Captain Jebediah takes one more flight – for science! He’s headed out to the Mountains to attempt to transmit science data back to the KSC
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C7 engineers say they're satisfied w/ data, but Wernher has gotten approval for one last flight to collect some additional science readings
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Jeb is out for his walk around check of the aircraft, which has been refueled. You can see both cams now. pics to be pulled after the flight
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Flight has given Jeb his taxi & takeoff clearance, he will fly out west to the mountains and attempt to transmit back science data gathered
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Jeb is on his way after a nominal departure from the turf alongside Rwy27, will be out over the mountains after about 20min of flight time
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Flight has recalled Jeb after xmit testing failed. Engine alternator could not keep up with power demands for the antenna & no batts onboard
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back in the pattern for landing, Jeb will once again shoot the Rwy27 approach over water & land on first attempt if all goes well. Stay dry!
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well that was scary! Jeb touched down at the very start of the dirt & it ramped him back up into the air. Managed to keep nose up & land ok
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Civvie flights are officially concluded for 2016. Not enough daylight to install batts & head back out. Jeb & Val did great, 716km flown!
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a big thank you to the Maritime Service for their support today. We look forward to extending our partnership in 2017 with rocket recoveries
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ooops! We forgot to pull images from the outboard cameras for the Civvie. Bob & Bill say they will get to that tomorrow after 2nd sunset
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Bob & Bill have looked thru the footage from the Civvie outboard cams and have a few sweet screenshots to share - imgur.com/a/nDoFe
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C7 engineers a bit miffed to find Jeb had flaps notched to 1 for half his flight, didn't say anything when he realized & set to 0 @ +27:43
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Jeb has apologized, said he felt embarrassed by the mistake, feels even dumber now for not realizing TDU would reveal his error anyways
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inventory audit also complete, 21 Mini Battery Packs went unused for one reason or another. Surplus is earmarked for '17 Civvie science xmit
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that's it! We're out! Everyone enjoy the holiday, see you next year! Before you go though, here's a 2017 preview: bit.ly/OpsSummary12-1…
