May 6th launch report from Roy

Roy's report on our flight activity from the May 6th ROCC Midland, NC outing is below. Sorry for the delayed posting, I wanted to get beyond the 20th launch and then forgot to come back and post it. My apologies all... dr

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Space-X fly-by

Prior to the docking the Dragon spacecraft is making a fly-by of the ISS. You can watch the feed here:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/dragon-iss-flyby/

A new day is dawning in low earth orbit!

dr

Launch - May 19 & 20th - Flee Market

Hopefully the weather allows us two great days of launching this coming weekend! Some points:

 1. The return of the duty rosters, so please sign up. The rosters will be up at the front tables. We need more people participating in LSO/RSO, and set up and take down of the equipment. So if you can be onsite Saturday morning at 9:30am to help set up, please email me at johnbergsmith@me.com. As always, thanks to everyone that helps.

2. Don't forget to pay the daily launch fee. Everyone has been doing a great job, so lets keep it up.

3. We will make sure to have a small trash can near the pads. Please try to get all of the used igniters, and other trash, thrown away if you can.

4. Ken will not be attending this launch weekend. So it's a great time to bring out any kits, or other rocketry stuff, you want to sell. Bring it out and work some trades or sales with you rocketry friends. We can do this without having to worry about impacting Ken's sales. We all have something to sell, right?

5. Don't forget about the theme for this weekend, Der Red Max & Goblin.

6. Nascar races on Friday and Saturday night, watch out for traffic.

Stay tuned for further updates as we get closer to the weekend.

Update on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 1:20AM by John Bergsmith

Everything is a go for this weekend. Ralph will not be cooking this weekend.

Theme for 5/19 & 5/20 - Der Red Max & Goblin Gathering

All sizes, and variations accepted! 

Theme for Sunday 5/6 - BerthaPalooza

Bring your Big, small, and all sizes in between Big Bertha's. Bertha type designs such as Big Betty, Ranger, and Brighton's all accepted.

Launch - Sunday, May 6th

This weekend we are planning for the launch on Sunday, May 6th. Ken couldn't make Saturday, but will be onsite for Sunday. 

However, I need to make sure that we will have enough people to not only fly, but to help set up and take down. So if you can help, and intend to fly this Sunday, please email me at johnbergsmith@me.com.

Set up time will be 9:30, take down will around 5 to 5:30pm.

Please let me know asap.

Thanks,

John

Sapce-X static fire to be webcast live

Thanks to my wife Jean finding this one, from Boing Boing. Space-X will webcast their live firing on Monday, 4/30/12 starting at 2:30 eastern. More info is HERE

dr

And the results are in...

NAR adviser Sandy Houston has crunched all the flight data on the April "dry run" contests. To read his detailed analysis, please, click the Read More link below... dr

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April post launch report from Roy

Gather round all and you shall hear a tale of struggle, heartbreak, more struggle and eventual triumph. Here then is the April launch report from our faithful recorder of statistics and decipher-er of penmanship, Roy Potter... Just click that little "Read More" link... dr

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Sunday the 22nd launch is canceled

Due to the weather forecasts for Sunday the flight operations for the 22nd of April have been scrubbed (which will, of course, means it will be a beautiful day!).

Our next scheduled launch will be the pick-up launch on the weekend of the 5th & 6th of May.