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<\/a><\/p>\nHi everyone!\u00a0 I have been in rocketry since May of \u201908.\u00a0 A good friend in the hobby, Dan Carlson, lent me a rocket and I, my wife Christine, and our son Jacob (also very much into the hobby) went to the “Spring Thunder”\u00a0launch in Brothers.\u00a0 I saw my first HPR flight and launched Dan\u2019s Binder Design\u00a0“Spike” on a G64.\u00a0 Man was I ever hooked!\u00a0 I already had a busy summer planned and did not make it to another launch until September.\u00a0 That weekend,\u00a0 with my wife and son at my side,\u00a0I launched my first mid-powered rocket, a Binder Designs\u00a0“Aspire”. It’s\u00a0second flight being my\u00a0NAR Level 1 certification flight . \u00a0I guess you could say I am a Born Again Rocketeer (BAR) since my brothers and I launched model rockets as boys.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am currently working on a GLR “Talon 3” for my level 2 certification flight next May.\u00a0 I took a slight \u201cdetour\u201d from that project to attend Balls 18, and to design and build a rocket built almost exclusively from water bottles, aptly dubbed “The Bottle Rocket”.\u00a0 I love the challenge of doing things differently and I can\u2019t stand to be told \u201cyou can\u2019t do that\u201d.\u00a0 At the \u201909 Rocketober launch, heady from a successful Bottle Rocket launch on an I-285 I decided to give my level 2 certification flight a try on a J-350.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I discovered a design flaw when my baby folded in half shortly after motor burnout.\u00a0 But hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained. \u00a0I was disappointed but not surprised.\u00a0 The bottle rocket will be back<\/strong>, and better than ever.\u00a0 Though, I think my next certification attempt will be on rocket built with tried-and-true materials and methods.<\/p>\n I have a wide variety of hobbies and interests:\u00a0 I love the outdoors and spending time with my family and always have an eye for adventure.\u00a0 I enjoy camping, hiking, hunting, sailing, geocaching, astronomy, woodworking, music,\u00a0reading, etymology, and Scouting (I am a leader in my sons Boy Scout Troop and an Eagle Scout myself).\u00a0 To pay for all this fun stuff I work (as little as possible) as a mechanical designer for the engineering firm CH2M Hill – primarily on water and wastewater treatment facilities.<\/p>\n Submitted: 11\/1\/2009 Article: 0726 By Robert Braibish, November 2009 Braibish, Robert NAR\u00a0#88868 L1, OROC \u00a0 Hi everyone!\u00a0 I have been in rocketry since May of \u201908.\u00a0 A good friend in the hobby, Dan Carlson, lent me a rocket and I, my wife Christine, and our son Jacob (also very much into the hobby) went to the “Spring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":715,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726"}],"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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions\/1310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestrocketry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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