When we got to the park I set up. Neelix
was
an ambush reporter, using our camcorder to film a news broadcast.
In addition to just having launch footage, we had a watchable news
broadcast
with ads.
(Much later, Ted captured this footage and posted it online. It can be
found on here: Logan
Ludicrous Launchers - 48 mb)
The first rocket to fly was SAM-66 (Which I am shown
holding in the picture). It thundered aloft on a "C" engine,
after
some ignition difficulties. It flew so high that it disappeared
in
the clouds. I never saw it descend. I was afraid we had
lost
it.
SAM-66 had apparently flown over the creek.
We spent a considerable amount of time searching for it. When Ted
and Humblik finally found SAM-66 it was right next to a fourplex.
When the rocket descended it was just centimeters from colliding with
the
fourplex. Ouch. The nose had fallen off and the weight was
lost.
The only other launch of the day was of Hijax. In the payload bay
I had a Star Wars: Episode I Pit Droid action figure. The flight
itself was rather uneventful. When we got home we tried to do an
interview with the Pit Droid, but we couldn't get the camera to focus
on
the Pit Droid and me at the same time. Oh well, it was a good
idea.
I'm glad that we could launch rockets that
day.
I'll take any chance I can get to show off my rockets to someone, and
what
better way than to show them off that to fly them?