Place:  Orangeburg, SC, August 11&12 2001    www.tripolisc.com

Photographer:   Frank Terhaar-Yonkers  TRA 8325/level2
                Raleigh, NC
Camera: Nikon CoolPix 990 (digital, 3.34Mpixel)
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Burl M Finkelstein (of Newman GA) and his Phoenix
NAR (level 2): 76862 Tripoli (now level 3): 8733
RDS ( Maximum Thrust) 9-1/4 parts kit
Fully glassed
78# at take off loaded with AT M2400
18' main cut from 24 military reserve by Martie Hamilton
Skyangle 52 on nose pulling bag off main
Dual AltAccs firing single charges with dual Davey fires in each charge
Launched off a 10 foot one inch rod.
"Was off the pad on like a Estes Alpha on a B motor."
    4300ft altitude
Note the "crush can" to absorb landing impact.

Successful Tripoli L3!

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CATO!
Bob Schoner
Prefect - Tripoli Charlotte, NC
http://users.vnet.net/bschoner

5.5" Standard ARM from Rocket R&D

Note the unburned grains falling to the ground ..

Quote from Bob:
"It was fiberglassed and had at least 10, maybe 12 L motor flights.  It has been
over 5,000 feet at least 6 times.  It had close to 20 flights, and was my
favorite rocket to date.  It was reliable and flew very straight.  (can you
tell this is an emotional experience for me?)  It was the white rocket in
the skidmark dragrace at LDRS XIX.  The last real flight was on Saturday (Aug 11)
with the same motor case, 3" 4500 n/s Kosdon with a Kosdon L820 slow load.
It went 7483 feet and landed about 120 yards from the pad.  The motor that
CATO'd was a fast load for the same case, a Kosdon L1500 fast."

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Public Enemy 4" BullPup
Frank Terhaar-Yonkers  TRA#8325  W4FTY
Glassed, "Anti-zipper" dual break airframe, 6.6lbs (without motor)
38mm AT-J570 motor
BlackSky AltAcc
Skyangle 44" chute
5000' (est, download of data didn't work)

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Another of mine ..
Fuzzy from too much shaking - digital cameras are a REAL PITA to
stop motion with.  Also the reason I don't have MORE pictures, but
I'm getting better at it. Included for your amusement ..

A scratch-built 5" "Crayon"  ( www.ralphco.com ) heading up
on an AT-K550.  The ball of flame partially melted the tailcone ..
6.8lbs, altitude (est) 6500'

Recovery was an "adventure" on this one:
The main came out at Apogee instead of 500' and it drifted for 
3+ miles and had to be recovered via RDF (and climbing spikes).  
The RDF beacon was scratch-built as was the Yagi antennae.  Operates on the 
70cm "ham" band.  (See http://www.birch.net/~petek/RDF/70cm.html )
Same basic design as Pete's but upgraded to a new xmitter (TXM2)
( http://www.radiometrix.co.uk/products/txrx2p.htm )
and customized code in the PIC processor.