L3 Cert Flight

13 responses to “L3 Cert Flight”

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   jurvetson

   Jul 21, 2008 at 6:08 pm

   RockSim:
   

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   silas miller

   Jul 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm

   Very cool!
   Congrats!
   Looks like some sort of vulcan ship or that russian su-47 fighter.

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   jimheid

   Jul 21, 2008 at 6:58 pm

   That is DAZZLINGLY cool.

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   heet_myser

   Jul 21, 2008 at 7:13 pm

   *not sure he wants to see "the really big stuff"* What, like a Soyuz?

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   benjiman

   Jul 21, 2008 at 7:44 pm

   Love the RocketSim post as well. Super kool!

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   Vix Too

   Jul 21, 2008 at 10:29 pm

   Congratulations on your L3! What a THRILL actually being there!!!

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   Dmitry Sumin

   Jul 22, 2008 at 7:42 am

   Awesome! Congratulations!

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   jurvetson

   Jul 26, 2008 at 3:48 pm

   thanks y’all. It was a blast.

   heet_myser: Well, Wedge Oldham, of Nike Project fame

   

   has a design in the works for a 1:1 scale Mercury Redstone. You know, with a capsule you can sit in before launch….

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   BenODen

   Jul 30, 2008 at 6:42 am

   @@ 1:1 MERCURY! that is incredible. Woweee. Will he launch a dummy of 180 lbs in the capsule to show that he can land the capsule in the desert fully loaded without damage?

   That would be an incredible sight to see. That’s got to be multiple Q rockets in each stage… Please let us know when that might be going up. I’d hope that could be put on video/TV for those of us who don’t make the launch.

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    heet_myser

    Jul 30, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Good lord. So, are there any restrictions (I’m thinking Homeland Security) on the size these rockets can get? I mean, anyone can get a hold of as much propellant as one needs without setting off any warning bells anywhere?

    I guess if your stream hasn’t been flagged by the Feds yet, it will be now. Sorry! 😉 I love it that you and your friends never outgrew your love of "model" rocketry. I still have fond memories of hopping on my bike after launch and pedaling madly down tractor paths between corn fields — eyes to the sky — chasing my little Estes model as it floated back to Earth. Back then, someone had come out with an SR-71 Blackbird rocket that I thought, should I come to own it someday, would be the coolest thing ever (I never got it). The picture above reminds me a bit of that model. Forget that the Blackbird was never a rocket in the first place; it was one bad ass aeronautical design.

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    In Memoriam: jerryfi_99

    Aug 10, 2008 at 3:39 am

    Looks like the old BOMARC AA missile, from the 50s-60s. Nice shot!!

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    jurvetson

    Oct 21, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    The current WIRED issue 16.11 has a cool story about this event…

    "In the bleak, seemingly lifeless terrain, the dozen or so RVs and tents look like a moon base. At the center of the camp is the Rocket Mavericks trailer. A supersize satellite dish positioned to pick up a GPS signal looms overhead. Inside the trailer are a 24-megabit satcom unit able to pump out live webcasts, a pair of Wi-Fi systems that can light 4 square miles of playa, and a Silicon Graphics workstation. Two men sweat in the cramped, un-air-conditioned space as they wrench on a black rocket 7 1/2 feet long that looks like a scaled-down cross between a ’60s-vintage X-15 rocket plane and a surface-to-air missile."

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    In Memoriam: jerryfi_99

    Oct 22, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Definitely a Bomarc flavor
    http://www.radomes.org/museum/bomarc.html
    I remember building a model of one in the late ’50s, out of balsa, based on photos… didn’t fly well ,,, 😉

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