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"F" Class Altitude Record
Who: William Inman What: 6,786 feet When: Sept. 16, 2001 Where: Silver Lake (Near
Wendover, UT) Bill e-mailed me his description of his "F" class record flight:
The "F" record was
set with a single stage 24mm minimum diameter scratch-built fiberglass rocket I
called "F" TROOP at Silver Lake, the alternate to Bonneville Salt Flats,
during the 2001 HellFire launch. It used a carved balsa nosecone given to me by
Brad Overmoe (thanks Brad!) after an unsuccessful flight and loss of my first
nosecone the day before, and my own designed first generation
trans-sonic/supersonic fins. Power was from a single Aerotech F32W-15 single use
24mm motor and it was tower launched out of my 10 ft. tower. It used a single
Adept ALTIM05-50K altimeter and used motor delay deployment with one parachute
for the booster section and tumble recovery for the payload and nosecone. The F32W motor at 80 newton-seconds is 100% of maximum "F" class
total impulse.