Bdale Garbee [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:16:11 +0000 (16:16 -0700)]
G-Spot at Hudson Ranch on an H180W
Two of the shrouds popped at deployment, causing the chute to twirl itself
up. The rocket therefore came down very quickly, landing closer to the rail
than even my L1 cert! See photos...
Bdale Garbee [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:14:47 +0000 (16:14 -0700)]
Trick-O-Treat at Hudson Ranch on a J595BS
This is the TM v0.1 board hacked to be like v0.2 with an off-board Venus
GPS board. We couldn't get GPS to lock on the rail, but decided to fly it
anyway. Absolutely perfect dual deploy flight.
Bdale Garbee [Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:10:50 +0000 (16:10 -0700)]
Horizon Rebuilt at Hudson Ranch on a J530IM with MAWD as backup
TeleMetrum v0.2 board with off-board amplified patch antenna.
It appeared that the MAWD with 1 second delay actually fired nearly at the
same time as the TM at apogee (only one event seen, but both charges blew).
We hypothesize that this generated enough force for the nose cone shear pins
to snap as the main was out shortly after the apogee charges fired. At the
expected altitudes, we saw both main charges fire and smoke come from the
correct end of the airframe through binoculars. Fortunately, winds were
light.
The GPS fix from TM got us to within 15 feet of the rocket.
Bdale Garbee [Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:32:57 +0000 (17:32 -0700)]
G-Spot at Albuquerque Rocket Society launch site in Rio Rancho, NM
Cesaroni 229H255WT-14A, full delay
Beautiful boost, rocket invisible after apogee, nobody saw it come down. Good
data through flight, final GPS fix in Garmin eTrex Vista HCX led me to within
20 feet of the rocket, nearly 1.3 miles down range! Very, very cool.
Keith Packard [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:18:17 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
Fix up eeprom and telem filenames to match flight numbers
I reviewed all of the telemetry files and compared them with eeprom
files from the same serial number on the same date. I then labeled the
telem files with the correct flight numbers.
I also deleted several telem files which were just logs of ground testing.
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