LAUNCH! Schoolyard Soccer Field February 24, 2011

That's Austin, the neighborhood maintenance man.

I asked him to press the launch button so I could take some "two-handed" launch pictures.

Austin did great and seemed to enjoy his momentary second childhood.

The downscale carded PATRIOT flew on a 1/2A3-2t engine. A fin broke off on landing, an easy repair.

Here's the MicroMaxx MISSILE TOE downscale.

It's always reliable with simple nose-blow recovery. There's no room for a streamer.

The UP! CUP is back and flying stable again!
It's tailor made for a small field and flew on an Estes B6-2.

Here's a new one!
The CORKSCREW was designed by Bruce Levison. It won him the first place in the Fliskits DOM contest in October of 2003.

With a 1/2A3-2t, it did corkscrew on the way up from the offset ring fin at the bottom.

A quick build will follow the Semroc Tomahawk on this blog.

Also flown:
A new build of the downscale MMX SKYWRITER. I saved the nose cone from the original, now retired.
The ASP MicroMaxx JAYHAWK had it's second flight. This has got to be the smallest rocket in my fleet. I'm glad the grass was cut low, it'd be easy to lose.