Well, it’s been pretty quiet around here lately. That’s mostly my fault. Alright, it’s completely my fault. Anyway, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing things. I’ve just been quite busy doing those things.
Over spring break, I went down to the Black Rock desert in north-western Nevada where I and a bunch of other students at the University of Washington launched a bunch of big ass rockets. Despite the desert being quite cold, and getting sunburned despite it being cold, I think we all had a pretty damn good time. Our fasted rocket got to Mach 1.96, and a height above ground of approximately 18,000 feet. Here’s some pictures! These first few just give you an idea of where we are.
These next few show a few rockets going up and kicking ass (or having their asses kicked)
This one looked pretty good…
… until it buried itself.
It reminded me like a giant, more dangerous, rocket powered game of Jarts.
You know what you get when you Jart a rocket going Mach 1+? Destroyed telemetry systems. Damn people, Jarting the telemetry boards that I worked so hard to build!
And of course there were casualties other than my telemetry systems.
Last but not least, we had to get a picture of the whole group holding our destroyed rocket bits. If you couldn’t figure it out, I’m all the way on the left.
