Great Launch!
Thanks to all that came out Saturday. Even though the clouds just wouldn't leave and a bit of rain made us leave early, the winds were light and we still put up over 60 flights.
Also, as a bit of an apology, sorry if we were a bit slow at the LCO table. We were doing quite a bit of experimenting (as you may have noticed) but we hope it was a good show. We have not flown hybrids much lately but with Scott working on making grains for the old Sky Ripper hardware we hope to be flying many more.
Our next scheduled launch is Crapshoot out at the Muskegon waste water facility June 10-11. Launch dates at the Horning fields in Manchester will be determined by field conditions so we will let you all know as soon as we can. Horning #2 (where we were Saturday) is probably out for the rest of the summer so we will be at Horning #1 whenever the hay is cut.
Launch is ON for May 13th!
The hay at Horning 1 is too tall to walk around on, but not tall enough to cut in the next week or so, but the Horning 2 field on Bethel Church Rd is available to us. We're working out the logistics on the trailer, so it's not confirmed yet that it will be there. I wanted to get this out to the membership as soon as possible for your planning purposes. We'll post updates as we learn more. Reminder also that the Precision Altitude Contest is open until the last launch of the year. The target altitude is 1898'. See the latest newsletter for details.
Horning #2 can be found here:
