Featherweight Altimeters is a small business dedicated to providing the world's best altimeters designed for model rocketry.

Its founder is Adrian Adamson.  When not spending time with his family, enjoying the outdoors, designing altimeters, flying rockets, or dreaming about creating the world's most efficient commuter vehicle (www.celmoto.com), Adrian can be found at his regular job, attempting to bring a degree of efficiency to the design of NASA's Orion spacecraft.  Adrian is a mechanical engineer by education, but started playing with accelerometers in the winter of 2006 to teach himself about electronic design.  By the summer of 2007, he created the Parrot altimeter to collect lots of interesting data from little rockets.  Although the first Parrot was a recording-only device, other versions followed, including an apogee-deploy version which was the first production model in September 2007, and the 3-output, Parrot Version 2 that started shipping in June of 2008.  In the meantime, Adrian has attempted club altitude records in A, B, and E motor classes, and Tripoli altitude records in F, G, H, I, and multi-stage L classes (pictured at left, from BALLS 2009).  His interest in high performance rocketry has been a key motivator that has driven the Featherweight altimeter designs to be smaller, more accurate, provide more data, and be compatible with smaller batteries.