{"id":2422,"date":"2018-06-04T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T01:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2018-06-04T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T01:18:27","slug":"the-empire-state-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/the-empire-state-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire State Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I began planning my trip to NSL 2018 I watched the New York host town of Geneseo on the weather channel map get so much record snow that I wondered if it would all be melted by Memorial Day weekend. It was. The quaint village looked a lot like Manchester, TN, a comfortable verdant community with a field large enough to have a warbird landing strip.<\/p>\n

It was nice to get a large launch fix particularly since there is none to be had with HARA this summer. It\u2019s also great to go to a launch and not have set up and run the range. The MARS club had done all that and was well organized.<\/p>\n

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I was only there on Saturday but for all of the 10 am -5 pm day and made six flights with four rockets, all on Aerotech E15\u2019s provided by Chris\u2019s Rockets. Chris and I were the only Alabama representatives. In my traveling arrangements I could not accommodate any HPR, but I did take some fun birds. Marvin the Martian<\/em> in the Michael\u2019s birdhouse did not fly so straight this time but had the chute out before the RSO could blow the horn. The Phoenix<\/em> had a bit of tip off for a scale \u2018acquire and seek\u2019 flight profile but flew much truer on the second flight. My Quest Minotaur<\/em> looked impressive on the pad (#5 in the photo) and going up. I flew my Estes\u00a0Silver Comet<\/em> twice with a Jolly Logic chute release and was saved many steps in walking to recover it.<\/p>\n

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The NSL boasted it boosted over a thousand flights that weekend and the deserves credit for the success. I saw several big rockets go up and my favorite was the\u00a0N3300R in the upscale Big Bertha shown in the photo while the owner is interviewed for ‘the rocket show’.<\/p>\n

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There was a situation presented at this launch that merits comment. The NSL did not have quarter inch launch rods; they only offered rails for mid power and above. If you showed up with rockets with a quarter inch lug, you were told to put on rail buttons. The claim is that rails are safer and don\u2019t whip like rods do. Fair enough; they are a preferred practice. But it is not fair to dismiss models built over the last thirty years with lugs as suddenly unsafe and not accommodate them. There\u2019s a lot of Aerotech, LOC and PML kits and rockets built with those parts that need not be retrofitted with rail buttons. I hope that ranges will continue to have a pad that can take a \u00bc\u201d rod because there are still a lot of rockets that will need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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