Sport Models

Here are some photos of my Sport model rockets.

On the left my Cobra clone lifting off on three C6-3. Right, my Semroc Defender waiting to fly on it's first flight on three A8-3.  Unfortunately only one engine lit. No damage to the model, but I had to replace the nose cone because the nose cone got buried in the ground.  The model has flown with all three engine lit.

This my N-41 model.  This model was design by Steve Foster for NARAM-41.  Only 50 kits were made.  I thought it looks like a 1950 Sci-Fi rocket ship so I painted and decaled it accordingly.

Here is an close up of the bottom of the rocket.  I name it the USS Endeavour after Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour and the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Right, Christine Rial is launching the rocket on the Pittsburgh Space Command sport range.

Here is the N-41 on it's chute.

These three photos are of my 3x scaled up Estes Mosquitos that I built from plans included in a article entitled "A Big and Bigger Mosquito" by Greg Elder. The article was published in the Holiday 1996 edition of Sport Rocketry. The Mosquito in the top photo was lost on the Sport range at NARAM-41.  The bottom two photos were of the second model I built.  It ended up in a tree at Camp Lutherlyn.  The photo on the right Is the model after it was found.  I have built another 3x Mosquito and also built the 4.6x model that was in Greg Elder's plans.

The first(left) and next to last flight(right) of my LOC/Precision Starburst.  The first flight occurred in 1987.  The model is a two 24mm engine cluster. In the left photo one of the D12-5 engines has not lit. It did light. On the right the Starburst in flying on two E9-4.  I retired the model after the next flight, which was also on two E9-4.  The model had too much wear and tear after almost twenty years of flying.

Here is my North Coast Rocketry Big Brute being launched on I believe a G40. This was a Dragon Fire high power launch held by Tripoli Pittsburgh.

This is my Maxi Icarus clone waiting to be launched(Left).  The model first launch(Right).  I have retired this model.  The fins kept getting damage on landing.  The payload section is going back to my Omega model where it came from.

My Maxi Alpha on it's first launch(Left).  The Maxi Alpha on it's parachute(Right).  The model landed in a tree and me and Dick Freed, fellow Pittsburgh Space Command Member got it down with some long polls.

This is my Estes Orbital Transport at it's first launch.

On the Left, My Estes Broadsword or as I call it La Tres Grand Bertha(French for The Very Big Bertha, because it is a scale up Big Bertha) on a E9-4.  Right, my Farside-X clone.

On the Left, me at NARAM-41 at the Classic Rocket  Fun Event with my Farside-X model(It took fifth place) and my Omega.  Behind me are one guy who all week dress as Superman.  I don't know his name.  The person on the right is Mr. Scale, Peter Alway.  On the Right is my Estes Mini Mars Lander.

Here is me in the Summer of 1981.  I am 18 years old and just graduated from high school.  I am hold my original Omega.  The first stage of this model was used in the Omega in the photo above.

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