ALRS 2010

My last rocketry event of the year would be the ALRS event in Switzerland again, and despite depressing weather forecasts, it was actually sunny all weekend. A few regular faces were missing this year, but the event was still busy with plenty of flights.

I didn't fly much in the end, just the VB Extreme 29 on a 24mm E15 for a perfect flight, the Saucer twice on D12s (first one spat the nozzle out, so flew again successfully), and the LOC Legacy on an F52-4T (which landed safely, despite the shockcord coming apart in flight).

There were a few "mishaps"... Mathias has a catastrophic motor casing failure (Pro75?) which caused extensive damage to the back end of the rocket:

and Frank managed to lawndart a full-carbon Raptor, which ended up in 2 bin bags:

All pics can be seen here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/andysrockets/ALRS2010