The Next Few Weeks

This coming Saturday, 29th May, we're puuting the car on display as part of the Rushden Power Fest, organised by Santa Pod Raceway. We're taking the opportunity to show our neighbours in the town waht has been built and engineered right here. Should be interesting...

On the 29th, we're off to Bruntingthorpe, a large active airstrip in Leicestershire, for a four-rocket running test. The runway is two miles long and very very wide, so it's a relatively safe environment for checking out handling and stopping. We'll be running bio-fuel rockets, not kerosene, as we really don't want all of that power for this test.

We have a few new team members, our fuelling supremo, David Rose can't make it, so we'll be going slow and steady to avoid any possible errors. The chillers are up and runnning. So, if it's a hot day, we should be able to keep the temperatures in the car well down into the safety zone.

Dave Burditt, from Datron Technology, is comiing up middle of next week, to install GPS and other data recording equipment. For the first time we'll be able to collect hard data on exactly what the car and rockets are doing in the real world.

Nerves are already starting to jangle... so slow and steady is the order of the day.