Fog was how the day started and I also had a flat battery in my car (my fault). Nevertheless I mananaged to get there for about 11 a.m.
About 30 to 40 people had turned up and the competition was in full swing. The idea was to land as close as possible to a target. The target seemed to be Peter. Having said that though, Peter was therefore probably the safest place at Stubbers since rockets never go quite where you want them to! Streamers and 'A' engines seemed the order of the day for most people. More on that competition later. Richard Osbourne turned up from Aspirespace club and had as much enthusiasm as Aerotech have power. If Richard was an engine he'd be at least a G-80.
Here were some of the other launches today: A huge polystyrene 6ft high projectile went up on two 'D's staged and flew pretty well. It landed in a crumpled heap and the seperation charge had burnt the polystyrene but this had been expected. It was a very interesting experiment which was very safe. A Tomcat did a usual Tomcat thing and dived faster than the stock exchange. A Big Bertha soared on a 'D'. Another two stager went up but on its second stage the chute seemed to open early and its flight got truncated. Still it was entertaining. Gerry Anderson would have been proud as XL5 aimed for the trees again and a silver/black Mean Machine finally flew a succesful run even if it was a bit short - at least it now fits in the boot! A Yellow Jacket called Chaos went up on a 'C' which was a bit risky with the fog still about and it was lost. Tony went searching and found the body. A minute later he stumbled across the cone. I think that was a very lucky find. Chris had an aerobatic Ninja which buzzed Peter once before finaly deciding to work properly.
Meanwhile back at the competition, Peter was still being fired at, and Trevor had got his Helicat an amazing 10ft 6 in away. Very close. This ended up in second place though.
Third went to Richard with 13ft 9in. Well done and please pick up your prise of two packs of engines. First place was won by Mike with his Viking and it landed just 9ft 3 inches away. Good shooting fellas.
It was a pity we were not measuring returning to the pad that day as my Cyclone landed just two feet away - wrong competition Cyclone.
It ended up a very pleasent flight day and sorry if I've missed a few flights. At least we didn't set Stubbers on fire this week!