July Sod Farm Triathlon
 

This years Sod Farm Triathlon will involve a kit bash of the Estes QCC Explorer rocket (#3221)



It will involve 3 events using the same rocket:



1. A "Best Rocket" event to be judged by all of the participants. We will all judge who

has built the best bash of this kit.



2. Parachute duration on a C-11 motor.



3. Spot landing on a D-12 motor.





When building your rocket you may use anything that comes with the kit including the plastic and cardboard. You may also use one additional 3x24 inch sheet of 3/16 or 1/8 inch balsa.



You may use any parachute or streamer you would like in the flying events. You do not have to use the parachute that it comes with the kit and you can use a different parachute or streamer for each event. Remember the kit does not have a tracking device in it so you will not be allowed to have a beeper or a tracker in the rocket.



Your rocket must survive and be flyable after each event to qualify. If you loose it or break it your out.



We will continue giving points for the top finishers as we have in the past. Since there will bee a lot of effort put into building this time the "Best rocket" event will have a little more weight to it.



1st place = 4 points

2nd place = 3 points

3rd place = 2 points

4th place = 1 point





For the Duration and Spot landing events the winners will receive the following:



1st place = 3 points

2nd place = 2 points

3rd place = 1 points





You may start building on Jan 25th.



Remember the winner of this event gets their name in the hat for the drawing at the Christmas party. The winner will have a 1 in 12 chance to win a great prize so get building!





Dan

This is going to be fun, I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with. Sather, remember you only get to use ONE of those kits!

Kelly took one. She has a pretty novel idea, and is pretty excited about it. And I am indeed limiting myself to only one kit. At a time.

Just a bump to remind everyone that the Triathlon is coming up. See the above for the rules and events. The only thing I will add is that you may use some nose weight if needed as long as it is not anything like electronics. Inert matter only :) Sorry to those who asked and were told they needed to use only what was in the kit for this. We can take that into consideration during the judging. I am making a last minute change after thinking about it.


Now for the big news. There will be a very nice 1st place prize for this event. I will be announcing it at the meeting and will then put it up here. All I can say at this time is fiberglass.

OK along with getting your name in the hat for the end of the year raffle the winner of this years event will receive a Wildman Mini Dark Star rocket!


I hope the fire ban gets lifted soon.

That's awesome, I can't wait to build it! Guess I better get my rocket finished.

I might be down to the 3 fins and a nose cone thing myself. Good thing there are 3 events.

I didn't put my usual TLC into mine - it's not real purdy, but it's done.

I am still waiting. Glue that is really set up adds weight so I may do it the night before.

Does New Berlin have a burn ban in place?