| 6/27/2001 | Manned flight | By John Pretto |
Well, it appears another guy will beat the "Rocket Guy" in a civilian-based, manned rocket launch. I do NOT approve of these projects and believe they may negatively affect our sport. If one or both of these projects fail, the press will spin a negative view of our sport which may have egregious repercussions.
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| 6/11/2001 | ROC STOCK XIII | By John Pretto |
“I’m going to huff and puff and blow your rocket launch down.”
And, that’s exactly what happened at ROC Stock XIII.
| 6/10/2001 | FoxTrot Cartoon | By Bill Amend |
| 6/3/2001 | Chuck's Level III Attempt | By John Pretto |
Well, there are good launches and bad. We finally had a bad one. This was to be the weekend Chuck was attempting his Level III Certification flight. Chuck had built a beefed-up RDS North Star for his Level III rocket figuring that it would cost less and is a proven design to build upon. As I arrived at Chuck's home in San Diego late Friday, he was applying the final coat of paint. (No matter how much preparation you do, there are always things that need to be done the night before the launch (You'll find this out when you do your certification flights!) Chuck walked me through the details of the rocket: deployment, motor, etc. Every thing looked rock-solid. We didn't need to rush out to Ocotillo in the morning because the rocket was scheduled to fly on Sunday morning. Therefore, we took our time to make sure everything was right...
| 5/25/2001 | "Search for D'Artangan" II | By John Pretto |
The searched continued...
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5/20/2001
"The Search for D'Artangan"
Two weeks prior at the Delamar launch, the Gates Brothers launched D'Artangan on four K250's. Two on the ground and two air started. It went out of sight (no pun intended.) I decided to load up the kids and trek out to see if I could find it.
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5/20/2001
Dirk Gates posted the onboard footage of Athos II. You have to see this.
LINK HERE AND SELECT ATHOS II FIRST FLIGHT, ONBOARD VIDEO.
5/16/2001
More pics of Delamar from Christine Rial from Tripoli Pittsburg. Nice work Christine!
LINK HERE
5/13/2001
Delamar 2001
May 12 and 13th
Sponsored by Tripoli Vegas
Attendance: approx. 150
Waiver:100,000ft
I’ve never been to
Delamar, however, I knew its approximate location. I knew it was somewhere
close to the mystical area 51. One of my coworker’s parents lives in Alamo,
which is the closest town to the Delamar Dry Lake. The Delamar Dry Lake is
about 100 miles North East of Vegas and I seemed to make it there in about and
hour and a half both days. The thing that slows you down is the 14 miles of
dirt road off of the highway. My first excursion through the Delamar desert was
a surprise as I crested a hill and saw the dry lake! It looked like a pearl in
the middle of the desert! Cool, I said out loud and woke my son and his friend.
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5/2/2001
Pretto.com / Vidroc.com Hacked!!
Damn, I've had this server running
for about three years and never had
a problem. We received a security
bulletin from Microsoft about a buffer
over run problem with their IP priting
protocol. Send some bytes to the stack
and bam, full control of the box. We reinstalled
the OS and are starting over again. We'll see
how long it last.
4/18/2001
Welcome to the new Pretto Bros. Rocketry Site!
This will be the repository for All of our projects.
Vidroc.com was a huge success. Link here to see the
site. www.vidroc.com. Vidroc was the First,
Live webcast, from an amateur rocket! It was funny because I had several people
tell me the NASA stole my idea because they did a webcast from a Delta rocket
two weeks after Vidroc flew.
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