{"id":1597,"date":"2009-11-14T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocketsnw.com\/?page_id=1597"},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T03:27:11","slug":"wilsonville-or-november-2009-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/?page_id=1597","title":{"rendered":"Wilsonville OR November 2009 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article: 1597<br \/>\nBy Keith Packard, November 2009<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first anniversary of the Wilsonville model launches! We&#8217;ve been flying for a whole year now, and I want to thank OROC, and especially Robert Krausert and Tim Ryerse for their help in organizing and running these events.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was unexpectedly nice; a high cloud layer, well above our launch ceiling, no wind and no rain made for a day with no lost rockets. There must be something about November and rocketry though &#8212; we had a good sized crowd at the park last weekend, and they flew a *lot* of rockets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launches: 71<\/li>\n<li>Successful flights: 54<\/li>\n<li>Flyers: 18<\/li>\n<li>Rockets: 39<\/li>\n<li>Most Flights: 11 Gene G and 10 Sutton W<\/li>\n<li>Biggest Motor: E28-4 Keith P<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gene and Sutton just kept bringing rockets up to the LCO table and putting them up in the air. We had a rash of recovery failures this month, most of those were chutes that failed to unwad themselves after ejection. Looks like we could use a bit of education on the application of talc and some parachute folding tips.<\/p>\n<p>We held a contest for the closest landing to the pitcher&#8217;s mound. I&#8217;m afraid I neglected to write down the name of the winner though; perhaps someone else remembers? In any case, the winning rocket landed *on* the mound, while several managed to land within a few paces. Low winds certainly make for short walks. Of course, Tim&#8217;s R2D2 got the &#8216;closest to the pad&#8217; award when it failed to even get off the rod&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks much to Tim Ryerse for coming out early to help set up, we&#8217;ll see you all next year in Wilsonville!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article: 1597 By Keith Packard, November 2009 It&#8217;s the first anniversary of the Wilsonville model launches! We&#8217;ve been flying for a whole year now, and I want to thank OROC, and especially Robert Krausert and Tim Ryerse for their help in organizing and running these events. The weather was unexpectedly nice; a high cloud layer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":448,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597\/revisions\/1669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}