Dude, 45K is nothing to sneeze at! Like our buddy James Marino says:
"Rocket science. Making everything else look easy for decades".
-Steve
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James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Richard
YES! I AM HAPPY :-)
Just a little bitter-sweet at the same time since my primary mission failed
(testing new video electronics :(
Oh well, we can fly it again - it needs a new antenna that got sliced off in
the wind during recovery, battery charge, and a new clear coat for sure and
she's ready to fly.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Richard King <drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
48K and full recovery used to be cause to party at Bruno’s!
I say CONGRATS!
Will work out the bugs over time/future flights.
RK
From: James Dougherty
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 9:12 PM
To: Randall Ticknor
Cc: TCC chat ; mailto:ccws4u@xxxxxxxxx ; mailto:swensonron@xxxxxxxxxxx ;
mailto:msmith9144@xxxxxxxxx ; mailto:aidan@xxxxxxxxxxxx ;
mailto:keithbawcum@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tccrockets] Re: Independence Day 2015 (ID2015) - Tripoli Central
California - Blackrock launch
For those of you wondering, LLC319050 is Lovelock VORTAC 319, a 50 nautical
mile radius (launch site from FAA).
Site B = 10 Mile radius
Site B+ = 17 Nautical Mile Radius
With flights like this, you can see why dual-deploy or apogee only is so key -
you can drift to Utah!
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:09 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
GPS data
48,729' MSL
45,552' AGL
Launch was too windy, as you can see in the KMZ it had a gust and wasn't
perfectly vertical.
Had we launched 1hr earlier it would have been maxed out.
Anyhow, 45K is not bad, you can at least see Carson and Reno on the map and
the curvature
of the earth.
I'm still licking my wounds on the lost A/V but there is always next BR launch
:-)
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:05 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, I recovered the audio file - as I suspected the system was not shut down
clean so when chdsk ran, it deleted the file. No biggy.
When I showed up, I noticed that I had hastily thrown the av-bay together and
there was a crimp on the video cable ... when I first tested the RocketPi
it recorded nothing... I then straightened out the cable, tested it again and
it worked. So, this led me to believe the cable was ok and I should fly it.
Now, what I have
found at home is that if I re-assemble the unit, I accidentally shorted the 3V
power on the cable and the system wedged!!! The cable only shorted when it was
bent - arrrgh! :(
Anyhow, I caught what happened - as I assembled the system, audio and video
shut down - the last words were "ok, let's put it together now..."
and as I slid the AV-Bay together I munched and shorted out the board ...
then, it somehow recorded some more frames, which also led to what could have
been a filesystem corruption (you can see part of the lift-off to about 10K
feet) but then it shut down again and no more vi deo. The first time it
shorted out, it seems USB audio record (arecord)
just hung after that. Alas most of the H.264 ES is corrupt but I can see parts
of the video if I look at it in Interra.
So, this is a good live and learn lesson - I will have to make the video
recorder talk to me or beep a status to know it is live - enough said.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:13 AM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm still recoversing ...
Scalpel version 1.60
Written by Golden G. Richard III, based on Foremost 0.69.
Opening target "/dev/sdc1"
Image file pass 1/2.
/dev/sdc1: 100.0% |*************************************| 14.6 GB 00:00
ETAAllocating work queues...
Work queues allocation complete. Building carve lists...
Carve lists built. Workload:
h264 with header "\x00\x00\x00\x01" and footer "\x27" --> 145048 files
wav with header "\x52\x49\x46\x46\x3f\x3f\x3f\x3f\x57\x41\x56\x45" and footer
"" --> 32 files
Carving files from image.
It's done 3 passes so far ... I will need a huge disk to go through all the
files...
More this week
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:12 AM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Randal,
Thank you - great shots!
Something happened to the onboard flight recording video when
we put it into your Surface-Pro 3 - I think you may have accidentally run
scandisk and it truncated the file (I shut off the system abruptly in the
picture you sent me so it may have deleted them).
I ran scalpel and found parts of the file -- the horror.
More later ..
-James
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Randall Ticknor <randallticknor@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Here's a link to the pictures I got of the N1000 flight. Ill try an upload
them and few more to an image site tomorrow.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0coavt7iez7iqez/N1000%20pics.zip?dl=0
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Ben Sandoval <yobenflstf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm different I hope you all have a wild night and killer flights
Sent from my Bad To The Bone iPhone "HQF"
On Jul 4, 2015, at 8:26 AM, srkendal@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Nice! Hope you all have great flights and mild nights.
Steve
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Subject: [tccrockets] Re: Independence Day 2015 (ID2015) - Tripoli Central
California - Blackrock launch
The day started with me screwing up the site coordinates (as corrected below)
- we used the Mudrock coordinates because the BALLS site was too soft and
further against the foothills
We flew about 6 HPR flights and then got beat down by the heat and some
showers and lightning storms; it cleared up and tomorrow should be awesome -
Mike Smith is flying an MD L265 and I am flying an MD N1000 both with precious
electronic bays
At the end of the day, We went to Blackrock and Mike Smith found a ruby!
More tomorrow!



Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 3, 2015, at 10:46 AM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Very important!
Launch site coordinates
N40 50' 57" W119 6' 55"
Right by Mudrock site
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 2, 2015, at 7:15 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm rolling out to the playa now, Mike Motta and I plan to meet at Brunos
tomorrow AM.
The launch location is the same at the BALLS site -
Details - http://www.tccrockets.com/id2015.html
Location
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (DMS) N40 52' 59.73" W119 2' 4.73" Decimal Degrees
(DD) N40.883258, W119.034647 (40.883258, -119.034647)
Contact on SatPhone - this will go live at 6am tomorrow morning.
You can reach me on the playa at the number below BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE COMING
TO THE LAUNCH!
This line is reserved for the FAA and people who need directions, help, or get
lost - please don't abuse it,
it's $1/minute!
1-480-768-2500,881632668865 - yes, dial the comma on your cellphone
You can store the above as James Sat in your iPhone, otherwise call me at
408-476-7391 on my iPhone.
The FAA Waivers are hot for all days and standing to 100K. From 10-12PM
Saturday and Sunday
we have an UNLIMITED waiver - yes, UNLIMITED. There is no ceiling; it took
many months of
planning to do this, AST was involved, the BLM and 5 ARTCC's. I plan to get
good at this and
then next year we can possibly try our hand on O/P and the T-Rex as Mike,
Richard, Aaron and
I have been chatting about ... :-)
See you on the Playa!
-James
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:59 AM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks guys!
It's nights of late-night prepping and getting ready for sure right now :-)
Today we got our NOTAM's with site B+ airspace!! -- call-ins to 200K AGL on
Saturday/Sunday!
Dates will be the same as this year; since the rest of the time on the playa
is occupied throughout
summer with either AeroPAC or BALLS launches (see notes from the cleaning
party).
BTW, we got knocked out completely in September because of Burning Man :(
Anyhow, here are the dates, copy/paste from FAA 7711 - mark your calendars as
they will be the same next year :-)
07/03/2015 0600-1800 Local-Rocket launches
07/04/2015 0600-1800 Local-Rocket launches
07/05/2015 0600-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/07/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/08/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/09/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/14/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/15/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/16/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/28/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/29/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
08/30/2015 0700-1800 Local-Rocket launches
11/20/2015 0900-1800 Local-Rocket launches
11/21/2015 0900-1800 Local-Rocket launches
11/22/2015 0900-1800 Local-Rocket launches
So guys, we still have the option to have either an August or November launch
at Blackrock.
BTW, we're still on for our usual launch as planned on 07/18
Best regards
-James
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Gary <gary-walker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As others have said, I too am bummed that I can't go. But, now I know what
I'll have to beg/borrow/steal/bring (Launch pad, etc) for next year.
Is the date going to be a holiday weekend again next year? When will we have
a rock-solid date so I can put in on my MUST DO calendar??
Have a great time all!!
Gary W.
From: "James Dougherty" <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "TCC chat" <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Mike Motta" <ccws4u@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:33:29 AM
Subject: [tccrockets] Re: Independence Day 2015 (ID2015) - Tripoli Central
California - Blackrock launch
Hi Folks,
Got the first Blackrock NOTAM issued today for Friday launch (07/03/15)!
NOTAM is issued standing at surface to 75K and will have dial-in to 100K
access to 200K AGL' (Site B+) from 10am-12pm.
Get your rockets ready!
-James
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:36 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Folks,
Launch details are on the website.
The launch is really simple, bring your rockets and launch pad & equipment and
I will run the FAA waiver for you.
We will have a generator.
We will have Porta-potties if someone will pick-up and return the
Portaportties in Reno.
I will be there along with our other members. This is an excellent chance to
fly some big stuff in God's gift to Rocket launch sites - Blackrock! If you've
never been to Blackrock, this is a perfect chance to learn to navigate and get
around there.
You will only have to pay $20 for the whole weekend including BLM permit ($15
donation to the club, $5 to BLM).
Best call Brunos if you have no camping plans and book a room now: (775)
557-2220
We will have a LOT of fun and meet at the launch site every morning at 9AM
till whenever!
Oh yes, rules - there are no rules other than the golden rule (do unto others)
and be in compliance with the Tripoli
safety code and local ordinances.
PS, We don't have generator and light Nazis either so if you want to crank
your music and
party all night you can do that too :-)
Thanks,
-James
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:35 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Folks,
Can I get a final tally of everyone who wants to come launch @Blackrock 4th of
July weekend (4th of JuPlaya)?
At this point, we're good to go; we have the BLM permit, FAA Waiver
and hopefully those who go will be locked and loaded now ...
Let me know, we will plan accordingly.
Thanks!
-James
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:33 AM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Mike G and Mike Smith
I know we already have at least 5 additional attendees also ... waiting to see
if we have more...
Anyhow, for those of you who haven't flown an N, here's a perfect chance to do
that while getting all of the love and help
from your fellow TCC fliers!!!
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Michael Gentile <smmike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guys I'm putting in CTI & A/T orders on Monday, 6/8 to arrive end of June.
Please get me your needs/ orders over the weekend. Particularly large
54mm motors, 75's & 98's. Next delivery is late August. Help me help you!
Cheers!
Mike @ BAR
510-461-0863
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On Jun 4, 2015, at 6:43 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Folks,
Great news! Bummed about DairyAire this year - here is your chance to make
up for it!
We managed to plan and put together a TCC Club launch out at Blackrock on
the weekend of Independence Day (4th of July) ! We also have a commitment
from Bay Area Rocketry
to for the weekend for as our vendor.
Launch Dates
Friday 07/03 (6AM to 6PM - Site B+ (150K+) from 10AM-12PM)
Saturday 07/04 "
Sunday 07/05 "
The FAA has approved our flight operations from surface to 150K (146K AGL)
and the range will be open from 6AM - 6PM for all 3 days of the event
(the whole weekend).
Launch Site A (BALLS Site)
DMS N40°52'59.73" W119°02'04.73"
DD N40.883258, W119.034647 (40.883258, -119.034647)
(Alternate site available for large projects)
If you are planning high altitude flights up to 50K AGL, please send your
package with all supporting paperwork to me and Richard King for approval.
If you're flying over 50K AGL, you will need approval by the Tripoli
Class 3 Committee 90 days prior to flight. Since the FAA was delayed this
year in issuing our COA, please get your Class 3 package together ASAP
and I will have it submitted (I already have mine approved from last
year so if you have questions or need an example, email me off chat).
The club DOES not plan to bring launch equipment to the event this year;
it's strictly bring your own gear (like BALLS). However, if there are
people willing to haul equipment, we can arrange for 1-2 pads and I am sure
you can bargain with people for use of their gear.
We will arrange for Portapotties and there will be a few areas to hang out
(our Blackrock Lounge as usually done at BALLS).
Launch fees: $25 for the entire weekend!
We can discuss more at the June launch, but now is your chance
to get some good rocket flying in (next 6 weeks will be pure Rocket fun)!
I'll get the website updated in a bit. But now can I see a show of hands for
who's going?
Thank you!
-James
President, TCC

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