{"id":1047,"date":"2009-11-04T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketsnw.com\/?page_id=1047"},"modified":"2010-10-01T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:22:48","slug":"david-randall-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/?page_id=1047","title":{"rendered":"Biography: Randall, David"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article: 1047
\nBy David Randall, NAR 84939 L3, November 2009<\/p>\n

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I’m Dave Randall, and have joined the ranks of many born again rocketeers. Rocketry started for me in the mid-70’s flying at Vet’s Park in Bay City MI with my grandfather. My favorite rocket was the Estes X-15 and his favorite rocket was der Red Max. I think it had to do with his German heritage! Fast forward through the girlfriends, high school, college and on to married life. My wife and I spent a few years BC (before children) making models and flying rockets at 60 Acres. I loved my Estes Saturn V, especially underpowered slow liftoffs on a D12-5. We flew tons of models, and knew nothing of mid\/high power rocketry until stumbling upon a lost rocket that was 7′ tall and used a 29mm motor. I was hooked!<\/p>\n

My foray into high power rocketry was jump started with a few trips to Monroe and Aerotech 29\/40-120 motor building mentorship from Michael Dennis. I purchased a BSD Sprint from Kris Hull, and flew that on an H123 for my Level 1 certification in 2005. I built an Excel Plus for my Level 2 certification, and completed my test and certification flight at XPRS in 2005. Venturing on through a variety of 29, 38, and 54mm motor based rockets, I continued to build skills in flying with electronics and use dual deployment whenever possible. I completed my Level 3 certification at Fire in the Sky 2008 with a Polecat Aerospace 10″ Thumper. (Update: Thumper deployed the apogee chute 1\/2 back down at speed. \u00a0Quite a bit of damage. \u00a0Sigh) \u00a0Photos of each of my certification rockets are below.<\/p>\n

I was \u00a0co-launch director for Fire in the Sky 2010 and attend most of the WAC meetings and several WAC launches throughout the year. \u00a0I do an annual trip to Black Rock, NV to fly high there.<\/p>\n

And in closing, a few ‘stats’ about some of my rockets.<\/p>\n