Launch Report, Sept 22-23, 2012

Posted on September 27, 2012 by admin

[Editor’s note: if anyone has any pictures of this launch that they would be willing to have posted here, please email the editor at clubjuggler at gmail dot com. Thanks much.]

We kicked off the 2012-2013 rocket season at Bayboro on the weekend of September 22-23 with great weather and favorable winds, at least on Saturday.? The corn had been harvested from almost all of the fields east of New Ditch Road, but not yet mowed, chopped, and plowed under, so walking was very tiring.? The soybeans to the west of the road have not even begun to turn yellow, so they will be there when we come back for the weekend of October 13-14.? I?ll have more to say about the soybeans when I get to the discussion of Sunday.? On Saturday, the wind was out of the west and southwest, so the rockets were drifting out over open land. Continue reading →

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Launch Report, April 28-29, 2012

Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin

This weekend marked the last launch at Bayboro until the crops have been harvested in September.? A lot of flyers from Virginia and North and South Carolina decided to take advantage of the opportunity to get in some rocket flying before the summer.? The weather was not ideal:? On Saturday the wind was brisk and blowing in exactly the wrong direction ? towards the huge field of winter wheat planted to the west of our customary launch site.? We moved the pads a few hundred feet farther away from the wheat, but a few people had long walks in the green stuff.? On Sunday, the wind was a lot calmer and shifted over to out of the Northeast, but the field was in light fog all morning and it was not until the early afternoon that the fog and cloud ceiling began to lift a little.

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Launch Reports, March 24-25 and April 14-15, 2012

Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin

For the past few months I have been more lax than usual about writing the monthly launch reports.? Things have been so busy at work and at home that I often forget that I have been to a launch the moment I walk back in the door.? But I still have the flight cards and a few pencil notes I made on Sunday night, so let me try to reconstruct the last two launches at Bayboro.

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