Decal Monster

Member: Will Swenson (Son of Ron)

Club: AeroPAC

Altitude: 1000'

Motor: D12

Project Goal: Participate in "DUDE, WHERE'S MY ROCKET?"

ARIES

Member: Ron Swenson

Club: AeroPAC

Altitude: 6000

Motor: K185 or K513

Project Goal: Fly my first K motor!

Dark Energy

Member: Gene Engelgau

Club: AeroPAC, Lunar

Altitude: 15,300

Motor: I59NP, I600R

Project Goal: : Dark Energy is an all-carbon precision 38mm rocket. It is 36" long and weighs just 15oz fully loaded but without motor. It's designed to hold a 38/1040 case plus a single small Fruity Chute, Feather Weight Parrot altimeter and a BRB tracking beacon. Current flights have been spectacular with tremendous acceleration and straight as an arrow flights. The most recent flight at August TCC where DE went to 11740' using a I435T. It hit Mach 1.7 and the accelerometer was maxed out at 92G.

Originally this was to go for the J altitude record, but that may that difficult. But the current I Record listed on TRA website by William Inman seems in reach. An I59 should break 15K'. I'll also try a I600 to see how high I can get using it, and how fast.

Pluto

Member: Becky Green

Club: AeroPAC

Altitude: 23,000'

Motor: M750

Project Goal: To show everyone I still know how to fly a rocket. I didn't have time to build a new one for this motor but had several others already built to choose from that could handle this motor. I decided I'd dust off the Pluto to get the maximum altitude with a minimum diameter rocket.

Attitude Stability Unit (ASU): Initial flight

Member: Bob Feretich

Club: AeroPAC

Altitude: 4000'

Project Goal: First flight of a modular compact control unit that is aware of a rocket’s position and attitude, and makes flight adjustments to keep the rocket traveling straight up.

During this flight the control canards will be held at 0 degrees deflection, while 3-D gyroscopic and accelerometer sensor data is recorded every 1.2 milliseconds. The collected data will be used as simulation stimulus for the Navigation and Control programs.

Video of the ASU initializing --

Falcon

Member: Curt von Delius

Club: AeroPAC

Motor: M1450W

Altitude: 57,000'

Project Notes: The Falcon flying on and KBA/AEROTECH M1450W suffered an R.U.D. event early in it's flight (RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY).

Both flight computers indicated a max velocity of 3489 fps or Mach 3.2083 at

4296 feet when a fin failed due to extreme aerodynamic heating. The velocity graph on the RDAS showed that it was still accelerating at 16.2 gees when the fins came off at 3.75 seconds. The RDAS also reported that the Falcon achieved a maximum acceleration of 32.3 gees at 1.89 seconds.

Phoenix

Member: William Earls

Club: Oregon Rocketry (OROC)

Motor: CTI I540

Altitude: over 11,000

Project Goal: I Class Motor Altitude Record Extreme Altitude Contest

Black Brant II Restoration

Member: Peter Clay

Club: AeroPac

Motor: Research M

Construction Photos (on Facebook)

Project Goal: At Mudrock 2009 during a wind storm the Black Brant was knocked over and a hole and 3" crack was punched into the airframe.

I stripped the rocket down and did a complete repair and upgraded the electronics too. She now sports a new paint job I am waiting on some custom vinyl lettering to finish the job. The Black Brant will be flying again this year on a Swamp Gas, 3 grain M.

This XPRS will be her 5th birthday and with luck her 6th and 7th flights.

I will most likely fly all three of the Brants in succession from smallest to largest.

UTAMARO

Member: Peter Clay + MUSASINO rocket club

Club: AeroPac

Motor: M1315

Construction Pictures (if you have a Facebook account)

Project Goal: This project is a reconstruct. In 2008 the MUSASINO rocket club came out from Japan to launch the UTAMARO, it flew well on a K550 but zippered the airframe. The cost to ship the rocket back to Japan was prohibitive and the team was going to discard the rocket. I offered to keep the rocket here and to repair it for them for a future launch.

Forward to 2010...The UTAMARO has been de and reconstructed. It now has a 75mm motor mount, onboard electronics and has been fully fiber glassed.

UTAMARO will be ready to fly again this year when the team comes out on an M1315

MIM-104 (Patriot) 1/2 Scale

Member: James Dougherty

Club: AeroPAC

Altitude: 14,000 ft

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Hokie High

Member: Ron Rickwald

Club: AeroPac

Altitude: 31,000'

Web site: Hokie High

Mercury Joe

Member: Jamie Clay

Club: AeroPac

Altitude: 2200'

Web site: MercuryJoe.com

Facebook Page

Project Goal: To get another solid flight with all cameras recording! More cameras than ever (7 total).

Coastal Eddie

Member: Kurt Gugisberg

Club: ROC

Web Page: Coastal Eddie

Altitude: 50,000 ft

Motors: AT M650 staging to AT K250

Project Goal: The goal is to get it to fly straight and recover intact. Breaking the M staged record is an added benefit.

Pegasus-II

Member: James Dougherty

Club: AeroPAC

Altitude: 45k'

Motors: AT N1000 WP / CTI N5800 CS

Project Goal: Hi-altitude bird with new upgraded electronics package featuring 5HZ GPS, remote control power and status, firmware for testing new altimeter design and HCX/LCX backup electronics.

Project Note: Flew last year to over 42K' AGL.

Astroboy!

Member: Jamie Clay

Club: AeroPac

Altitude: Good question to ask.

Motors: Aerotech single use Fs (or maybe Gs)

Facebook Pictures

Project Goal: To make Astro Boy fly a good stable flight and THIS time get some actual air!! This is the third year, and we all know third times the charm! :)

Leopard

Member: William Earls

Club: Oregon Rocketry (OROC)

Altitude: over 22,000

Motors: I140, K454, L990

Project Goal: After being out of HPR for over 4 years. I am coming back. I will be re-certifying L1 and L2 and also attempting L-Motor Speed and Altitude record. The rocket is a Mongoose 54 kit from Performance Rocketry. The rocket is all carbon fiber with graphite nose cone and T6 aluminum tip. Project is still in build process but will be completed in time for XPRS!

Organic Carbon

Member: Allen Farrington

Club: ROC

Web Page: Organic Carbon

Altitude: 50,000 ft

Motors: M650W / M650W

Project Goal: At the 2008 XPRS event held on the Black Rock Desert, Kurt Gugisberg and I decided to try to drag race to 50,000 feet for the 2009 event. In addition, we’re both going to try to set altitude records, but in different classes, so the competition will be first to 50K! Kurt, looking for the Complex M class record will be attempting a 3 stage that he’s been refining over the past few years. On the other hand, I’m taking a more conservative approach by attempting the Complex N class record with a two-stage rocket I call Organic Carbon.