100k Rocket Launch

[Bean]

February 9th is actually one of my favorite days of the year. It's come into play a couple of times in my life for important events. I'm hoping that the rocket does get launched then.

[Mr. Foetus]

Waaa, I thought I replied to this already.

Really sad that the launch day got put off, but at least it's still happening. It's a lot better than having it start to rain in the middle of the event. Let's just hope February's as dry as everyone thinks it'll be, though. I seem to recall prancing about in the rain around that time, but I'll stay positive. XD

[joshmnky]

I was actually scheduled to launch a rocket tomorrow, but it got cancelled because the people sending my team a new parachute forgot to do something er other, and we didn't get it in time.  The funny thing about this project is that I'm the one who designed it, and I am the only one on the team with no prior rocket design experience.

Building it took up our entire Christmas break, and I had no confidence in it.  When the first flight went flawlessly, I wept.

[Dashe]

This thing's set to launch tomorrow. There's a 30% chance of rain and they expect it to go off around 2:30 PM. It'll be filmed instead of streamed and then posted to the YouTube channel afterward.

[Loken]

Can't wait. I'll force my girlfriend into watching it with me. I wish it was streamed though, makes its a bit more exciting but I understand the risk.

[Bean]

I hope Mega was able to beat Rocket Man to take his power to fly high. I want that rocket launched today!

Edit: Success!

[joshmnky]

So has it flown yet? Can someone post a link?

[Kyle]

Feb 10, 2013 16:29:26 GMT -5 joshmnky said:

So has it flown yet? Can someone post a link?

Well, the rocket has been launched, but according to GMOTM, it's going to take about four weeks before you'll see an official video. In the meantime, here's a video that somebody in the crowd took;

[Loken]

Seems a bit strange for them to publicly announce the launch date if we'd have to wait weeks to see their video.
I would have thought that it would have flown farther but it's kind of hard to tell just how far it flew in that video. I wonder whats left of it and if they put a camera on it.

[Dashe]

From what I heard the rocket's still in really good shape. Jesse's taking a month to make it into a short film so it looks really impressive. I think it's for the best. The first response to the post he made about it on the 100k page pretty much called 100k a bunch of idiots, to put it inoffensively.

[Bean]

I'm guessing it was quickly deleted because I haven't seen anything negative about it on the FB page anymore.

[Dashe]

Yeah, it was. Thank god someone knows how to use the report function. Ever since Facebook changed it again I've been having trouble with that.

[joshmnky]

I'm surprised it flew so well. Those forward rocket pods probably put the center of pressure relatively high on the rocket, so I'm guessing they had to put a little extra weight in the nose to balance it out. The fact that this thing didn't loopty loop into an onlooker tells me that the guy commissioned to make it is a true craftsman and a little OCD.

[EX]

That rocket has excellent design, please tell me there are design sketches of this, it speaks to me~ (crazy artist mind is crazy)

Aside from that I'm happy it's a success! Can't wait to see more footage.

[Kyle]

Soooooooo. Now that it's been over a month since the rocket was launched, what's the story about that video? Haven't really seen any updates or news about its current progress.