Rockamole Regional

The 2001 Rockamole regional was held at AARG's P3 field in Pflugerville. Rain clouds and sprinkles threatened to scrub the launch on Friday, but the showers never came through. Winds on Saturday morning got the launch off to a slow start, but after a brisk frontal passage around lunch, things settled down to flyable, and quite a few birds took to the air. Events for the contest were:

• C Boost-glide
• D Super-Roc Duration
• D Helicopter Duration
• F Streamer Duration
• Set Duration (40 seconds)

Sunday morning brought light winds dropping down to almost nothing in the afternoon. Many people had held off the majority of flights until Sunday making for a busy day at the range head.

Saturday

Luis Salinas and Andrew Long work the table while James Duffy begs the wind gods for calm.	James McIntosh and Joe Peck ready a rocket on the left, while Arthur and Robert Ryan ready a Goliath with their guest Kosovare	James Duffy shows off his set duration bird - the Orbital Transport	Joe Peck shows off his scratch-built TinkerToy rocket	The TinkerToy rocket's rear ejection system.
Suzy Sprague's set duration flight	The aftermath of Dave Urban's level 2 flight and road trip across the field	Austin Ryan shows of his Super Nova Payloader	James Duffy prepares the Orbital Transport for flight	The Miner's catch a launch pad photo-op
Bob Wilson readies his colorful Skywinder and Harry Stenvall prepares his FSD	Sven James, Luis and Andrew help Warren Benson(?) check in.	Robert Ryan launches his rocket while James Duffy, Dave Urban, and his dad Arthur watch	Luis shows off the "Helicopter that went supersonic" on a D-21	Hey Bob, need a match to look in there?
James readies the Ascender with help from Mark Scheevel	Final check-out	Is that a fly on my SuperRoc?	Yes, I'm really going to fly this	Alex Mericas readies SuperRoc for flight
Alex's SuperRoc takes to the air with Ken Baker on the throttle	LCO in action	Willie checks in	Prepare to measure	How many centimeters in 9 feet?
Miners returning from an expedition	Luis Salinas readies his SuperRoc	Airframe is an 8 foot flourescent light tube	ready for liftoff	Under Power
Martin Funderburk shows off his NCR Interceptor G	Side pods are set up for motors	Ready for flight on a G80 with outboard D21's	Final prep	Ready for Liftoff
Martin Funderburk prepares his HobbyLab SR-71 glider	The glider made a giant loop and a good landing	Martin's Bomarc	photo by Joe Peck A Big Green level 1 rocket

Sunday

Ken Baker with the results of a power prang - perhaps result of a forward blow-by	James and Joe show off the Deltie that exceeded the speed of balsa on a C6	A field of SuperRocs	Jim Parker holds his SuperRoc vertical until moments before launch with the AARG rocket grabber	Rocketeers ready
is that a rocket or a fishing pole - its both	Ken Baker extracts a stuck motor with More Power	Andrew shows what's left of an F10 CATO	A sport model by Tai Fu	Alex readies a second SuperRoc flight
Luis's SuperRoc prepares for a second flight	Last sighting of Dan Miner's SuperRoc before it left for Mexico	Luis' SuperRoc takes off	A SciFi sport model by Willy	And FSD liftoff
Prep for a G SuperRoc team record attempt by James McIntosh and Joe Peck (Team Metastable)	The G SuperRoc bent, but it held together and deployed successfully	TinkerToy Rocket on the rail	No friction or diaper rash on this rail	One of the chutes stays behind
The beautiful hand-laid nose cone gets kronked	Rocket stopped but nose weight kept on going	TinkerToy rocket body lives to fly again	photo by Joe Peck Team Metastable's SuperRoc by James	photo by Joe Peck Team Metastable's SuperRoc by Joe
photo by Joe Peck Team Metastable's FSD on an F25	photo by Joe Peck Team Metastable's G SuperRoc attempt