{"id":2132,"date":"2010-04-18T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocketsnw.com\/?page_id=2132"},"modified":"2010-04-18T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T19:06:34","slug":"wilsonville-or-april-2010-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/?page_id=2132","title":{"rendered":"Wilsonville OR April 2010 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article: 2132<br \/>\nBy Keith Packard April 2010<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Wilsonville Memorial Park Launch Event April 11th, 2010<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Wow. That&#8217;s about all I can say after spending an hour entering flight data this evening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launches: 114<\/li>\n<li>Successful flights: 98<\/li>\n<li>Flyers: 54<\/li>\n<li>Rockets: 71<\/li>\n<li>Most Flights: 9 Ed McBride<\/li>\n<li>Biggest Motor: F40 Ian Welsh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We counted 79 people at the launch, and at one point we were stacked up three racks deep. If this size crowd shows up again, we&#8217;re gonna need more rods.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was favorable with light winds and a cloud deck plenty high for this field. The wind was from the north, which isn&#8217;t ideal as we use the southern ball fields. Tilting the rods towards the north helped keep more rockets out of the trees, but we lost a few even still. Lower flights and smaller chutes (or streamers) were the rule of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Chris G brought his church youth group to fly several models. And then, about an hour after we opened up, a cub scout troop showed up with more Alpha&#8217;s than I&#8217;ve ever seen in one place. They brought a pack of Quest A6-4 motors and I have to say that these were a lot of fun &#8212; slowly coming up to pressure, they sounded like a much bigger motor. And, none of the A6-4 flights ended up in the trees.<\/p>\n<p>Austin T flew a fabulous spider-shaped saucer and the USS Enterprise. Steve Tarr helped aerate the lawn with his Acme Spitfire. Emily K came out with a hot-pink rocket she called &#8216;Pink Panther&#8217;. Ed McBride and Steve Tarr both flew gliders, and neither of them got stuck in the trees. Finally, Tim Ryerse closed out the show with the first flight of his Frick-n-Frack I didn&#8217;t get the cub scout troop number written down, but congrats to them for many successful flights, and I hope they&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ed McBride for helping get things set up, and of course to everyone who stayed afterwards to help carry stuff back to the cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nkeith.packard@intel.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article: 2132 By Keith Packard April 2010 Wilsonville Memorial Park Launch Event April 11th, 2010 Wow. That&#8217;s about all I can say after spending an hour entering flight data this evening: Launches: 114 Successful flights: 98 Flyers: 54 Rockets: 71 Most Flights: 9 Ed McBride Biggest Motor: F40 Ian Welsh We counted 79 people at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"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\/2132"}],"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=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}