One in 25/16 for the whole family! Everybody!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Russian Graffiti
Not a huge on the whole dubstep thing, but the works of Russian Graffiti (Danny Mcalinden) are always favorites.
Monday, September 26, 2011
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Tales of the Wizard
People.
I must tell you about my model rocket endeavors.
This summer, Janna and I spent much time and work building our rocket. Ours was not one of those lowly rocket kits containing only a couple plastic parts in which to mount an engine -- our kit had to be built and painted. The balsa wood fins were really delicate and took a lot of care to glue to the fuselage. Needless to say, we were both really proud of the end result.
However, it would be a while until we got out and actually launched the thing.
That happened last Sunday.
Janna and I trekked over to the KFN property to set off the rocket. We figured, "the big, spacious field they've got at KFN will be more than enough room to launch and recover our rocket." Well let me just tell you something: We were completely wrong.
Upon watching our hard work disappear into the sky, I knew this thing would probably not land where we had originally figured. The parachute deployed with no problem -- no burning -- and glided half a mile to a hill by the church parking lot.
Courtesy of Google maps, you can see exactly where our rocket took off and landed. From point A to point B. I believe you can click on it to get a better look.
We immediately headed over to the hill to search for and recover our rocket. However, the rocket was nowhere to be found. We even searched the entire church property.
So we went home. We resolved to return later to look for the rocket again, but we had little hope that we would actually recover it.
Two days ago, on Tuesday, we went back. As we were parking, I spotted something on the hill that looked to be gleaming in the sunlight. Could it be that it was the glorious white and orange plastic parachute of our beloved Wizard sitting in plain sight? There's no way we could've missed that the first time...
Well it was. It was very exciting to get it back, especially after already accepting that it was lost.
So, that's the conclusion of our model rocket launching tale.
Moral of the story?
Don't launch a model rocket anywhere with less than a 2 mile radius of flat ground. lol.
Here's some pictures:
More pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150267591831568.331946.607236567&type=1
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I must tell you about my model rocket endeavors.
This summer, Janna and I spent much time and work building our rocket. Ours was not one of those lowly rocket kits containing only a couple plastic parts in which to mount an engine -- our kit had to be built and painted. The balsa wood fins were really delicate and took a lot of care to glue to the fuselage. Needless to say, we were both really proud of the end result.
However, it would be a while until we got out and actually launched the thing.
That happened last Sunday.
Janna and I trekked over to the KFN property to set off the rocket. We figured, "the big, spacious field they've got at KFN will be more than enough room to launch and recover our rocket." Well let me just tell you something: We were completely wrong.
Upon watching our hard work disappear into the sky, I knew this thing would probably not land where we had originally figured. The parachute deployed with no problem -- no burning -- and glided half a mile to a hill by the church parking lot.
Courtesy of Google maps, you can see exactly where our rocket took off and landed. From point A to point B. I believe you can click on it to get a better look.
We immediately headed over to the hill to search for and recover our rocket. However, the rocket was nowhere to be found. We even searched the entire church property.
So we went home. We resolved to return later to look for the rocket again, but we had little hope that we would actually recover it.
Two days ago, on Tuesday, we went back. As we were parking, I spotted something on the hill that looked to be gleaming in the sunlight. Could it be that it was the glorious white and orange plastic parachute of our beloved Wizard sitting in plain sight? There's no way we could've missed that the first time...
Well it was. It was very exciting to get it back, especially after already accepting that it was lost.
So, that's the conclusion of our model rocket launching tale.
Moral of the story?
Don't launch a model rocket anywhere with less than a 2 mile radius of flat ground. lol.
Here's some pictures:
More pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150267591831568.331946.607236567&type=1
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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