River Day 01/21/2013

Really late post again this week (one week late actually), but we did indeed celebrate River Day this past week.  We had another full group at the river, plus one:  Ted, Jay, Tim, Pat, Kevin, Scott (yes Scott), and I (Mark) all made it down for a week of general noise making.  We had decent weather; around 40 degrees, overcast, and a little windy early on.  The river level had dropped from the previous week's flooding so there was an abundance of stuff to burn.  We of course took advantage of that.

Scott brought down a potato gun, a bag of potatoes, and various propellants.  We never got one all the way across the river, but after a shaky start we did have some long distance shots.

We also tried again to build a home-made rocket engine (or two).  We tried a different fuel so we wouldn't have to rely on mixing.  Only one of them actually got off the ground, but all of them resulted in a nice little bang.  I do think we're on the right path and need to do a little more experimenting, without all the other stuff going on.

Instead of tossing the aerosol cans into the trash for disposal, we properly recycled our spent (or mostly spent) cans the best way we know how:  in the fire.  I'm pretty sure they put those heat warnings on those cans for a reason.


Just a couple of photos for this week, but I also have a video that I'll add - once I figure out how to rotate the video to display correctly.  Kinda hard turning a 19" monitor every time you want to view it.