Chris Gonnerman's PageAKA: Solomoriah Location: La Belle, MO, USA Favorite Quote: "What does this button do?"
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2024-02-25Mo' Skeeter  Flight It flew beautifully as usual, and landed 8 paces from the launch stand it left from. - B4-4 - Veteran's Park, Macomb, IL [More]
Groovy, Man  Flight It flew well, spinning slightly on the ascent, and recovered nicely inside the field. - B4-4 - Veteran's Park, Macomb, IL [More]
2023-10-22Vintage Centuri Vector V  Flight It was a low flight as expected, but straight and true, deploying perfectly and recovering on the only concrete pad near the launch stand. This resulted in some cosmetic damage to a fin but nothing serious. It will fly again, I'm sure, in another decade or so. - A8-3 - Fairfax Society of Rocketry ... [More]
Centuri Nomad (Clone)  Flight The rod whipped a bit and the rocket arced as a consequence. It deployed well, though, and landed very close to the LCO's table, popping off one fin. - B6-4 - Fairfax Society of Rocketry Site [More]
Baffler  Flight Baffler came off the rod with authority and boosted at a slight angle to the southeast. Deployment was early as expected but not as bad as it could have been; it drifted rather a long way past the launch area and recovered with just one bruise on an engine tube. - 3*C6-3 - Fairfax Society of ... [More]
Patriot X  Flight This flight was remarkable only for being nearly perfect, almost straight up, modest drift, recovered undamaged inside the field. - C6-5 - Fairfax Society of Rocketry Site [More]
Mo' Skeeter  Flight As usual this rocket turned in a pretty, nearly straight flight with just a bit of arch to the southeast, drifting back toward the launch pad and recovering near the launch stand. - B6-4 - Fairfax Society of Rocketry Site [More]
2023-09-02Goonybird Zero  Flight Excellent straight flight, slight drift northward but recovered fine. Minor fin damage to one trailing edge due to ejection, but will fly again. - B6-4 - Vince Grady Field, Macomb, MO [More]
Der Redship Max  Flight The rocket had a low flight, but the recovery nose-down under parachute worked perfectly and the fins were undamaged. Unfortunately, the wadding did not clear from the tail cone and it was deformed by the retained heat. - B6-2 - Vince Grady Field, Macomb, MO [More]
Mo' Skeeter  Flight Beautiful straight flight, drifted to the north but recovered within the field. - B6-4 - Vince Grady Field, Macomb, MO [More]
2015-09-23Skylark OpenRocket Design [More]
2014-01-08Quest Evader Cruise Missile (Kit)  Review
Single stage missile-like rocket with an unusual compound nose cone.
I picked this one up while passing through St. Louis; I had never seen one like it. Not surprising, I later learned, as I was able to find it in the early Quest catalogs on Ninfinger's site, but not on the current ... [More]
2010-12-24Mo' Skeeter (Upscale)  Review
This is my Mo' Skeeter, a 320% upscale of the classic Estes Mosquito . It's a rear-ejection model, which avoids the visible nose cone line that most Mosquito upscales suffer from.
Components
This rocket consists of a Baby Bertha cone , 6" of BT-60, 6" of BT-20, two 20-60 ... [More]
2008-09-25Scratch New Centurion (Scratch)  Review
This is my upgrade/semi-clone of the classic Centuri Centurion. It incorporates an offset-tube baffle, breaks at the midline (at the baffle) and features three interchangeable engine mounts: 1x18mm, 2x18mm, and 1x24mm D/E.
Cygnus 1x24mm E Engine Mount Kit
Cygnus 2x18mm Engine ... [More]
2007-09-24Estes X-Prize Lucky Seven (Kit)  Review
This is a semi-scale model of the Acceleration Engineering "Lucky Seven" rocket, one of the contestants for the Ansari X-Prize.
This is a largely plastic rocket. The package includes a three-piece plastic nose cone (two side halves and a bulkhead), a plastic body tube with integral bulkhead, ... [More]
2007-08-16Custom Rockets Galileo Probe (Kit)  Review
Brief:
The Custom Galileo is a cute little helicopter recovery rocket. Mine was an Father's Day gift from my wife. This is a
skill level 2 rocket.
Construction:
The kit contains standard BT-20 tube and ogive balsa cone, three small balsa fins, dowels, paper centering ring ... [More]
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