blog about first TM mounted in a rocket for test flights

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+Last night, I stayed up late reworking the avionics bay in my
+[Giant Leap](http://giantleaprocketry.com)
+[Vertical Assault](http://www.rocketreviews.com/reviews/all/gl_vertical_assault_3.shtml) 
+kit.  This is the rocket I set my personal best altitude to date of 14,141 feet
+above ground level with.  The Missile Works
+[RRC2 mini](http://www.missileworks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1) will move to a lesser airframe to keep it below 10k feet AGL
+since it's an early unit with the supposedly-buggy early firmware.  In its
+place, I've mounted a PerfectFlite
+[MiniAlt/WD](http://68.178.208.82/cgi/PF_Store/perlshop.cgi?ACTION=enter&thispage=MAWD.html&ORDER_ID=!ORDERID!) to handle primary deployment duties... and
+serial number 1 of [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum)!  
+
+Weather has been an issue in Colorado recently, but as soon as we get a decent
+launch day (maybe as early as this weekend?), I'm looking forward to flying
+this rocket on one or all of the
+[Cesaroni](http://pro38.com/) I205, I540, and J285 currently in my box to get
+some initial flight data recorded.
+
+Meanwhile, [Keith](http://keithp.com/keithp) has completely rewritten the guts
+of the firmware in the last few days to eliminate 
+[FreeRTOS](http://www.freertos.org/) since it turns out to just be too heavy
+for our needs on this project.  My board now is now running a snapshot of his
+latest work, and in bench testing I've confirmed that it can do launch detect,
+log sensor data until the non-volatile memory chip is full, and dump the raw
+data over USB for analysis after a flight.  
+
+Weather has been an issue in Colorado recently, but as soon as we get a decent
+launch day (maybe as early as this weekend?), I'm looking forward to flying
+this rocket on one or all of the
+[Cesaroni](http://pro38.com/) I205, I540, and J285 currently in my box to get
+some initial flight data recorded.  Keep your fingers crossed for me that 
+the storm front headed towards us clears out by the weekend!