99.0


Motor Failure:

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.0


Unstable:

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.0


Recovery Failure:

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

2

1.0

 

 

Lots of peripheral activity. There was a Boy Scout troop, some folks from
"Wired" magazine and a reporter from the SF Chronicle interviewing people.
Lots of returns from the Maker Faire crowds, and we discovered that those
saucers don't fly quite as well after sitting in someone's closet for a
month. I suspect we had lots of first timers, but they didn't use the "1st
Time" flight cards, although a higher-than-usual number of people forgot to
list the motor on the flight cards. I further suspect that the two "1st
Time" cards I did find in the stack were really not first timers since they
were more advanced models on "C" and "D" motors. Still, that's what the data
are, so that's what I listed.

 

- Jack

 

Jack Hagerty, ARA Press 

http://www.arapress.com

 

"Our main goal for a long time [developing the V2] was to make it more
dangerous 

to be in the target area than to be part of the test crew." -- Wernher von
Braun

 

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Subject: [LUNAR general:] Great Launch today!

 

LUNAR!

 

We had a great launch today. We had over 300 people in attendance which

included several groups from the Boy Scouts, YMCA Adventure Guides, A

Birthday party, STEP (NASA sponsored Program) for students, and a Rocketry

workshop for teachers which was another NASA sponsored program.

 

I would like to thank all of the volunteers who helped out from NASA Ames!

The volunteers did an excellent job helping with crowd control, and pad

helpers. The people helping with the pads cleaned up the igniters and motor

plugs after each launch which made the final FOD walk very easy. We only had

a handful of stuff we found after the launch.

 

A BIG THANK YOU to the LUNAR Officers and club members who are always

willing to help out at every launch.

 

We also had media coverage from the SF Chronicle and Wired.com. The folks

from the Chronicle were doing an article about the club. The Wired Magazine

group was trying to relate the amount of calories in Wendy's Double Bacon

Cheese Burger to how high or how many times you can fly a rocket to 600

feet. The Burger has 1030 (food) Calories or 1030 kilocalories.  I will send

everyone a link to the article when it comes out in the next couple of

weeks.

 

I hope everyone enjoyed the launch, I sure did. Thank you again to everyone

who volunteered!

 

Dave

LUNAR President

 

 

 

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