Tuesday 6 May 2008

Big EARS 2008

No not the character from Noddy that got renamed due to poncy political correctness, but the annual long weekend event of the East Anglia Rocketry Society at Elsworth.
I'd been to 2 BigEARS events before and again this coincided with my birthday weekend and a public holiday :) so I had to go again. Managed to find a few geocaches too, and picked up a load of travelbugs from TDW to frop off in Germany.
Did a few flights... first up was TDW's Estes something-or-other with a D12-7 in the business end (which had been designed only for a C6 motor). Then popped off my usual pair of Art Applewhite Saucer/Qubit on E15's (they fly really well!). Loc Legacy had a double shock-cord snap, which was totally unexplained, and fortunately some kids saw all the bits land! Finally was a PML Small Endeavor on an I212-SS (3grain Pro38), which flew a bit too well, and was lost :(
Can't wait for the next events.