What's New

Feb 25, 2010	Added Puget Sound Propulsion to links page.
May 31, 2009	Added a new page with photos, videos and more from the FITS 2009 launch that I attended over Memorial Day weekend.
Mar. 22, 2008	Updated home page with a picture of Angelfire flight #15. Also updated my launch schedule at the bottom of that page.
Dec 28, 2008	Added my XPRS 2008 launch report. Added a new page showing the construction of the Wildfire camera module. Updated Wildfire video page with two new HD onboard videos. (Worth watching!) Updated Wildfire photos page with flights 24-27. Updated Angelfire photos page with flights 15-18. Updated Angelfire trajectory page with data from flights 14-18. All of these recent Angelfire and Wildfire flights also have links to audio recordings of Kate's flight announcements. Also updated the Starfire videos page and the Coldfire photos page.
Dec 26, 2008	Updated flight log.
July 27, 2008	Added my Desert Heat 2008 launch report with flights of Angelfire, Wildfire and Coldfire. I flew my 50th M-motor at this launch!
July 21, 2008	Updated my flight log.
July 12, 2008	Added my Summer Skies 2008 launch report. It was fantastic fun! Check it out.
June 1, 2008	Added photos of Angelfire flight #14. Also Coldfire flight #2 and flight #3. Also added photos of Hybrid Dart flight #19. Also Scorpion flight #33 (which was my 250^th high power flight!)
Jan. 20, 2008	Updated my launch schedule for 2008 on the main home page. Also added a photo and a link to the launch pad page about a nice launch pad design built mostly from 8020 hardware.
Jan. 19, 2008	Changed my email address due to the large volume of SPAM that was being sent to the old address after it had been publicly posted on this web site for so many years. (The new address is presented in a way that is less likely to attract SPAM but I guess we'll have to see how it works out.) Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Jan. 5, 2008	Added a link on my home page to a website review written by Darrell Mobley of Rocketry Planet.
Dec. 2, 2007	Added GPS flight trajectory from the Angelfire flight (#13) on Oct 27, 2007. Also added analysis of the ARTS altimeter data from that same flight.
Nov. 24, 2007	I have been asked this question several times so I added a few hints for drawing nosecones in AutoSketch.
Nov. 18, 2007	Created a Flight Data page that links to Angelfire GPS trajectory data and to Angelfire altimeter data for many different flights. The idea is to collect all flight data into one place. Also linked the Flight Log page from the new Flight Data page. The Flight Log page link in the menu at the top and bottom of every page has been replaced by the more general Flight Data page link. Updated Links page with a link to the NASA "Beginner's Guide to Rockets" index.
Nov. 17, 2007	Added a page with a collection of Angelfire launch videos. Added video of Angelfire launch at FITS 2006. Updated my photo at the bottom of the home page. The previous one was 10 years old. The handsome guy in that old photo is no where to be found!
Nov. 11, 2007	Added a page with my launch report for the Summer Skies launch held in June 2007 at the Oregon Rocketry site.
Nov. 3, 2007	Added a page about using Front Panel Express to make metal plates for thrust rings, motor retainer plates, centering rings, bulkheads and control panels. Added a link to the World Wide Launch Sites data base created by Apogee Components. Also added a link to What's Up Hobbies to my links page. Updated Wildfire page with photos from flights #17-20. Updated the Vulcan photo page with flights #22-26. Added Starfire flights #10-14 to the Starfire photos page. Added Angelfire flights #5,6,8 to the photos page. Added Scorpion flights #32 and #30 to the photos page. Added Starfire flight #15 videos to the Starfire videos page.
Nov. 2, 2007	Added Wildfire flights # 21-23 to the Wildfire photos page.
Oct. 29, 2007	Added Angelfire flights # 10-13 to the Angelfire photos page.
Oct. 28, 2007	Added 15 pages of construction photos of Coldfire! They can all be accessed from the main project page that is here. Also added a new page of Coldfire launch photos. Updated Starfire photos page, in particular with Starfire flight #16 report and some nice aerial photos of the Snake river canyon. Also updated the Angelfire photos page with photos and GPS data from flight #9. Also added a page about AutoSketch and my rocket design drawings. Updated my flight log.
Oct. 21, 2007	Fixed an error in the example on the altimeter port sizing page. Also (finally) added text to the Starfire pages for the booster E-bay, finishing, and rail guides. Added photos to the middle of the launch pad page that came from Bob Yanecek showing his tower launcher. Added link to Walston Retrieval to my Links page. Also added a link to Launch Magazine to that page.
Oct. 16, 2007	Added my XPRS 2007 launch report.
Aug. 25, 2007	Updated my flight log.
Aug. 20, 2007	Added five new pages about the LDRS-26 launch recently held near Las Vegas. Page one describes the event, page two is about the Angelfire flight, page three covers the Starfire flight, page four covers the Wildfire flight and page five is about Scott Carter's flights.
June 10, 2007	Added a new page with photos and a video from the FITS 2007 launch that I attended over Memorial Day weekend.
Feb. 28, 2007	Posted some information about the Italian version of my launch controller design.
Feb. 22, 2007	Updated my launch schedule for 2007.
Jan. 7, 2007	Added a page that shows lots of different kinds of high power launch pads.
Jan. 6, 2007	Updated my flight log with all my flights from 2006.
Dec. 2, 2006	Cleaned up some formatting problems throughout the site that showed up when viewing pages with Netscape.
Nov. 30, 2006	Added five new pages from the XPRS launch in September. Main XPRS 2006 page, Starfire page, Angelfire page, Wildfire page, Nike Dart page.
Aug. 25, 2006	Added some photos and videos of Angelfire flight #7 that took place on August 19 at the Tripoli Idaho Launch site near Fairfield Idaho.
Aug. 6, 2006	Added a link to RocketryPlanet to the Links page.
July 30, 2006	Created a page for the Desert Heat launch in Oregon that I attended on July 21-23.
July 3, 2006	Created a page for the Summer Skies launch in Oregon that I attended on June 16-18.
June 11, 2006	Added a lot of material from the FITS launch that I attended over Memorial Day weekend. Also added a page showing the new camera module for Starfire.
Feb. 3, 2006	Posted my launch schedule for 2006.
Dec. 4, 2005	Added an onboard video from the Wildfire flight at SupdRoc-10 on May 14, 2005.
Dec. 3, 2005	Added a new onboard video to the Starfire Video page from the flight at SpudRoc-10 in May. Also added three images from the camcorder on that flight to the Starfire photos page. Updated the Starfire videos page with the videos already seen on the Desert Heat, LDRS-24 and XPRS 2005 pages.
Nov. 30, 2005	Added two short video clips to Orange Crush page. They are very small file sizes for dial-up users.
Nov. 27, 2005	Added short video of Angelfire ejection charge ground testing.
Nov. 26, 2005	Added text to the page about the Angelfire GPS radio downlink system. Added links on the home page to the "Featured Topics". Added a spreadsheet and short video clip to the page about the Orange Crush loop at XPRS. This new material was contributed by Artie Lekstutis.
Nov. 20, 2005	Added text to the Angelfire finishing touches page. Also added more comments to the main Angelfire project page.
Nov. 19, 2005	Added text to the Angelfire fin fillet page, the Angelfire altimeters page, the Angelfire recovery components page and the Angelfire painting page.
Nov. 17, 2005	Created a page about Adrian Carbine's N2N two-stage project at XPRS with Adrian's commentary about his rocket. Linked to that page from the XPRS 2005 page.
Nov. 13, 2005	Updated the flight log page with all my flights from 2005 and added the year end summary.
Nov. 6, 2005	Created some new pages with photos of Angelfire construction. Many of these pages are still under construction and still need to have text added. All of the new pages are accessed from the Project Angelfire page. Construction pages are: booster, fin fillets, nosecone, altimeter bay, altimeter electronics, GPS electronics, recovery components, painting and decals, final finishing.
Nov. 5, 2005	Added more info to the page about the Orange Crush "loop" at XPRS 2005 including Greg Fannin's RockSim and G-wiz data files for that flight.
Oct. 31, 2005	Added a page about the Orange Crush "loop" at XPRS 2005.
Oct. 29, 2005	Added two more photos to the XPRS 2005 page. One is of Angelfire on chute. One is of the Orange Crush liftoff. Both photos by Rick Clapp. Also updated the Angelfire photo page with photos from flights #3 and #4. Also updated the Scorpion photo page with a photo from flight #29. It may be my best photo of a K670GG motor yet! Also added Scorpion flight #27 on a K800BB to that same page. Also added photos from Starfire flights 6 thru 9 to the Starfire page. Also added Wildfire "Sweet 16" photo from SpudRoc-10. Also added a photo of the 19th flight of my Nike Dart. Also added photos from Vulcan flight #20 to the Vulcan photos page.
Oct. 23, 2005	Added four videos to the XPRS 2005 page. Two are of the Starfire flight on an M2200 Skidmark motor. A third one is of the Angelfire liftoff on an M1939. The fourth one is the 360 degree loop flown by Greg Fannin's Orange Crush on an N1100 motor. Also added three photos to the LDRS24 page that were taken by Nadine Kinney.
Oct. 2, 2005	Added Angelfire flight data obtained from the ARTS recording altimeter.
Oct. 1, 2005	Created a new page with photos from XPRS 2005. More material from XPRS will probably be posted on this page in another week or so.
Aug. 27, 2005	Added a page of photos and videos from the LDRS-24 launch held in Canada on July 14-19, 2005.
Aug. 14, 2005	Added photos of Vulcan liftoff on an L700 and photos of the Scorpion liftoff on a K670 from the most recent Tripoli Idaho launch.
Aug. 7, 2005	Created page of photos and videos from the Desert Heat launch at Brothers Oregon held on July 29-31, 2005.
July 24, 2005	Added liftoff photo of Angelfire's first flight to the home page. Also added the Angelfire photos page.
July 05, 2005	Added construction completion photo of Angelfire to home page.
June 19, 2005	Finished the page of launch photos from the Summer Skies launch at Brothers Oregon held on June 11-12, 2005. There is a lot of material there! Including photos, videos, and slideshows. Enjoy! Also created a page of aerial photos taken at that same launch.
June 13, 2005	Started creating a page of launch photos from the Summer Skies launch at Brothers Oregon held on June 11-12, 2005.
May 15, 2005	Added photos of Cody Neal's L3 cert flight at the Tripoli Idaho SpudRoc-10 launch.
May 11, 2005	Fixed some broken links.
April 30, 2005	Added text to the Starfire antizipper band contruction page. Also added text to the Starfire antizipper straps page. (Slowly catching up and finishing up some of those old Starfire pages.)
April 23, 2005	Added more photos to the bottom of the Angelfire booster construction page. Corrected the calculations for altimeter static port sizing. Previously the equations were based on the diameter of a 1/4" hole per 100 cubic inches. New equations are now correctly based on the cross sectional area of a 1/4" diameter hole per 100 cubic inches. Added more text to the Starfire mirror hood construction page. Also added text to the Starfire altimeter bay construction page.
April 22, 2005	Updated Angelfire project page. Created construction pages for Angelfire booster section, nosecone and altimeter bay. Added photo of Nike Dart flight #17. Added photo and data plots for Vulcan flight #19. Updated flight log.
Mar. 19, 2005	Added photos of fin reinforcement strips on Angelfire.
Mar. 12, 2005	Updated Links page. Added links to WAC and Performance Hobbies.
Feb. 27, 2005	Added a few more construction photos of Angelfire booster section fin attachment. Updated Epoxy page with info about Hysol Epoxy.
Feb. 20, 2005	Added schematics for the current sensor circuit and the resistance measurement circuit in the launch controller.
Feb. 13, 2005	Added project Angelfire. Construction is in progress.
Jan. 26, 2005	Added text to the Starfire bulkhead construction photos.
Jan. 3, 2005	Added text to the Starfire coupler tube fiberglassing photos.
Jan. 2, 2005	Added text to the Starfire body tube fiberglassing photos.
Dec. 28, 2004	Added text to the Starfire fin slotting photos.
Dec. 27, 2004	Added text to the Starfire fin-can construction photos.
Dec. 23, 2004	Added text to the Starfire booster section construction photos.
Dec. 7, 2004	Added a couple of Wildfire photos from flight #15 at the launch on Nov 6, 2004.
Nov. 28, 2004	Added Pad Cam video of Vulcan flight #18 from July 17, 2004.
Nov. 27, 2004	Added four on-board videos from Wildfire flights during 2004.
Nov. 26, 2004	Added videos of Starfire Flight #1 at Spudroc-9 on May 1, 2004. Also added a couple of aerial view photos to the Starfire launch #1 photo group. Added video of Starfire ejection charge testing. Added on-board video from Starfire launch on Oct 24, 2004. Added two short pad cam videos from Scorpion launch #25 and #26..
Nov. 25, 2004	Added photo of Vulcan launch on L700BB from July 17, 2004. Updated launch schedule plans for 2005. Added a 2004 year end summary to the flight log page.
Nov. 24, 2004	Added photos from Starfire flight #5 on Oct 24, 2004. Also added photos of Scorpion Flight #25. Added Arcas photos. Added Nike Dart photos. Added Hybrid Dart photo from March 20, 2004.
Nov. 23, 2004	Added on-board video and ground videos of the Wildfire flight on an L1080BB near Fairfield Idaho on Aug 28, 2004. Also added the still photos from this flight. Also added photos of Wildfire flight #12 on the L1060GG. Also various changes to the home page. Also updated My Best Photos page with Wildfire on the L1080BB and Starfire on the M2200SK.
Nov. 14, 2004	Updated flight log.
Oct. 30, 2004	Added on-board video from Wildfire flight at XPRS 2004. Also updated my flight log.
Oct. 23, 2004	Added videos of Starfire flight at XPRS 2004.
Oct. 10, 2004	Created a new page with photos from XPRS 2004.
Sept. 3, 2004	Added two on-board videos from Starfire flights in June and July at Brothers Oregon. Also added two aerial photos from Starfire to the Starfire photos page.
Aug. 29, 2004	Added high res photo of Starfire on M2500GG to the "My Best Photos" page.
Aug. 28, 2004	Updated flight log.
Aug. 22, 2004	Reorganized Videos page. Broke it into several different pages because it was getting too big and too slow to load. New pages are Starfire Videos, Wildfire Videos, Vulcan Videos, Scorpion Videos, and Other Videos.
Aug. 9, 2004	Added ground video of Starfire launch #2.
Aug. 8, 2004	Added photos of Starfire from the launches at Brothers Oregon in June and July. Also updated my flight log. Flight log details are here.
May 25, 2004	Minor corrections here and there. Mostly typo's and broken links got fixed.
May 22, 2004	Added many more photos of Starfire construction. This is a work in progress. Most of the photos are in place but most of the text is not. Text, descriptions and commentary will be added soon.
May 15, 2004	Added first photos of Starfire! Added Starfire info to the home page. Also created the Starfire photos page and the Starfire construction page. More photos will be coming soon!
Jan. 24, 2004	Added a new link to the links page for the Idaho Rocketry web site.
Jan. 19, 2004	Updated Starfire design drawings. Several minor corrections to the drawings plus added a few specific part numbers. Also moved the 2003 year end summary to the flight log page and added info about Starfire to the home page.
Dec. 29, 2003	Added Scorpion Pad Cam video from the launch on April 19, 2003.
Dec. 7, 2003	Completed updates on the new TV transmitter page.
Dec. 5, 2003	Started updating the TV transmitter project page with information about the new version of transmitter and receiver that I am now using. Also deleted obsolete link to Precision G10 from the Links page.
Nov. 30, 2003	Added on-board video from Wildfire flight at XPRS 2003. Also added on-board and "pad cam" video from Wildfire launch on Nov 1, 2003 at the Tripoli Idaho site. Also added ground video, "pad cam" and on-board video of Wildfire flight on May 31. Also added "pad cam" video of Hybrid Dart launch on June 14, 2003.
Nov. 27, 2003	Added Starfire design drawings.
Nov. 18, 2003	Fixed a few typo's here and there.
Nov. 17, 2003	Deleted obsolete Rocketopia link and replaced it with MaxThrust link on the Links page.
Nov. 8, 2003	Added photo of "Blaster" on a K660 to "My Best Photos" page. Also added Vulcan flight #17 photos, Scorpion flight #22 photos, and Wildfire flight #9 photos. Also updated home page with a year end summary for 2003 and my launch schedule for 2004.
Nov. 6, 2003	Updated flight log. Also added another photo of Vulcan on a K1275R redline motor to "My Best Photos" page. This one from the launch on Nov. 1, 2003.
Oct 20, 2003	Added photos of Wildfire and Vulcan to My Best Photos page. These are liftoff shots from the Tripoli Idaho launch held on Oct 18, 2003.
Oct. 19, 2003	Updated flight log.
Oct. 12, 2003	Added a new page titled "My Best Photos" which is a collection of all my best photos in one place. High resolution versions are also available on that page.
Oct. 7, 2003	Added photo of Greg Fannin's Orange Crush at XPRS-2.
Oct. 6, 2003	Added photo of Scorpion on Green Gorilla motor at XPRS-2.
Aug. 29, 2003	Added photo of Greg Fannin's "Red Headed Step Child" to the page of Tripoli Idaho photos. Also added photos of Nike Dart, Scorpion and Vulcan. All of these from the Tripoli Idaho launch on Aug 23, 2003.
Aug. 24, 2003	Updated flight log.
Aug. 10, 2003	Added launch videos of Wildfire at Brothers Oregon on July 19,2003 flying on an M1315 motor.
Aug. 8, 2003	Added launch photo of Vulcan taken at the Fairfield Idaho launch site on July 26, 2003.
Aug. 5, 2003	Added on-board video from the Wildfire flight at Brothers Oregon on June 21, 2003.
Aug. 2, 2003	Added photo of Wildfire Flight #6 from the Brothers Oregon launch in July. Also put it on the home page. Also added photos of Scorpion on the AMW "Green Gorilla" motor. Added Hybrid Dart launch photo. Added a quite a few new and recent photos to my Tripoli Idaho Photos page.
July 29, 2003	Updated flight log.
July 10, 2003	Updated photo pages for Hybrid Dart, Scorpion, Vulcan and Nike Dart.
July 7, 2003	Added Wildfire launch videos from FITS 2003
July 6, 2003	Updated Wildfire launch photos.
July 5, 2003	Updated flight log.
July 2, 2003	Changed email address to vernk@vernk.com
June 16, 2003	Added three more photos to FITS 2003 page.
June 7, 2003	Completed the FITS 2003 page and updated my flight log.
June 1, 2003	Started adding photos from FITS 2003 launch.
April 21, 2003	Updated flight log with two new flights from last weekend.
April 13, 2003	Added another project page for a G-switch timer.
March 23, 2003	Added Delay Time Charts.
March 9, 2003	Added more information to a number of the Misc Info Pages.
Feb. 23, 2003	Reorganized image files into new subdirectories. Also added schematics and text to the launch controller page.
Feb. 17, 2003	Added photos to the Wildfire project page and to the parachutes page.
Feb. 15, 2003	Updated Misc Info page. Added Altimeters, Altitude Charts, Parachutes, and Ejection Charge pages.
Feb. 5, 2003	Added photos to Nike Dart project page.
Jan. 31, 2003	Added RockSim simulation plots to the project pages.
Jan. 27, 2003	Added photos to TV transmitter project page.
Jan. 24, 2003	Updated links page.
Jan. 21, 2003	Added more information to the transmitter page.
Jan. 17, 2003	Upsized most all of the photo thumbnails within the site. Also reformatted the links page.
Jan. 13, 2003	Added more photos to the TV transmitter project page.
Jan. 11, 2003	Reformatted many pages.
Jan. 7, 2003	Added photo of Wildfire launch to the home page.
Jan. 6, 2003	Added more text to the Wildfire and Vulcan photo pages. Also to the Wildfire project page.
Jan. 4, 2003	Much of my major overhaul has been completed. Added lots of new photos and new videos. However, there is still much left to do! It's coming soon.
Nov. 24, 2002	Started a major overhaul of the entire site.
Aug. 24, 2002	Updated and added various links to the links page.
Feb. 24, 2002	Added two videos, updated the links page and the home page.
Jan. 1, 2002	Initial web contents setup at vernk.net