Who:  William Inman

What:  13, 278 feet

When:  Nov. 27, 1999

Where: El Dorado Dry Lake, NV

Bill named this rocket I Be Bad Too; the "too" designation added because the first iteration was lost in 1999 at the "Hell Fire" launch. This rocket is a single stage 38mm minimum diameter, with the airframe being fiberglassed phenolic. Bill used a LOC/Precision ogive nosecone and his first revision supersonic optimized fin design, which can be described as a long delta configuration placed less than half a caliber from the base. The motor was a 38mm Aerotech I132W single-use; a 94% "I", with a long burn time of 4.8 seconds, making it an obvious choice for this category. As with most altitude record flights, he employed a tower launcher; in this case his first generation 8 footer. Recovery was based on main-only parachute deployment with a sole Adept ALTS2-50K altimeter.