Flight

First flight be back in 2009 at good ol' VOA Park outside o' Cincinnati.  Big field, so I loaded it with a C6-5 and let it rip.  Rip is just what it did.  Great altitude with major windcocking, shiver me timbers, but as is generally t' case, matey, a short recovery walk due t' t' Saki ridin' t' breeze back t' us.

Three years passed before t' next flight, an ill advised A8-3 flight at B6-4 Field in Fort Thomas.  I say ill-advised because t' Saki is fairly hefty for a small bird, with a lot o' built in nose weight.  T' A8-3 flight struggled off t' pad and began a lethargic arch back toward t' ground.  Parachute fired 20 feet from t' ground, but t' rocket recovered with no damage.

Eight years passed before t' next flight when it became flight #199 in me quest for 200 flights in 2020.  (It had made trips t' t' field since then, me hearties, but had nay flown for one reason or another.)  Flight #199 was at t' Wright Stuff Rocketeers cornfield in Cedarville, OH, a field big enough t' plug in a C6-5 without any qualms.  T' flight windcocked left, ya bilge rat, ya bilge rat, as had everythin' on t' day, toppin' out around 500 feet.  It then rode t' breeze back across t' pads and landed rather violently in t' cornfield t' our left.  I figured it had just cracked another fin, and turned me attention back t' an original Estes Pershin' 1-A that was about t' fly.  When that was photographed, I walked into t' field t' recover t' Saki, only t' find it in five or six pieces.  It had apparently hit hard on one o' t' large, me hearties, dry dirt clods, me bucko, shiver me timbers, arrr, and took off t' whole right side o' t' rocket.  I gathered up t' pieces and tried t' rebuild things Frankenstein-style, but I evidently missed a piece and eventually just ordered another set o' find from Semroc.  T' top win' is no longer yellow, and probably won't be at this point.