Well the second meeting of May was a small but still interesting one.
This meeting only had 2 flying members turn up but we still had a number of watchers along as usual.
The weather was again very nice with little wind but the temperature was again a little too hot and was a bit uncomfortable.
The first rocket to launch was Steve's Standard Arm scale missile on a D engine. This rocket did a nice flight but the parachute was a bit big and the rocket drifted a fair way down range to give Steve a long recovery walk.
I then launched my Flash rocket on a B4-4 and apart from doing a nice impression of a corkscrew if flew well and landed gently a short distance from the pad.
Steve's next launch was with his Sidewinder but it was a bigger Launch pad kit and not the normal Estes rocket that most of us had seen.
The Sidewinder was soon armed with a D12-3 and was ready to go.
With a quick countdown the rocket headed skywards but immediately started to loop whilst under power and we all thought it was going to "lawn dart" but the rocket did a large loop and was still about 40 feet of the ground when the ejection charge fired bringing the rocket down safely.
Steve soon recovered the rocket and after a slight modification the rocket was again on the pad and on its second flight the rocket was more stable and reached a good height before deploying its parachute and returning safely.
The last launch of the day was my Mean Machine and after the 5 second countdown the rocket headed skywards and as I fitted a smaller parachute the rocket came down a bit to quickly and landed quite hard in some long grass.
Thankfully the grass had cushioned the impact and so very little damage had been caused.
Overall the day the few people that came along had a good hours flying.