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Egg Lofting
Position
Name
Time
Egg
Parachutes
Delay
1
Dave Tranter
1 min 16.9 sec
OK
30 inch
3 sec
2
Dave Tranter
47.41 sec
OK
30 inch
3 sec
3
Phil Charlesworth
41.54 sec
OK
30 inch
5 sec
4
Andy Dingley
28.10 sec
OK
18 inch
3 sec
5
Dave Bishop
25.25 sec
OK
30 inch
16 inch
12 inch
5 sec
6
Dave Bishop
24.44 sec
OK
30 inch
3 sec
7
Adam Elameer
19.59 sec
OK
18 inch
3 sec
8
Dave Tranter
18.40 sec
OK
30 inch
3 sec
9
Andy Dingley
17.50 sec
OK
2 x 12 inch
3 sec
10
Adam Elameer

Disqualified


11
Dave Bishop

Disqualified


The competition was won by Dave Tranter. The club shelled out in a cracking good prize: the Estes Black Brant kit and a medal.

The picture shows a very eggcited Dave receiving his prize.







The results of the competition were:
Every year FOG lays down a technical challenge for its members to help to develop skills and innovation. The 2011 club challenge was Egg Lofting. Rockets could only use a single C impulse motor. This required a lot of eggsperience in building very light rockets.
Three lessons were learned for successful egglofting:
1. Keep it light. The top 3 places went to scratch-built rockets. Kits were less successful as they were heavier.
2. Egg lofting with small rockets requires low delays and really big chutes.
3. The parachute needs to be packed carefully so that it opens very quickly.