Launch! Schoolyard, July 12, 2014

I arrived at the schoolyard field about 8:00 a.m. Clear, calm and hot.

The old standby and good "first-up" model is the Hot Rod Rockets BELL BOTTOM.
A textbook flight with an A10-3t engine to about 300'. Streamer recovery with no damage.

Here's a new carded scale model. Built with information from the Peter Alway book "Scalebash" is the BLACK BRANT VB.
It's first flight was arrow straight with an Estes 1/2A3-4t engine to an estimated 300'.

The streamer blew out and the model bounced on the basketball courts.
One fin tip was crimped up. Some steam and white glue might flatten it out.

Still testing the Odd'l Rockets LITTLE GREEN MAN prototype, this sixth flight with an Estes B6-4.
Estimated altitude was 300'.

Perfect boost, a spill hole in the parachute brought it back close. Caught before it hit the ground. No damage.

Here's a strange one, not a vertical boost - 
My old MPC/Quest NIKE SMOKE was boosted with a loud Quest B6-4.
It turn slightly to the South and ejected the garbage bag parachute over the road and closer to the townhouses where I live. Altitude? Maybe 325'.
I ran to the gate, crossed the road and lost sight of it. After walking the landing area for a minute I looked up and found it hanging low in a tree.

I left it there and got it down a half hour later with a tree pruner pole.
No real damage, I'll replace the black garbage bag parachute.
This is one of those indestructible rockets.

My best flight of the day was the Quest X-15 with an Estes B6-4.
Perfect boost with no rotation. Altitude was around 300'.
Another catch before it could hit the grass.
Sorry, no launch pic of this one, the camera stalled.

Squeezing in one last launch with the FlisKits M.A.C.M.E. with a MicroMaxx engine. Surprising height for it's girth, it maxed out at about 45 feet.