Well, Al Gore is becoming a religious icon. Criss-crossing the country, doing more to destroy the ozone layer than he is doing to save it, Al is becoming a “televangelist for the First Church of the Warming Globe” according to Wesley Pruden.
I wrote about this a long time ago. The eco-nuts believe that we need to go back 100 years (or more) to a “more pristine time,” not realizing that we were polluting more back then than we are today. Back when houses were heated with coal, no emissions controls on the newfangled automobile, not to mention the toxic waste dumps of horse manure that was shoveled off the streets and dumped just outside of town.
Then you consider the 80% mortality rate in children due to diseases like chickenpox, women regularly dying in childbirth because of unsterile conditions, and so on, and so on, and so on.
The eco-nuts do not realize what kind of world they are in. There is no turning back the clock to go back to that “magical age” unless we are nuked back to it. Then we’ll see just how “magical” that time really is.

I emailed the article for Extreme Rocketry yesterday, and the pictures also arrived yesterday. Now all I have to do is wait for the publication process to do its thing. As soon as the article is published, I’ll let you know where you can get the magazine.
This will not be my first article for them (I wrote an article about procedures several years back) but this is my first launch report. As with all things, I feel I could have done more. I could have made more of my pictures come out (about half of the first roll came out badly) I could have been more diligent about recording who’s rocket was who’s. But, with all things, there is a learning curve. If I do another report next year, then I will do these things and make it a better report. I should also have a better camera than my old Pentax K1000 (It was new technology in 1990 when I bought it, everything is manual on it) like an 8+MP digital SLR camera.