Tuesday August 24th 2010

	George Gassaway
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	The Senior S9A (Copter team had a rough start with two DQ's in round one. Rod Schafer got three qualified flights in, he got a bit of a thermal in round one but not any in the other two rounds.  Todd Schweim did go out in styled, hitting a big thermal for a max of 360 seconds.   The senior team ended up 12th place. It is double hard to pick lift since often when you detect it, and want to go, a bunch of other fliers have gotten into the launch queue ahead of you, and by the time they get to you the thermal is often gone. The Junior Team flew S9A Copter in the afternoon. Madga Moses and Alyssa Stenberg both got maxes in the first round, while Caleb Boe had a 114 second flight. In round 2, Caleb had the model come apart at burnout, it may have been a bad motor that ejected at burnout, but there was no way to prove it for a cato ruling. Magda had a flight of 72 seconds/ Alyssa had a flight of 90 seconds, despite descending nearly halfway down before finally transitioning (these models need more dihedral than most use). Round three, all had a good flight, Caleb for 98 seconds, Magda for 114 ,  and Alyssa for 79, the lift was spotty to non-existent by then. They ended up in 7th place as a team. I spent most of the day picking thermals, so I did not see much of the S1 Altitude flying. I did get a few photos beforehand, and when  Trip Barber and Katie Woebkenberg returned their models.  The surprise of the day was the flight of  Junior Team flier Katie Woebkenberg, which flew to 323 meters and took 5th place!  The Junior team took 6th place overall. I topok a photo of the Seniors results page, but it was "blank", with names and countries but not data. I do  not know if I missed seeing one with the real data or if it was not posted. There was a big poster-sized results board with on-the-fly results  written in by hand, but I have not taken photos of that  since the printed "final results" are better.  So, I do not have results for Senior S1. I can only say the US team did not get any medals in that event.  I do understand that Trip Barber had some good flights, but his best was about 150 meters less than the winner. Tomorrow, Scale Altitude (S5) and A Boost Glide (S4)
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Katie Woebkenberg returns her S1 Altitude model	Keith Vinyard with his S9A copter model	Magda Mosese launches her JR S9A Copter model	Trip Barber returns his 2-stage S1 Altitude model
	Contes Results Postings
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Jon Stenberg   S8 Junior Team Gold Medal! From Monday August 23rd 2010

	Steve Kristal
Another picture of altimeter turn in	Emma getting her altimeter	Emma prepping her rocket	Emma putting her model in the launch tower
	The long tube at the bottom is the piston, the big middle tube is the first stage booster, and the little finned rocket at the top is the second stage which carries the altimeter (Bottom Row #2) In FAI competition the juniors are not allowed any adult help in their launch lane so Emma had to stand on a chair to get her rocket and piston into the tower (Top Right) Emma sitting at the US Junior's launch lane prepping her rocket.  The prep included packing streamers for both the first and second stage, installing two motors, installing the altimeter, joining the stages, installing the lower stage igniter, priming the booster motor ejection charge with black powder, preparing and installing the piston launcher tube, placing the entire rocket and piston in the tower launcher, aligning the tower, installing the piston rod, hooking up the electrical igniter leads and checking for continuity (making sure she has a working electrical circuit), then notifying the range control officer that she's ready to fly and when the RCO counts her doen to zero, then she launches the rocket. Emma did it all perfectly for three launches of her two S1A models. (Top Row #3) Emma is accompanied be the assistant team manager right behind her. (Bottom left) Trip had three great flights.  These rockets are really fun to watch and reach 1500 to 2000 feet on an A booster to A sustainer combination. (Bottom Right)
U.S. Team relaxing (exhausted) after a long hot day of flying and recovering rockets
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