It works

It's been a long couple of months with some ups and some downs. The ups were when we got the frame up, got the arm together and today. The downs were when we couldn't lift the arm into place, when the hoist failed (funny video coming later) and plenty of others.
But today was worth it. We made two successful launches. The machine worked beautifully. With the bearings that we are using it is so silent. I really can't believe it. If nothing else, the silence is worth the extra cost for the bearings. We did have one problem that pretty much wrecked our pouch but I realized that we need a check list before we launch to ensure that no stupid little mistakes are made. We will be out at the test range sometime this week to do some more launches with new pouches. Just for S**** and giggles I emailed Dupont about getting some Kevlar. We'll see.