Thomas "Tweeks" Weeks's Page

AKA: Tweeks

Location: Blacksburg, VA

Certification Level: L3 / TRA

Club Memberships: TRA,NRVR.ORG

Favorite Rockets: 5.5" Black Brant, Talon3, Mad Cow Bomarc, Nike-X, any scale military rockets

Biography:

• Flying models since the 80s.
• Discovered MP/HP in the 90s in San Antonio (thanks to SARS and Art Applewhite for all the HP help).
• Moved to Blacksburg VA (with Rackspace) in 2011 and worked to start the regional HP rocket group NRVR.ORG. 
• Into sticking DIY electronics in HP rockets (arduino, ham, GPS, etc).
• Big embedded Linux geek
• TRA#11056 L3

Favorite Quote:

NRV Rocketry... Just some Rocket Guys who want to fly...

Personal Home Page: http://theweeks.org/rockets/

Club Home Page: http://nrvr.org/

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/ThomasW.Weeks

RocketReviews.com Pages:

• Rocket Gallery
• Flight Log
• Flight Statistics

2014-06-28

Talon-3

Flight

This was my L2 flight. Did it dual deploy. High altitude for this small field. CG was shifted forward as I just added an extra 6 inches of blue tube to repair from my prior launch (bad motor eject timing). This time went 100% altimeter based drogue and main deploy using my accelerometer based GWiz ... [More]