birch plywood. The fin forward and leading edge rings are made from 3/4 inch
thick birch plywood, mostly to provide sufficient depth for milled fin slots.
-Will add a pointer to build photos here once they are available.
+## Photos
-## Publicity
+I've put all the [build photos](http://gallery.gag.com/rockets/YikStik3/Build/)
+I took together in one place.
+
+Friends who were present for YikStik3's first flight during the
+[Kloudbusters](http://www.kloudbusters.org/) Airfest 18 launch over Labor Day
+weekend 2012 took these photos and videos:
+
+* [Terry Lee](http://gallery.gag.com/rockets/YikStik3/Airfest18-Terry.Lee/)
+* [Tom Marble](http://media.info9.net/tag/yikstik3/)
## Flights
The intended first flight of YikStik3 was to be at NCR's Mile High Mayhem 2012
-on an unreleased [Cesaroni](http://pro38.com) Pro75 6xl Imax reload tentatively
-designated 9874M2245, which is a 92.7% M with approximately 4.4 seconds burn
-time. Unfortunately, the jet stream was parked over the site yielding strong upper
-level winds, such that it would not have been possible to keep the airframe inside
-the waiver cylinder during recovery... so we didn't fly.
+on an unreleased [Cesaroni](http://pro38.com) Pro75 6xl Imax
+reload. Unfortunately, the jet stream was parked over the site yielding
+strong upper level winds, such that it would not have been possible to keep
+the airframe inside the waiver cylinder during recovery... so we didn't fly.
+
+The motor was certified in early August as the Pro75-6GXL 9977-M2245-IM-P.
-I now hope to fly YikStik3 for the first time at the
+I was able to fly YikStik3 for the first time at the
[Kloudbusters](http://www.kloudbusters.org/)
-[Airfest 18](http://www.kloudbusters.org/airfest/Default.aspx). They've got a huge
-waiver cylinder and an awe-inspiring recovery area .. here's hoping the weather
-cooperates! It should be one heck of a flight!
+[Airfest 18](http://www.kloudbusters.org/airfest/Default.aspx). They've got
+a huge waiver cylinder and an awe-inspiring recovery area .. which it turns
+out we didn't need much of! The airframe achieved approximately Mach 2.2 and
+21,660 feet above ground. More details will be posted once we have time to
+analyze the data we collected.
+
+This airframe, along with many other things, was lost in the
+[Black Forest Fire](http://gag.com/blackforestfire.html).