Kicking Up Dirt

"...20 ft. up into the air… She has a nice plume to height ratio. =)

Amazingly, my little L1 bird popped off the pad and flew straight on a J350 – a motor so long it pushes up against the nose cone. I put an extra pound of weight in the nose cone to make it stable in the computer simulation (pulling over 40 G's to 840 MPH according to RockSIm)..."

By : Steve Jurvetson