Rocket Information

Vehicle ID:	113
Flights:	9
Model:	LED Boy
Manufacturer:	Scratchbuilt
Recovery:	Parachute
Status:	Operational

Comments

This rocket is build like an Estes Fat Boy but has nine superbright LEDs. Each fin has a yellow LED on the leading edge pointed toward the body, a red LED at the far tip of the trailing edge of the fin pointed down at about a 45-degree angle, and a green LED mounted parallel to the body at the root of the fin.

History

New nose cone added after flight #4.

Added rail buttons after flight #7.

Flight Log

Flight	Date	Motor	Launch Site	Comments
1	2002/04/06	F39-6T	SLRA, Elsberry, MO	Payload: Mk-I RLB Night launch. Beautiful flight. Nice strobe effect as it spun and drifted overhead. I saw the entire flight. A tracking transmitter was also on-board, just in case the lighting failed.
2	2002/04/13	D12-3	Benesh farm	Weathercocked.
3	2002/08/03	F24-7W	Tripoli Nebraska, Pickrell, NE	Shot off to the east, probably due to rod whip. Gene Nowaczyk (TRA 5430) helped search but we didn't find it. Kevin Trojanowski (TRA 8103) found it about a quarter mile farther than we had searched -- about 25 feet from a pond.
4	2002/10/26	E15-7W	Zeilmann Field, Reading, KS	Weathercocked quite a bit. The nose cone came off at ejection and was lost.
5	2003/04/26	D12-5	Zeilmann Field, Reading, KS
6	2003/06/14	E28-7T	Tripoli Nebraska, Pickrell, NE	Payload: Mk-II RLB. Some rod whip.
7	2004/06/19	D12-5	Tripoli Nebraska, Pickrell, NE	Located by someone else.
8	2010/10/15	C11-3	Shawnee Mission Park, west site	Noticed one red LED was knocked out of place
9	2010/10/15	D12-3	Shawnee Mission Park, west site	The launch rail helps but it still twists a bit going up, probably due to the off-center mass.