Sniper flights

[cgroves]

Woohoooo, no wonder I ran out of juice early on Sunday. Check out this power graph. 620 Watts peak :eek: I was expecting 400-450 so my timer was set a little long. Some videos from the cockpit to follow.

[cgroves]

Here is the right way, and the wrong way to launch an electric jet. Guess which is which ;). On the bad one the dolly jammed on the jet and didn't release. Once it flew to the end of the bungee... oh well, you'll see. (It survived and was flown later once I dug the batteries out of the nose):

[Tom Hastie]

Badlaunch - aka "How to turn your Super Sniper in to the worlds most expensive Permafrost Depth Gauge".

You're lucky this happened AFTER the ground thawed. That sheer ice 3 weeks ago would have been disasterous.