IRW+2006

= = =INTERNATIONAL ROCKETRY WEEK IRW2006 (LARGS, SCOTLAND)=

Yet another IRW..!! My son and I arrived late Wednesday afternoon and set up camp. The weather was fantastic.



View below shows the view from the camp site over to the Isle of Cumbrae

I launched my Saturn IV a few times with limited sucess. 3 x D12 power is a little over the top and it tends to be sligtly unstable.
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David launched his Estes Patriot quite a few times. This flies well and is reliable. Streamer reovery keeps it well within the flying field.
 * Pad cam video of the Saturn IV taking off on 3 x D12 power**
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[|Patriot_Estes_launch_IRW2004.avi]**
 * Pad cam of David's David's Patriot on a C6-5
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The Haribo rocket has been around for years now and still keeps flying. One of the flights went a bit AWOL into a tree. But all was ok to fly again.

[|Haribo_launch_D12_a.avi]**
 * Pad cam video of the David's Haribo rocket on a D12-3




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Sean's Thunderhwak again had many flights and is still flying today. C6-5 power. High altitude and streamer recovery Fish and chips is a must at Largs. These must be the best in the world!!...The sunsets are not bad either.
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Image below is me and Sean setting up the Mosquitos for a drag race. They fly on 3xD12-3 power each. Thay have flown well on E's too.



This year, only one of the rockets ignited. The one that launched crashed after the chute failed to open. Sadly no drag race this time with only one left! Images below show the launch of each rocket. The second did deploy ok. The first one crahsed in!
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[|Mosquito_1.avi]**
 * Pad cam of the rocket taking off

[|**Mosquito_onboard_1.avi**]
 * Inflight video of the Mosquito coming in**

[|**IRW2006_Mosquito_crash.avi**]
 * Grounch launch video of the crash**

The remains of the first Mosquito above after the chute failed to deploy. We still are not sure why it happed?
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The Space plane above was a modified upscale version of a plan that I had (not sure where I got it from). My version did fly, but not very well. Maybe it was overpowered with 3 x D12 motors?? Sean again is the man on the button.....yes, he ducked! [|Space_plane.pdf]

[|**Space_plane_ground_1.avi**]
 * Video of a more sucsessful flight of the space plane**
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Image above shows me and and my son David gettting the spaceship ready for yet another flight. The first flight would not go according to plan as you will in the vidoe and images below. Sean is always the ginuepig when pressing the button!

What appears to have happened is that both of the nozzels in the D12 motors blew out a fraction of a second after ignition. The spaceship only went to the top of the rail before coming back down and setting fire to the pad and the space ship!

[|Pokemon_fire.avi]**
 * Pad cam video of the Pokemon fire:-

Image above shows the melted under side of the Pokemon spaeship. It would fly again! Second flight was a complete sucsess. It looks a bit battered though!
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[|Pokemon_padcam.avi]**
 * Pad cam video of the Pokemon spaceship take off:-

[|**Pokemon_ground_1.avi**] [|**Pokemon_ground_2.avi**]
 * Some videos of the Pokemon in flight**




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David launched his Wizard on an I154 at the HPR site. Sadly the ejection was too early this time (not late as usual) and the nose cone came out and ripped the chute off with it. The nose cone drifted away and the rocket whistled in fast. Luckily the ground is soft and the rocket suffered little damage. It will fly again.

[|IRW2006_Wizard.avi]**
 * Ground launch video of the Wizard





I fly my level 2 IRIS on a K660W. What a flight!! [|IRW2006_IRIS_K660.avi]**
 * Ground launch video of the IRIS

[|IRIS in flight IRW2005 K660.avi]**
 * In flight video of the IRIS

[|IRIS padcam IRW2006 K660.avi]**
 * Pad cam video of the IRIS
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Sean flew his Level 2 Pheonix on a J330 and some outboard G motors ignited with an Ozark. The outboards for some reason fired late one after another. The rocket was powering into the hill side. The chute deployed about 100 feet above the ground and ripped the chute off as the rocket flipped around. It took until the next day to find the remains of the rocket on the hill side. The damage was little considering what happened.

[|IRW2006_Pheonix.avi]**
 * Ground launch video of the Pheonix


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I flew by Buzzard on a C6-5 a few times.





A trip over to Cumbrea is always a must at the end of the meeting. It was a good IRW this year. Next year will be somthing else. I hope to fly my level 3 IRIS on full M power!!.See you all next year.
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