[LUNAR Announce:] Ames launch 7/20

[Jack Hagerty]

From: David Raimondi
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:33 PM
To: announce at lunar.org
Subject: [LUNAR Announce:] Ames launch 7/20
LUNAR,
I want  to thank Cliff Sojourner for bring the trailer to the launch.  I
also want to thank everyone who volunteered today and help make this launch
run smoothly.
Jack Hagerty will provide the launch stats later. 
Here you go, Dave!

LUNAR celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing with a great
launch at NASA!  At the end, Cliff and I were doing our usual guessing as to
the number of flights based on how much the bag of flight cards bulged.  We
were both a little high.  He said 320, while I just said "over 300."  The
actual number was 283.  Lots of scouts and other educational groups plus one
birthday party.  

It was an exceptionally high quality launch with only a handful of recovery
failures and one CATO, Ari's rather spectacular E9 that was the second stage
of his RC glider.  If you're going to fail, do it spectacularly (and
expensively)!

Here are the numbers:
July  2013 - NASA Ames

Total Flights:	283

Motors consumed, Known:	277	Unknown:	14	Total:	291
Contest Flights:	0		
Total Impulse expended:	2,452	A high range "K"
New Fliers:	1			1/100 Mile	1/10 Mile	
Average Impulse Per motor:	8.9	A high range "C"
Hotline Calls:	0			Mile High Attempts:	0	0

Per flight:	9.1	A high range "C"
Total Fliers:	0					
	
TARC/SLI Flights:	0		
	

Motors and Flight Class	1/8A	1/4A	1/2A	A	B	C	D
E	F	G	Unknown			
Total Motors:	0	0	15	44	110	73	13	14
3	5	14			
Contest Flights	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0			
TARC/SLI Flights	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0			
First Time Fliers:	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
0	0	0	0			
Safety Stats
Category Total	% of Total	
Total Flights:	0	0	15	39	109	72	12	14
3	5	14	283	100.0	
Successful:	0	0	14	39	108	68	12	14
3	5	14	276	97.5	
Motor Failure:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0.0	
Unstable:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	0	1	0.4	
Recovery Failure:	0	0	1	0	1	4	0
0	0	0	0	6	2.1	
And the box score for the club totals:
Number of Launches	238	
Total Flights	47,323	
Motors consumed	50,728	
Total Impulse	2,169,848	
Average Impulse Per motor	43	
Per flight	46	

- Jack

Jack Hagerty, LUNAR #0002
http://www.lunar.org 

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