SLD2024-02 – On Friday 31-05-2024, we had the 10th anniversary of the Intimidator 5 rocket and its 9th flight. It is not often that we have a 10 year old rocket still in flyable condition. Surely she has her battle scars, the paint job isn’t as shiny as it once was but she still flies
After a great boost, the BOOSTAR-TWO / GIGA IV two stage rocket flew to a disappointing 8+km as the 2nd stage motor experienced a catastrophic anomaly upon delayed ignition at the LRE summer 2021. Please click here for the full launch report.
The BoostarTwo / GIGA IV rocket finally flew after 1 year in storage but suffered a CATO of the sustainer motor. Stay tuned to see the full report of this flight.
On Friday 28-05-2021, LD and myself set out to launch the Intimidator 5 on what I think is it’s 8th flight but frankly lost count a bit and not all flights were properly documented on this site. Weather was mostly sunny, little to no wind from the N-NE direction. Launch rail was set at 32°
The BOOSTAR-ONE / GIGA III experimental two stage rocket sucesfully flew to +15km and was safely recovered at the LRE spring 2019 event. Please click here for the full launch report.
The amateur, experimental, two stage, BOOSTAR-ONE / GIGA III rocket reached near space and was safely receoved at the LRE 2019 spring launch hosted by the kind people of the PTR. Please stay tuned for more info.
We had a blast! GIGA II flew to 8.792m and approx Mach 1.7. Click here for for further details.
“We had a bad day”. This pretty much sums up our launch day at LRE 2017. First LD’s CHIRON 3 rocket overpressurized in a spectacular way, taking out the upper 2/3rd of the launch rail. A makeshift launch rail was made and the GIGA was launched from the remaining 2,5m lower section. The GIGA rocket suffered the
Another launch together with the Navro and DARE. Conditions were fine with a picture perfect launch. The Intimidator 5 was flown on a KNDX 2% RIO reload, together with an updated 440 Mhz – 1W Talky GPS tracker by LD and an 5.8GHz – 600mW VTx with ImmersionRC antenna tracker ground station. Please click here to read the
May 20th, was the first launch day of the 2016 season. Instead of all Dutch rocket organizations having their own separate launch days at the OTCVust, this time it was a combined launch campaign from the DARE, NAVRO, NERO & T-Minus with 12 rockets and 1 static motor test. We successfully flew the Intimidator 5 for the