Month: August 2016

28 August WSMC 2016 Event Results

Noosphere did a terrific job promoting the 2016 WSMC event.  This YouTube video highlights some very impressive flights:

Final Days event ended with Scale Model Competition for Senior and Junior Division.

Saturn V
Saturn V

The Individual Senior competitor from the Czech Republic, Jan Sebesta submitted a scale model of the Saturn V .  The static scoring points were 516 for static display. He was one point shy in the static scoring against the Ukraine Mykoia Pushkar who entered a scale model of the Zenit 3SL rocket who had a static score of 517.  Jan’s Saturn V rocket had a successful first launch that gave him a score of 240 (Total points 756).  Mykoia had a DQ on his first attempt.  The second flight attempt was successful, however he only

Zenit 3SL
Zenit 3SL

gained 236 points (Total points 753).  It was a very very close competition.

Complete results of the days events are here:

28 August WSMC 2016 Results

Final results of the 2016 FAI S World Championship for Space Models

http://www.fai.org/fai-slider-news/41967-eventid9881-final-results-of-the-2016-fai-s-world-championship-for-space-odels

 

Estes Mega Mosquito on a CTI E22-5 Smokey Sam Reload

Estes Mega Mosquito with digital camera
Estes Mega Mosquito with digital camera

The little E 22 CTI 24mm 1-grain reload worked perfectly with a 5 second delay. The camera is the keychain digital camer model 808 #16 model.  The holder is a 3D printed shroud that can be easily attached to a 2.0 inch diameter body tube.

The web link is: http://additive-aerospace.myshopify.com/collections/video-camera-shrouds/products/808-16-camera-shroud

and the creator is Andrew Diehl.  He can be contacted at Andrew@AdditiveAerospace.com