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Before
we joined together into one team, we had two. Here are the first
few flights of each team:
Team Stargate: 7 test
launches with two rockets.Videos page.
SG-1: One TARC rocket, 6 flights.Videos page. |
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| Still
photos of the two
teams launching at the 11/22 COSROCS launch. |
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Still photos of
the team after they joined together into one team at the 12/13
COSROCS launch. |
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14th launch 12/13 COSROCS.
2.1mb |
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15th launch 12/13 COSROCS.
705k |
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More still photos from the 12/13 team launch by the
Manns. |
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16th flight on 1/17 in Pueblo. An
all-new rocket, but it turned out to be too weighty. 1.8mb |
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17th flight on 1/17 in Pueblo. No
altimeter reading. 2mb |
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| 1/17 Photo album. Two
TARC flights, plus we get to fly the Semroc Aero Dart to exactly
750 feet. |
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We did 6 test flights
on 1/31 at Fox Meadow Middle School and perfected our altitude,
ballast, and parachute sizes, but didn't shoot any video of those
flights. Classified. 2/7 album of 3 photos from Pueblo test flights. |
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Flight 24, delay on an optional
motor choice is too short. 2/7/09 1.3mb |
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Flight 25, just to confirm short delay.
2/7/09 1.3mb |
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Flight 26. 2/21/09
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Flight 27. 2/21/09
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Flight 28. 2/21/09 2.1mb |
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Flight 29. Aliens
come down and take our rocket. Honest. 2/21/09 2.1mb |
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2/21 Still photoss. It's cold, but we
get 4 flights off. |
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3/21 We do our first
official qualification attempt on a perfect day. Still photo album. |
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| Flght 30 in Pueblo on 3/21. 2.1mb |
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Flght 31 in Pueblo
on 3/21. 1.7mb |
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Flght 32 in Pueblo on 3/21.
1.9mb |
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Flght 33 in Pueblo
on 3/21. Our first oficial qualification attempt. A huge improvement
over last year's first attempt. 1.8mb |
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Flght 34 at Fox
on 3/24. 1.1mb |
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Flght 35 at Fox
on 3/24. 1.1mb |
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Flght 36 at Fox
on 3/24. 1.1mb |
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Flight 37 at Fox on 3/28.
Flight 38 at Fox on 3/28.
Flight 39 at Fox on 3/28. Flight 40 at Fox on 3/28. |
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Flight 41, our
second qualification attempt is a thing of beauty. Fox Meadow Middle
School on 3/28/09. 2.3mb
Our score is 12.2, which propels us directly
into finals.
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At this point,
we have to build two new rockets to fly at Finals, because we
fly at 6300 feet and finals is at 300 feet.
Post-qualify test
flights:
42 (4/26) at Fox Meadow
43,44,45 no video
46 at Fox
Meadow (5/3)
47 at Fox Meadow (5/13)
48 at Fox Meadow (5/13)
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<— Day
before finals, May 15, we do test flights at near sea
level to dial in our altitude:
flight 49, flight
50, flight 51, flight
52, flight 53 and
flight 54 were flown
with near zero wind. Our most precise altitude was 744 feet (750
was the goal). That flight was 2 seconds too long, which would have
given us a score of 10 if we had been able to replicate it the next
day, easily getting us into the second round. However, our last flight
of the day forced us to rethink our ballast: flight
55. After hitting an altitude that was significantly lower, listening
to the clearly windier conditions in the audio, and seeing fight
55 veer sharply into the wind, we made the fateful decision
to create a chart adjusting our ballast for a range of expected wind
conditions the following day. If we had ignored the wind and flown
with no compensation, we would have done a lot better. |
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Here is our final flight
of the season. We removed a 12 grams of ballast to compensate for
wind. Unfortunately, our rocket did not nose into the wind, scrubbing
off altitude as it did the previous day. It flew straight up, past
our hoped-for mark of 750 and all the way to 791, placing us midpack
at 51st place. Not embarassing, but not good enough for any of our
teammates. |
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5/15 Photo album of
our sea-level day of testing before finals. |
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