Curt von Delius flying his state of the art JMAX has again set a new TRA certified single stage J Class Altitude Record of 23,735' AGL, eclipsing his previous record of 19,758' by a full 20% or 3977'.
The flight was made at AeroPac's Aeronaut launch on August 3rd, 2012 in the Blackrock Desert.
Later that day with his ultra lightweight KMAX, von Delius set a new TRA certified Single Stage K altitude record of 31,643' AGL beating the existing record by better than 8%, proving that a K class rocket can fly over 30,000' feet.
JMAX- This is his third attempt with the new design powered by an Aerotech J510W. "It all came together for this flight, perfect surface and winds aloft and a very straight boost". "It's great to have finally broken 20,000' feet with a J Class rocket, heck, nearly 24,000'!" von Delius said. The J510W burns for 2.37 seconds accelerating the JMAX to Mach 2.7 or just over 2000 miles per hour. One veteran spectator commented "That rocket was honking out of the pad".