Members Launch With linux.conf.au Attendees January 2011

Well it has been anything but good weather for rocketry in Queensland in the last few months.  Many have been affected by the tragedies and loss surrounding the recent events in our part of the world.  We here at Ausrockets would like to suggest to all of our readers that you support those that have suffered most in recent weeks and do as we have done and donate generously to the Queensland Premiers Flood Appeal - http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html.  

January 30th saw QRS hold its first launch of 2011 and we were joined by a large contingent of attendees from the linux.conf.au (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/) that was recently held in the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane.  It was a pleasure to meet BDale Garbee, Keith Packard and all the other conference goers that joined us for our launch and launched a bunch of rockets they had been working on during the conference to highlight the usage of the OpenRocket (http://openrocket.sourceforge.net/) software. 

 

There were a number of great launches on the day including Shirley's successful L1 and L2 certification flights and L1 Certifications for Nic and Mark.  Congratulations to all of you!

I personally launched both my PML Mystic on a G76-7G and PML Sudden rush on an I154J - the were both great flights.

Check out the video below to see a selection of the flights from the day. 

Unfortunately the Ausrockets team won't be able to make the February launch, but we will be back for the March launch and look forward to bringing you all the action from the first public launch of 2011.

- The Ausrockets Team.