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This was our first launch after Cambridgeshire had been declared potentially free of foot & mouth and the farmer had lifted the restrictions on his land. I was expecting loads of people to come and fly as most of them hadn't launched for over 5 months and you could tell that they were desperate to burn some AP. In total though we only had nine registered flyers who made a total of 27 flights and burned 4,697 Ns of propellant. Having said that, there were a stack of people who came to watch, at one point a car full of youngish studenty folks turned up and watched for a few hours before departing. I've got no idea who they were, but they're more than welcome to come back and lob some rockets. I think in retrospect, quite a few people were just coming along to see the site and what they could fly from it before bringing any rockets. Also the fact that Pete was there selling stuff might have had something to do with it as well.
Chris Eilbeck flew his GSF rocket on an I200 for a cracking flight. If you haven't tried this 29mm motor then you should, it's a great bit of hardware to own and with the new Redline motors there's now two reloads for it. At this point I even managed to launch my Level 1 certification rocket on yet another H220. I've really got to start flying some other motors and other rockets. Gary Sinclair was up next with his modified BSD Horizon for a crack at Level 1 with an I161. Everything went well and he flew a few more rockets on I's for some nice flights. Stephen Woolhead had a crack at Level 2 with his trusty AMRAAM on a J800. Unfortunately the mighty J800 was a bit too much for it and it shredded spectacularly at max Q. the rocket was basically a write off, which was a bit of a shame as it was a nice flyer. There were quite a few flights made after all of that with the notable ones being two flights of R.A.T.T. Works I80 motors by Richard Osbourne. He even managed to recover both of them intact, which was quite cool. Proceedings were finished up with Gary Sinclair's Yank Bullet on an I211, which was really cool with the smoke being back lit by the sun.
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It's now August, so I can't really remember much about the May launch so I'm going to have to rely on the flight cards to jog my memory. One thing I can remember though is the fact that foot & mouth was supposed to be going away, amazing that they are still slaughtering thousands of animals 6 months after the outbreak started.
First up was Roy Trzeciak-Hicks with a scratch built rocket and a micro hybrid motor. These motors burn nitrous out of a sparklet bulb and paper and a quite cool, although you need some for of electronic deployment, as they don't have an ejection charge. Steve Gibbings flew his Launch Pad Exocet on an E15 for a interesting flight, he couldn't fly it again due to a cracked fin root.