Yesterday I went up to Minnesota to see a friend that I haven't seen for quite a while. Today, on the way back, I took the scenic route and stopped in a field near Maple Island, MN to watch Tripoli Southern Minnesota do their monthly launch. I arrived at the launch site shortly before 10 am when just two people were there setting up the launch equipment. They introduced themselves to me and we did the usual chit chat, "What's your name?", "Where are you from", "How did you come to be here?" etc. Through out the rest of the morning more people arrived and I got to talk to them while we waited for the FAA waiver to go into effect.
It was great fun to watch these high-powered rockets fly. A couple of them flew into the clouds. Thank God for radio tracking. I took a number of photos throughout the day. Somewhere along the line I managed to switch my mom's digital camera from the highest quality photos to the lowest quality photos. Some of the photos were somehow screwed up along the line. If any of you want to try to correct them and send them on to me that would be great. Also I activated the camera's video feature a couple of times creating videos of me walking around.
Anyways, later on I, if I can get one of the rocket guys to do it since they know more about what was going on, I might have some more details about the rockets that were flown and captions for the photos.
The launches wrapped up around 3 pm. Most of the launches couldn't have gone better. One rocket did manage to get itself lost but made quite a loud and fast exit doing it. I hope they manage to find it..
They also had Rocket Technologies onsite to provide more rocket toys. I picked up an Estes' Eliminator kit. It will be my first E powered rocket and should be a quick build. I have also read that it makes a great launch vehicle for the camera from my Snapshot rocket.
Anyways, it was a fun day. Thanks to the people of the TSM club for putting up with me. I hope I wasn't too much of a bother. :-) All of you were great to talk to. The weather was a bit sticky though.....
Saturday, July 23, 2005
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4 comments:
Daniel,
One comment. One question.
First, I love how you linked the Hy-Vee website to yours in your first post! ha ha!
Second, how do you get videos off your digital camera, onto the computer, and linked to your blog??
God's blessings to you!
Anna, I'll have to tell you when we meet in a few days.
Ok Dan, while I thoroughly enjoyed looking at the rocket photos and reading your blog, if you're going to have videos that make the Blair Witch Project look like it was shot with a steady-cam, then you need to warn me. ;) Seriously. Seeing your shoes is cool and all, but it's not necessary to make me worry about what I had for lunch when viewing it. ;P
I hope you're having a great summer, despite the locale. You know, you could always practice or something. LOL. Yeah, I know, I'm a bassoon nerd.
Dr. C
Hey, Dr. C!
Nice of you to drop by. Yeah yeah, I need to break out the horn. I really need to break down and buy some new reeds. Hmmmm. I guess teacher-student bassoon relationships don't die, they go virtual. Or something witty like that... :-)
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