The Things You See

You see lots of interesting things as you stroll round the launch grid.
On the last practice day The LAK17b was llined up just behind us.
This was something interesting I had only a few weeks ago seen on the web.


We spoke to the pilot. The motor is very small and it fills the nose cone and to only a few centimetres behind. He pilot was eager to talk about it and showed us how it worked and how easy and quick it was to use.
The full instalation was about 40kg in cluding the batteries which was 25kg of the unit's payload.
He fired it up for a little demo so we could see it in action.
He stated the that it was a 4kw motor that returned 2m/s climb rate.

The whole installation was pretty impressive. In the cocpit there was only a small box about the size of a Volkslogger and very simple to use.

Yep the things you see at a big comp!

Mark