Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 7,2011
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Rocket club holds launch day
Nordic
club to
meet
The Arbuckle Nor
dic Club will hold its annual
meeting at the Ewing home
on Sunday, December 11.
There will be a business
meeting at 6:30 p.m. with
pie and ice cream to follow.
The main topic o f discus
sion will be trip planning
for the upcoming ski season
and then sharing o f photos
and stories from last year.
For more informa
tion, contact club Activities
Director Steve Brownfield
at 541-676-9696 or club
Chair Dave Fowler at 541-
676-9109.
The South Morrow
County 4-H Rocket Club
held a launch day Sunday,
December 4 at their Hard
man launch site on Wyland
Grade Road.
Jerry Gentry, Sam
Myers and Treo Ranches
allowed the club to launch
and retrieve rockets on their
properties at the Hardman
launch site. John Breiden-
bach donated rocket motors
for the launch.
After the warmer-
than-forecast day Satur
day, club members were
not ready for the weather
change; it was 30 degrees
Fahrenheit when the first
members got there at 8:30
a.m., and the highest the
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weather station hit all day
was 39 F. With the abso
lutely blue sky, though,
participants had no trouble
seeing anything in the sky
all day.
Jason Palmer and
Pat Struthers mowed out the
range and parking area on
Saturday. On Sunday, they
got the range set up, put the
coffee and cocoa on, and
had everything ready to go
by 9:45 a.m.
Five participants
gathered at the launch site
on Sunday. Palmer and the
club president, daughter
Hannah Palmer, arrived at
10 a.m. to join leader Pat
Struthers, and the three got
busy flying rockets. Darrell
Smith o f Pendleton got to
the field about 11 a.m., and
John Breidenbach arrived
about 1 p.m.
The club had a total
o f 23 flights, including one
A, four Bs, 13 Cs, three Ds,
one F and one H.
The Palmers put
seven rockets in the air,
including the new Der Red
Max. Jason had a modi
fied Alpha on a C6-5 with
canards that did a very
wild loop-under-power but
ended up nose-up.
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Smith tested out his
F Egglofter entry (complete
with egg but without altim
eter) for tower compatibil
ity. After lots o f tweaking
and some graphite on the
rails, it boosted up perfectly
straight and very high on an
F25-9, probably to 2,500-
3.000 feet. It had a perfect
chute but then the wind took
it. Smith looked for an hour
and came back; Struthers
followed his own line on
it and walked directly to it,
3.000 feet south o f the pad,
in the shade against a diver
sion ditch.
Smith later put up
his Diablo on a very snarky
H123W; the chute tangled
but it survived a bounce
landing well.
Briedenbach had
repaired the motor mount
o f his Estes Bullpup since
the October launch, and
flew it perfectly three times
on a B and two Cs. He also
flew three other new rock
ets, and had short hikes for
retrieval.
Struthers flew an
other test o f his 24mm
Super-Roc Duration entry
on a D12-5. Once again, it
looped under power about
200 feet up, continued ver
South Morrow County 4-H Rocket Club president Hannah
Palmer, trying to decide on a rocket to get ready, but mostly
just freezing, during a chilly December 4 launch day. -Photo
by Pat Struthers
zen out by 3 p.m., so the
group packed up, cleaned
up, and was off the range by
4 p.m. Everyone is looking
forward to another success
ful launch day on December
18, but hopefully with less
wind and less cold.
Aside from the up
com ing December date,
other public launches are
scheduled for January 8
and 22. More information
is available by emailing Pat
Struthers at patstr@uci.net
or at www.wyrdchao.net/
VAB/4h/.
tical and popped out the
chute nicely. He also flew
his Estes Snitch saucer for
the 34th time in its career.
Struthers also test
ed out the new tower hard
ware with six flights o f his
Altitude Gamer rocket; he
flew four flights with a C6-
7, and had a lot o f trouble
with it tipping in the wind.
The two D 12-7 fl i ghts were
higher and more consistent,
one reaching 1,832 feet and
290 miles per hour accord
ing to the altimeter.
Everyone was fro
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