Upcoming Launch Schedule

ROCC 2024-2025 Launch Schedule:

NO launch in May due to the wheat. We hope to fly in June. 

 

 All launches are at the Midland, NC site unless otherwise stated.*

Here are some other launch opportunities in our area:

ICBM & ROSCO, better known as Rocketry South Carolina, flies near Dalzelle, SC., Just NE of Shaw AFB.  More information can be gotten at their site HERE

The Saturn Rocketry Club in Hendersonville is currently switching their launch field. As soon as we know where they land we will post it. Their FB site is HERE

NC Rocketry flies at Bayboro, NC in the northeast part of the state, information is HERE

 Set-up starts at about 9:30, launches commence about 10:30. Field closes about 60 min. before local dusk so we can clean up. Watch the site front page for specifics. Also visit us on FaceBook. You can also check for the FAA NOTAM at https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html#/ and using KCLT (Charlotte) as the location. This will give you the starting and ending times for HP flights. 

* If field is available due to crops, etc.

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Friday
Mar212008

Launch Report March 16th 2008

Welcome all you Rocket Jockeys and Jockettes.
Post Rocket Launch, Part 2 for March, Sunday the 16th.
After the bedlam Saturday, and a much-enjoyed bedlam it was, Sunday was a quiet, casual easy going, lazy kind of launch day. When you got something prepped, bring it up and lets fly it.
We expected a smaller crowd. It was originally forecasted to be windy, and we got just those who couldn�t come out Saturday or those who wanted a second chance to get some of their own flights up after working launch control and assisting the scouts all day Saturday.
Charlie had his TARC stuff out also, and Ken from Performance Hobbies was there and did some business. He plans to come out next weekend also on the 22nd.
The weather was nice overall, sunny, clear skys comfortable temperatures, just a little breezy. First thing in the morning during setup, it was almost calm and then the winds picked up from a light breeze to quick gusts and periodic long winds. It was forecasted to die down as the day progressed so we flew a lot of small to medium stuff, small chutes and streamers. But that didn�t guarantee that nothing would blow downwind very far.
Over all we had 20 fliers on hand and we put up 63 flights total for the day. Not too shabby.
Lost and Found = Steve B, I think Ralph found one of your old rockets while out assisting another. Orange body (rotted away) black nose cone (good), Blue fins, small yellow nylon chute (remarkable good condition) black shock cord (good) anchored to a baffle system atop the engine mount. Disposable engine.
Ralph Roberts flew a naked �Patriot� in a LP drag race with someone and had started to prep �Fear Factor� to burn a �Skidmore� engine but pulled it when the evening calm did not arrive.
Bob Bernatchez, who we like to kid as being the one who has been flying longer than anyone, flew his scale �Gemini Titan II�, a �Patriot� his scale �Lil Joe II�, a Scale �Mercury Atlas� and a very small scaled �Matra Super 530 D� French missile all on LP and his NCR (North Coast Rocketry for all you young fliers) �Orbit� on MP. Bob likes making scale replicas.
Doug Knight without his TARC team came out to just play and was first to launch and first to make a tree landing. Twice. That�s what Steve B was well known for. His �Rascal� and then the �Seeker� both made it to the trees on LP. The Rascal was thought recoverable at the end of the day. He flew a �Eliminator� in a drag race on MP, a extended LOC �Aura� on MP, then the �Dad�s Rocket� on MP with a different altimeter control system that timed from the apogee deployment. His �Callistro� went up MP and a huge streamer that had a
really looong delay that popped just a few yards above the ground and was recovered without damage. The ground was really soft which saved a lot of us.
Roy Potter, I kept it simple with the small �Red Pup� (Bull Pup) with a horseshoe streamer on LP a few times, the extended Big Daddy �Stars and Stripes� on MP and another extended Big Daddy called �White Dwarf� on MP a few times. Had a few long walks, but nothing in the trees.
Mike O�Hara, the new guy, be afraid, be very afraid Mike, spent a portion of the day prepping for a NAR Level 1 certification flight. The rest of the time he flew a Estes �Executioner� on MP once that tangled in the chute so it didn�t go far with no damage on the soft ground, and then again with a new chute that was too good as it drifted past the tree line to the right of the bridge. A number of us saw where it should have come down, but none of us could find it. He made up for that by making his Level 1 flight successfully on HP
with a PML �Intruder�. Congrats, Mike.
Keegan B. flew a �X-Caliber� on a MP redline and the �Gold Rush� in a LP Drag Race.
Brandon Jackson flew the �Aldebaran� on HP, the �Scrapper� on MP and a HV �Arcas� on a MP Blue thunder. All great flights.
Tori Jackson flew a �Baby Bertha�, a red �Alpha� and a �Patriot� in a LP drag race with Ralph I think.
Curtis Jackson flew his �Green Slime� (mean machine) on LP, and dude, get some rail buttons. It makes that hugely long monster so much stable than a whipping wire rod. Yesterday a guy flew a mean machine with buttons that was so stable without the rod bending under the length of the rocket. He also flew a �Big Bertha� on LP.
Charlie Ogino just came out to play, no TARC pressure to get in the way. He did fly his �TARC 3� backup rocket a few times on MP just to insure that it could work if needed. Flew a small LP tubular finned rocket called the �Revolver�, he drag raced someone with the �Mach 1.27� on MP and for the last flight of the day a drag race with Doug Knight, Mustang VS Mustang with exact MP engines called the �Doug Crusher�. He technically won the race; Doug was a No Fire, which was good as Charlies Mustang just disappeared. It went straight up and had a 4-inch by 4 foot red streamer, but no sight was seen of it. Bummer man.
Guy Ogino got in on it all with a flight called �Gold Aspire� on LP.
Tommy Propst flew a standard Estes �Fat Boy� (not extended), a silvery and sparkly �Rainbow Ninja� and a Estes �Phoenix� all on LP. The Phoenix I think wire whipped off to the right field but recovered OK.
Brad Shea was there, but no flight slips, you didn�t get aloft?
John Bergsmith flew a �Nike Smoke�, a scaled �Honest John� and a �Maxi-Streak� on LP.
Ashley Bergsmith flew a �Outlaw� and a Estes �Metalizer� on LP.
Ryan Bergsmith flew a rocket named �Thomas� for Thomas the builder on LP.
Sandy Houston flew a �Callisto� on MP, and as I understand it, with a motor ejection separation with main chute deployment at 20 seconds using a timer system. Sorry, but it bounced on the 20th second. I don�t remember it separating.
Brian Eagle flew a �Weasel� (only 18 oz) for a great altitude on MP and a �Nuke� on MP.
Tim Durbin brought out his dependable �Chester Cheetah� that �roc sim� estimated should get 15 � 1600 feet with the MP engine he selected.
David Clancy flew a Patriot renamed the �X-16� a few times on LP.
Rachel Clancy flew her �Rascal� on LP.
So that was Sundays activities. All in all, not bad for a breezy and sometimes windy day.
Ralph does have us scheduled for a Saturday only Make-up launch next weekend, the 22nd of March at the regular hours, set-up from 10 AM with launch�s as soon as set-up is complete till about 7 PM, a half hour before dark. Need some light to pack-up with.
Ken Allen, Performance Hobbies will be there all day Saturday also.
We came pretty short on the site fee donations, that goes to the land owner for the use of the land, so lets try to make it up this Saturday, and we have club memberships and T-shirts to aid the treasury.
OK, hope to see you all out there and somebody kidnap a weatherman and tell him what we want for that day, or we will commit him cleaning out the hog stalls. That ought to do it.
Remember to keep those exhaust nozzles clear.
We live to serve.
Roy, ROC Sec.