congratulatory first flight article

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+[[!tag tags/rockets]]
+[[!tag tags/hamradio]]
+Contratulations to Bob Finch and Nathan Dalrymple for becoming our 
+first customers to fly a rocket using a 
+[TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum) 
+board!  The rocket was Nathan's stretched BSD Horizon flying on a 
+[CTI](http://pro38.com) Pro29 6xl 305-H226-14A Skidmark motor as shown in 
+this [launch photo](http://www.arsabq.org/LaunchReports/May10/DSC_0149a.jpg).
+
+I met both Bob and Nathan at the monthly club launch run by the 
+[Albuquerque Rocket Society](http://www.arsabq.org/) at the same site in 
+Rio Rancho, NM, earlier this year.  That was the day I flew my
+[first test flight](http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/TeleMetrum_v0.2_First_Test_Flight.html) 
+with on-board GPS.  They got excited about what they saw, and became two of
+our first customers for production boards.
+
+Other than some rough edges with our first-generation ground software, Bob 
+reported that everything worked as expected, and the GPS location received 
+in the downlink got them to within about 10 feet of where the rocket set down.
+
+In communicating their success to us on IRC, Bob said "MANY thanks to you guys,
+not only for the product but also for all the help getting me to the point of 
+being able to use it !!".  The pleasure is all ours, though, because after
+Bob asked us lots of new-user questions online, he wrote up his notes for us
+as "documentation for mere mortals" that will soon form the basis of a 
+"getting started" section in our user manual.
+
+Pretty cool stuff!