Glenn Pickett's PageLocation: San Diego Club Memberships: NAR Biography: First launched rockets as a kid growin' up south o' San Jose, CA. Never really serious or consistent. Have sporadically launched over t' last several years as me son has been in first, Y-Guides and now Boy Scouts. Have now officially caught t' bug and have built me first HPR (LOCPrecision Norad Promaxx), which I will be usin' for me L1 cert. Have been usin' Open Rocket t' designa dual deploy, 54mm scratch build t' use for me L2 cert. No timeline for that. Just depends on loot flow and when I can afford t' parts.
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2013-04-27Norad ProMaxx - Anti-Zip modification w/ altimeter sled  . Arrr! Build Norad ProMaxx before modification
This kit be me first HPR build. I followed t' LOC/Precision instructions t' t' T although with trepidation regardin' t' recovery set-up. Without any experience beyond t' old "Estes glue the shock cord t' the inside o' t' airframe" I ... [More]
2013-04-06Norad Pro-Maxx  Flight 2nd attempt at me L1 cert. Beautiful, shiver me timbers, though, quite warm day at Plaster City (92 or so). Bit o' a wind as t' afternoon progressed - 8-10mph with gusts t' about 15. After havin' failed me first attempt due t' an ejected motor casin' I installed a motor retainer t' ensure, shiver me timbers, at ... [More]
2013-04-05Rocket Rocksim Design 
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2013-03-22Estes - Long Tom Rocksim Design 
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2013-03-02Norad Pro-Maxx  Flight This was t' be me L1 cert flight. Took advantage o' t' Cesaroni Certification promotion and got a free 2-grain motor case with t' H152BS motor I purchased. Mike Caplinger was overseein' me certification. As I was insertin' t' rocket motor into t' MMT (usin' maskin' tape as ... [More]
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