Bdale Garbee [Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:48:19 +0000 (22:48 +0900)]
Trick-o-Treat flying at Hudson Ranch on an AMW J370GG. Used a strontium
igniter made up by Jason Chamberlin, and it lit, but chuffed about 4 times
before taking off, so clearly less apogee than could have been expected.
TeleMetrum with a 5010 GPS board and passive patch antenna
sn 10 was Robert's Lil Nuke on a RoadRunner G80-10
sn 11 was Bdale's Hawk Mountain Raptor on a Cesaroni pro29 6-grain H399, using
stock firmware with accelerometer cal point "diddled" to allow basic operation
to work with 100g accelerometer loaded
sn 1 was Bdale's Horizon 4" Rebuild on an Aerotech K805G
sn 2 was Keith's LDDD on a CTI pro38-3 384I205
sn 10 was Robert's Lil Nuke on a CTI pro29-2 84G88SS
Vertical Assault on Cesaroni I540WT at Hudson Ranch.
Near vertical flight, PFND, settled in second small side ravine south of
the flight line. Of interest in the gnumeric plot is the negative baro
spike at apogee indicating that I still didn't have a good seal on the
ebay bulkhead allowing some gas in, and the accel pattern at touch down,
where the rocket layed itself across a tree and the ebay clearly got
banged around before settling down.
Sadly, the .telem file was garbage, apparently a bug in the version of
aoview I was using on the sirf-binary branch, so we only have the
eeprom file for this flight. Telem seemed good during the flight and
the voice synth seemed to be working ok.
Bdale Garbee [Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:55:12 +0000 (18:55 -0600)]
Lil Nuke at Hartsel on a Cesaroni pro29 108G57CL with delay dialed to 9 secs
strong breeze, severe weather-cocking, ejection therefore well after apogee
long walk to retrieve, PFND
Telemetry seemed good until about at ground, when lost behind vehicles on
flight line... was using simple wire whip antenna on top rear of Suburban