My Centuri Starfire, already discussed on this blog in mid-July, seen returning to earth after one of several fantastically stable and reliable fights at Allmend Frauenfeld, Switzerland, on April 26, 1986. It was a beautiful and only slightly windy day, and we flew our rockets next to the launch site chosen for a model rocket competition hosted on the same date by the Technorama science museum.
We conducted a total of 31 launches during the morning and afternoon, and without intending to do so at all, we ended up stealing the spotlight from the official competition. The competitors' rockets were required to be powered only by mini motors, while we flew anything from Estes B to Flight Systems E motors, including some rare D13-7 composite motors of eastern European manufacture - these were the days when the Iron Curtain still existed. Needless to say, we received a number of jealous glances from the organizers of the competition, as the spectators kept watching our flights rather than theirs. But such is life.
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