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The weather on the Saturday had been pretty forgettable, with rain showers and low cloud, I was hoping for better on Sunday. As it turned out it wasn’t too bad, although there was a lot of haze and cloud, the sun did poke out for a few moments here and there and most importantly it didn’t rain. Because of the haze all the photos I’ve taken are rather poor, especially after scanning, the original prints show much more contrast. I didn’t get there particularly early and luckily I hadn’t missed anything of note as all the big rockets were waiting for gaps in the cloud cover to develop. After a bit of a wait a blue patch did appear and a number of rockets were flown, which really set things up for the rest of the day.
I can’t remember much of who flew what and in what order after that, although there were some nice flights. Richard Osborne flew with AMRAAM three times for three nice flights. Charles Simpson flew his PML Pterodactyl for another nice flight. Helen Green flew her Mercator on a large Pro54 motor, which was a departure for her normal hybrids. Damian Hall has an interesting failure when the Pro motor he was using cut out half a second or so into the burn. This resulted in the rocket bouncing as the charges went off on the ground; the fluffy payload was also slightly singed. One of the rubber chickens made an appearance for a nice flight, got to wonder what’s happened to the rest of the flock. Over all it was a enjoyable day taking photos of the flying, although I wish work hadn’t intervened as I would really like to have flown something. I can’t make next months EARS launch as I’m away in Scotland on the first of two Stag Nights. Hopefully when I get back from the honeymoon later in the year I’ll be able to fly a few more rockets at EARS launches again.
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Unfortunately due to work commitments I only managed to make it to the Sunday of this years Big EARS event. I didn’t make it to last months EARS either due to it being my fiancés birthday, so I haven’t done so well this year so far. I was hoping to have a rocket finished so that I could have a stab at the UKRA I class altitude record, but work got in the way of that as well, so I should have a load of rockets to fly at next months UKRA event to make up for it though.
First up was Paul Brooks with his DGA Armageddon on a large Pro54 motor. As you can see from the photos in the album the flight didn’t go according to plan. Ady Waters was next up with an attempt on the J altitude record, which he duly broke with a flight to over 10,000 feet. Ian Banks then flew a similar rocket in an attempt to break Ady’s new record, but again as you can see from the photos, the flight wasn’t optimal.