NAR Contest UPDATE

Due to the predicted weather tomorrow I have grave doubts about being able to fly any of the duration events for our contest, at least for Saturday. Ralph and I have spoken and would like to suggest that we postpone at least untill Sunday. I'd like a chance to converse with Brad and some of the participants to get a concensus but I'd tend to go with at least Sunday, if not the November 18th/19th launch window. I'll have flight cards and stop watches available if any one wants to fly tomorrow but I think Sunday would be a lot more condusive to it. Doc R.

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Vendor Update for Launches this weekend

Everyone: As of Thursday night the Vendor schedule is as follows: Ken Allen - Performance Hobbies - Saturday only Brent Johnson - Hobbytown USA - Sunday only Tim Durbin - New Giant Leap Rocketry Rep - both days. Tim, who joined our club last year has taken on the task to be a rep for Giant Leap Rocketry, he got his L1 at the Freedom launch with his first HP rocket and is excited about flying and selling, good luck to him, he has more time than me. He has received his first shipment of stuff and may have more tomorrow. Contact him at tdurbinglr@starband.net for your Giant Leap stuff. Marcus Harman, a long time member of ROCC will have some of his old stuff for sale, I think he will be out Sunday, he is scaling back for his final year of college. Maybe you can help him out too. >From Marcus's email: Also, I'm bringing a ton of my old rocket stuff including a PET2 Timer, a Maxi Honest John, and a bunch of parts to sell. Chris Hamilton gave me a bunch of his stuff to sell, too...including some RMS 18mm loads. It will be a "you name the price" kind of deal. I just want to get rid of it. Hope you all can support all our vendors this weekend. It is great to have them but we need to support them as well. It would be a good time to stock up on goods. Thanks, Ralph

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Launch this weekend Oct. 28/29

Everyone: A big two day event is planned. Saturday Oct 28th 12:00-7:00 Sunday Oct 29th 8:00-6:00 NAR contest this weekend. Random Duration - Weighting Factor 10 Super-Roc Duration "A" Motors - Weighting Factor 13 Egg Loft Duration "C" Motors - Weighting Factor 16 We will provide a $10.00 gift card from HOBBYTOWN,USA for each contest and NAR ribbons and points will be awarded. Update: Ken Allen will be here Saturday, not Sunday.

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Two Launches This Month

Everyone: We will have two launches this month. The corn and Milo are cleared and we are go for launch. First - Oct 15th (this Sunday) 12:00-7:00 - One day event Tune up launch, equipment checkout, NAR Contest preactice rounds. One note - No Porta John - still working on getting this done. Second - Oct 28th and 29th 12:00-7:00 both days. - Two day event. Ken Allen from Performance hobbies will be here on the 29th. NAR contest this weekend. Camping is allowed, if you want to. Random Duration - Weighting Factor 10 Super-Roc Duration "A" Motors - Weighting Factor 13 Egg Loft Duration "C" Motors - Weighting Factor 16 We will provide a $10.00 gift card from HOBBYTOWN,USA for each contest and NAR ribbons and points will be awarded. Doc already has some info on the website with pictures of plans soon, you can look them up in the NAR Contest book on the NAR website WWW.NAR.ORG John - Go ahead and secure the waivers for both weekends and let me know ASAP. Plus - Also see the NAR and TRIPOLI websites as there is an important announcement from HQ. It requires a letter writing campaign that is due by Nov 9th. More details to follow. Thanks, Ralph Roberts ROCC Prez

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Cool Photos

I ran across a photo on the Make Magazine (something a lot of you would probably enjoy, makes a great gift) website that sent me over to a photoblog on Flickr. These photos are posted by a fellow named Erik Charlton, a rocketeer out west. He's got some great pix, truly insirational. Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikcharlton/ Hope it inspires all of you for the upcoming launch at the end of the month!

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October "Monster Mash-up" for Halloween

Okay, how many of you remember "Creature Feature"? Maybe it wasn't called that in your home town, on that little UHF station that also played roller derby and mid-atlantic 'rasslin, but I'll bet you that you had something like it... bad special effects and all! OOOHHHHOOOO, SSSCCAAARRRRYYYY! What we're talking about is a CONTEST WEEKEND! Read On......

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Brad Shea Completed his Level 1

Brad Shea sends this report on his successful Level 1 attempt: I got my level 1 on July 2nd 2006 at SCIPower in Orangeburg SC. There are some pictures from the launch after the jump.

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Build session Meeting 8/26 @ 12:00 Noon

Everyone: Our August meeting and building session will be at Doc Russells' office/warehouse located at 645 Pressley Road, suite G. This is off South Tryon st. just north of the Woodlawn Rd./Billy Graham intersection. If you head up Pressley rd. from South Tryon, you'll pass over I-77, then there will be a sharp rt. hand bend in the road. At the bend, on the left, there is a sign for Pressley Park. We're in the middle of the second long building in the park. Here's a link to a map/photo that'll help. We will start at 12:00pm with "meet and greet" and setup of the swap meet, with the first build session at 12:30pm. Official ROCC Meeting at 1:00pm. With more Build sessions after. Based on the interest of the attendees, we will adapt our build sessions from there. Noted build sessions will include making tubes and nose cones, contest models, altimeter bays, parachutes. I would encourage all to attend, as we can discuss items in a more controlled environment than at a launch. Any questions, call or email Ralph Roberts roccprez@bellsouth.net or 704-560-0147. Thanks, Ralph Roberts ROCC Prez

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Launch Update

Everyone: I have had better response to scheduling a build session/meeting to next weekend. So lets plan on the event at Doc's warehouse (Doc will provide a map and directions) next Saturday. I am thinking from 12:00-3:00, will nail down times in the next post. There will be no activities this weekend Aug 19th and 20th. Thanks, Ralph Roberts ROCC Prez

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TRA/NAR vs ATF update

Everyone: There was a hearing this week to see if the ATF is complying with the courts to get their testing done to prove that APCP should reside on the explosive list. They did comply and have had the Air Force Labs conduct these test. Unfortunately it will take them time to compile the results so that means another delay. A new hearing is scheduled for Oct. So, until then we are still under the same restrictions, nothing has changed. Check out the TRA and NAR sites for the Joint Statement. Note, Bob Schoner (Former ROCC prefect) was at the hearing representing TRA. You the man Bob! Thanks, Ralph Roberts ROCC President and Prefect.

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