Bay Harbour: February 02, 2022
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Harvey<br />
“Thank God for farmers,<br />
Mike, he’s a farmer, the first<br />
thing he caught was the possum<br />
and threw it back up. I think<br />
most of us city dwellers would<br />
crap ourselves to be quite honest<br />
and wouldn’t go near it,” said<br />
Norris.<br />
With Harvey in hand, Smith<br />
was lifted back up by the team.<br />
Harvey was very thirsty but<br />
uninjured and keen to continue<br />
his possum hunt.<br />
“We got Harvey’s lead onto<br />
him but then he was real keen<br />
to get back in there so we had to<br />
hold him back pretty hard,” said<br />
Venrooy.<br />
After a shower and a big feed of<br />
biscuits Harvey collapsed on his<br />
bed for the night.<br />
Venrooy was very thankful for<br />
the team at the Governors <strong>Bay</strong><br />
brigade.<br />
“Everyone was so helpful, it<br />
was good teamwork, my friends<br />
were great too.”<br />
Governors <strong>Bay</strong> is the only<br />
brigade in the Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
basin that is trained for lines<br />
rescue and Norris said it went<br />
very well.<br />
TRAINED: The team from the Governors <strong>Bay</strong> Volunteer Fire<br />
Brigade.<br />
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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>2 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
NEWS 5<br />
Successful rocket<br />
launch but data lost<br />
THE ROCKET launch that had<br />
some Birdlings Flat residents<br />
concerned went ahead last Friday<br />
with no issues.<br />
Some residents were unaware<br />
that the rocket was launched<br />
at 11.45am from Kaitorete Spit<br />
beach.<br />
Safety measures were put<br />
in place by the UC Aerospace<br />
team and the rocket launched<br />
safely but due to missing data,<br />
the team cannot confirm whether<br />
they hit their record setting<br />
target.<br />
The aim was to exceed the<br />
current altitude record for a student-led<br />
rocket programme held<br />
by the University of Southern<br />
California, which reached an<br />
altitude of 104km.<br />
“It launched perfectly, out<br />
in the direction that it was<br />
meant to go, unfortunately we<br />
just lost that data so we can’t<br />
prove it,” said project leader Jack<br />
Davies.<br />
Davies said the launch looked<br />
good from the ground but they<br />
lost the telemetry link that was<br />
sending all the information from<br />
the rocket back to them.<br />
“We lost that link just after the<br />
first stage burn so we weren’t able<br />
to get all of the data we needed to<br />
LIFT-OFF: The UC Aerospace team’s record-attempting<br />
rocket launching from Birdlings Flat on Friday.<br />
figure out how high it went.”<br />
The team is currently taking<br />
all the data they do have from<br />
the ground to try and get a full<br />
picture of the performance and<br />
how high the rocket went. They<br />
hope to have another go within<br />
the year.<br />
“Everyone is pretty happy, they<br />
all thought it was quite cool.<br />
Everyone is really keen to do<br />
another one,” Davies said.<br />
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