Red Glare 11 Rocket Launch

From the biennial 3-day rocket launch hosted by MDRA, the weather was pretty good by Eastern Shore standards. Some cool flights and a great time as always. The Road Kill Cafe chicken cannot be beat!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• rocket
• rocketry
• hpr
• high power rocketry
• vahpr
• Iris
• mdra

[TIRrocketry]

Jerry, is that a 4.5 inch case you loaded into your Iris? Really nice flight. Did you use the radio based ejection system again?

[vahpr]

@TIRrocketry Yea, that's the 115mm 15kns motor. I didn't use the RC stuff that time, it was an RDAS and a old but reliable Flight Control Systems (I date myself) baro unit. Next time I'll square away that apogee drogue tangle:)

[TIRrocketry]

@vahpr Hey, if it works, put it to use! What did that T-smoke fly on? Judging by how much motor was hanging out the back, I'd say just about the right amount of motor was used ;) It almost looks like a hybrid when it takes off.

[vahpr]

@TIRrocketry It was a Contrail M something or other but clearly that's a case of wishful thinking as the altitude equated to about 2100ns. Amazing they call it an M....That was my first and last hybrid:)

[TIRrocketry]

@vahpr ah, I gotcha. Hybrids are way too complicated for my liking. It's all about the AP ;)