Tim Larson, Steve Bloom, and Pat Floyd assembling the airframe
Steve Bloom and Pat Floyd joining the motor section to the drogue section
Kimberly Harms and Tim Larson joining the main section to the avionics bay while Jessica Larson looks on
Kent Newman, Marsha Botzer (Team philosopher), and Jim Morin watch the assembly.
The completed Community Space Program 7 airframe
Assembling the base of the ground support
The ground support equipment built for this project and to be used on a lot of the other large projects here in the Northwest. Total weight is over 300 pounds
Steve Bloom – a Boeing inspector during the day – using some of his inspector skills.
Chris Scott realizing that, yes, it is a lot of hard work
Pat and Kimberly trying to figure out how we are ever going to get this on the rail!
Moving the airframe to begin loading on the rail. Note the cool reflection on the nose from the great paint job
On the rail!
Beginning to go from horizontal to vertical. Yes it is indeed heavy! The pink pieces are protective wrapping between the airframe and the fixtures used to hold the airframe steady on the rail.
Still higher…
Almost there…
Vertical !
All 18.5 feet 125 pounds of Community 7
Pat Floyd seeing how well the tower will hold him and a 120 pound rocket
Placing the flag of the United States and the world colors on the top of the tower
To show some scale on just how high Pat had to climb
Most of the team. From left to right: Tim Larson, Jessica Larson, Chris Scott, Traci Scott (kneeling), Pat Floyd (on the rail), Kimberly Harms, Steve Bloom, Kent Newman