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In short.. we would love to have a bunch of members come out and fly with us at our March 26<span><sup>th</sup> launch to get as many flights (and data logged) as possible. If you have a GPS logger.. please use it so we can plot as flights as possible via
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<div dir="ltr">On February 26 a team from Virginia Tech launched a single high power rocket. The flight was great ...until it landed in a power line and knocked out power to the farm. Explaining that this was again, something that doesn't happen often seemed
a hollow explanation. I am not hiding the details but for now I have reached an agreement with the farm that we need to reduce the altitude and mass of rockets until we get some hard data on wind and landing patterns.
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<div>What follows is an email I sent to Virginia Tech farm leadership and the AOE faculty advisors. If this is not clear please contact me and I will do my best to explain my agreement with the management of Kentland Farm.</div>
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<div>We may have other options closer to the back of the farm, but I am not going to rush expanding our current limits. My goal is to keep all rockets on the other side of the road and have recovery happen in the lower fields and have nothing cross the road
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<div>My expectation is that we will launch L1 type rockets, under 10 pounds and under 2,000 feet altitude. After we get some amount of flight and landing data, about 15-20 flights worth, then<b><i><u> I may </u></i></b>allow one or two higher altitude flights
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<div><b>The bottom line is this: I will make choices to lose rockets rather than lose the field.
</b>In other words if there is a chance your rocket will land on the dairy side of the road, I will angle it towards the river. If you are not comfortable with that then the choice is up to you whether to fly it and risk possibly going in the river, or not
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