Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 7:00PM Sorry about the late notice, but weather is what weather does.
TB/dr
Friday, February 20, 2026 at 8:52PM
Monday, February 16, 2026 at 9:12PM Hey all... Looking at the weather the last couple days it's not looking great for the weekend. A few days ago Saturday was not bad but rain is encroaching quickly. We'll need to keep a weather eye out.
If we do fly, Ken is not going to be with us, he'll be in Maryland. He called and asked if anyone needed anything from him, please give him a call at (202) 723-8257 and work out payment. I can meet him Thursday evening and pick stuff up and bring it to the field.
That said, if you have things you'd like to sell this would be a perfect weekend to sell them off if we do end up flying.
Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12:25PM Well, unless you're living under a rock the weather forecast since a week ago has changed significantly. The Governor has declared a statewide state of emergency and is advising everyone to hunker down and stay put.
Obviously we will NOT be flying this weekend.
Stay tuned, we'll see what happens and fly when we can.
Most importantly... Stay safe, stay home, and watch out when you're shoveling walkways and steps that you don't break an arm or something.
Take care everyone.
dr
Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 10:16PM Sorry about the late post, but we've been watching the forecasts carefully yesterday and today. (all week TBH) We're between a rock and a hard place with the various weather forecasts.
Saturday is supposed to be fairly warm, but that's because there's a front moving through that's carrying cold weather behind it for Sunday. The winds forecasts are between 15 and 20 MPH most of Saturday depending if you believe Wunderground, Windy.com or Accuweather. They're all in agreement on on thing though, that it's headed straight toward Mr. Simpson's place. Sunday is supposed to be a high of 40-42 degrees and 10 or so MPH going in the opposite direction. On top of that, Sundays have been really low attendance, last month we had 4 folks for Sunday.
Next Saturday is looking like reasonably warm, light winds and little chance of rain.
Based on all this we're going to delay a week to the 24th and hope for getting some better luck on the forecasts.
Thursday, December 25, 2025 at 1:46PM (SFX... Teletypes chuncka chuncka away in the background. An occasional DINGDINGDING is heard as they announce important happenings coming in over the wire...) Good morning Mr. and Mrs. ROCC-eteers and all the ships at sea... Our intrepid Roy Potter has assembled his dispatch from the Midland goings-on last weekend, and you can read all about it by just tapping that "read more" link below... chuncka chuncka didididahh didididahh didididahh - TB/dr
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 9:49PM The weather is looking great for this weekend, the 20th & 21st. Highs in the mid 50s on Saturday, mid 60s on Sunday. We'll set up at 10, fly by 11. Pads will close at 4:30 so we can batten down for the night. Sunday we'll close out at 4 so we can pack up in daylight.
There's at least one L1 on Saturday that I know of. Also I expect the CAP section back with a few more flights. Ken should be with us both days I believe, if you need something special please reach out to him, there's a link on the website under the "LINKS" list, on the right hand side of the site.
See you at the field!
TB/dr
Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 2:02PM Thanks for all the folks that came out and flew, or just watched (I think there were a lot of parents for the 2 USLI Teams... GO LRU Aerobears and the UNC Rocketeers!) out to see what their kids were up to, and perhaps we had some folks from our Imaginon outreach day. Roy has gone through all the launch cards and given us the next installment of his Launch Report from 11-23-25's launch day. And what a beautiful day it was. Hit the "Read More" link to read the whole thing. DR/tb
Monday, November 24, 2025 at 2:09PM Just a quick thanks to all who came out and flew over Sunday, it was an amazing weather day and we had a great crowd, UNCC & Lenoir-Rhine USLI teams came and flew their prototypes, we had the Civil Air Patrol out, and a bunch of folks we hadn't seen in a while.
Second, I'm a patrion member of BPS Space & Jo Barnard's work. He's gone the extra mile to run the numbers on every conceivable prep method for bonding 2 pieces of fiberglass and the results are somewhat surprising to me, but the ultimate source for the final solution comes from an unimpeachable source. Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/YA1ME6kN2gI
See ya in December!
dr/TB
Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 2:41PM Please note: Due to the fickle changing weather/winds forecast & lack of rain we are going to NOT LAUNCH on Saturday. Sunday the 23rd is a GO however.
As you all know we've been in and out of burning bans for the last month or so. We've been watching the weather all week, on Sunday it was going to be beautiful, then by Tuesday eve it was looking like thunderstorms and a decent chance of rain on Friday evening and into Saturday, now it's supposed to be clear but quite windy on Saturday with essentially no chance of rain. Ralph is out at the farm today (Thursday) mowing and the thatch and grass is dry as a tinder out there, so that, combined with the higher winds on Saturday, we feel it would be safer to wait until Sunday where the wind is supposed to be down around 5 MPH and would offer us a much better chance of containment should we have a CATO and start a fire. If we'd be sure about getting some rain on Friday it would make it a lot safer dealing with the high winds.
So, just to recap... NO flights on Saturday 11/22, YES to flying on Sunday the 23rd.