CMASS - Tewksbury

My ESRA Missile takes off with two Estes C11-3 motors. The May 10th 2008 CMASS launch was held on the Tewksbury, MA field. At times it was very breezy and the wind kept changing its mind which direction to blow. Even though this made recovery difficult, I still managed to launch a total of fourteen rockets, and I did not lose any rockets this time. Doug Gardei's Flights Estes Moondog A10-3T Motor retainer blew off and rocket lawn darted. Estes Jinx A10-3T Perfect boost, parachute tangled with itself. Quest Icarus Quest B6-4 Delay smoke went dark just before ejection. Used a single 18” chute. Did not drift to far. Caught it on recovery. Semroc OSO A8-3 Did not go as high as I expected. Estes Speed Freak B6-4 Booster landed in baseball field on other side of tree line and road. Nose cone read Err. Estes Storm Caster C11-3 Flight. Did not drift to far with 18” Chute. Quest Nike-X B6-4 Good Flight! Estes Der Red Max B6-4 Due to weather cocking, the 4 seconds was to long and got a minor zipper. Nubular Super Tube AT D15-4T Very long delay, did deploy but to late. Have to order some BT-80 tubing if I don’t have some already. Hotel Express AT F20-4W Was more like a F20-2W, but still a great flight. Good thing I reefed its chute. ESRA Missile 2x C11-3 Great flight, but apparently the ejection charge from one of the C11’s caught the upper motor mount on fire. I Will need to replace the mount. Fliskits Flea A8-3 Great boost but streamer ripped off. No damage from landing in the grass. Semroc Lil' Ivan B6-4 Estes B6-4 dated 6-13-75. Purple plug would not fit, had to use wadding ball. Perfect Flight. RTF X-15 B6-4 Estes B6-4 dated 6-13-75. I must be really tempting fate. The LCO called a heads up flight because I was flying an Outlawed rocket, with a motor Older than me, and I was the one flying it. Fate was on my side because it was a perfect flight. Pictures :) Sparks fly when the prototype Rocketflite electric matches fire in Boris's UFO powered by three D11-P's. All three D11-P's are at full thrust. I like how the flame is reflected off the gold body of the UFO. This reminds me of some of the Ufo sighting photographs. An Aerotech F20-4W LMS motor pushes my Hotel Express with a F20-4W motor. Howard sets up his Initiator to fly with a Roadrunner F45 motor. Howards Initiator blasting away from the Earth with a Roadrunner F45R. My DER Red Max ready for takeoff. My DER Red Max takes off with an Estes B6-4. The DER Red Max continues climbing into the sky with an Estes B6-4. An Estes B6-4 lifts my Semroc off the launch pad. The outlawed Estes/Cox X-15 takes off with a Estes B6-4 motor that is older than me! The motor made in 1975 works perfectly as it pushes my Estes X-15 into the sky. Sparks and smoke fly as the copperhead ignites the Blue Thunder propellant in the RMS 24/40 which is loaded in my Nubular Super Tube. The Aerotech D15-4T pushes my Nubular Super Tube into the sky. My Estes Stormcaster takes off with a C11-3. The C11-3 continues to push the Estes StromkCaster skyward. This is a nice Sidewinder missile. I am not sure if this is the MRC version or a clone. My freshly painted Semroc OSO looks o-so nice lifting off with an A8-3. My Fliskits Flea takes off on it first flight with an A8-3. Return To The Top.