From: Bdale Garbee Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 20:52:24 +0000 (-0600) Subject: congratulatory first flight article X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0afae012118f44646fc85318b2d5e4a918c9e419 congratulatory first flight article --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/First_Customer_Flight.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/First_Customer_Flight.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f4db96 --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/First_Customer_Flight.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +[[!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!