Upcoming Launch Schedule

ROCC 2023-2024 Launch Schedule:

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

Midland is Closed for the season

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
Feb202009

Launch Update for Feb. 21st - 22nd

DateFriday, February 20, 2009 at 5:50PM

Note to all attendees: Drive on the edges of the field ONLY. There's been a lot of rain and we need to be careful

Set-up at 10:00 AM with launch�s starting as soon as set-up is complete.

Tear-Down at Dusk 5-5:30 Sat, and just before Dusk Sunday. Good to have light to put everything away by.
Vendors:
Performance Hobbies, aka, Ken Allen is scheduled to attend both days. Prepare to do some shopping.

Food available. Charlie Ogino and family is holding a Fund Raiser for Charlie�s TARC (Team America Rocket Challenge) Competition Rocket Team during the weekend. Food will help keep you warm.
They are planning on having slices of pizza (from Marios) and drinks available (maybe some baked goods) for Saturday. It should be arriving about 1:00 pm.

Do come on out. I always see pictures of those Yankee clubs up north in lawn chairs sitting in the snow grinning as they do their launch�s. They can�t be that more extreme than us down south. We should be able do better than that.

Read More for weather outlook....

Saturday weather as it is now projected, depending on what source you go by.

Sat morning is to start off clear and sunny, in the upper 20�s, mid to upper 30�s by launch time. Then warm up to the upper 40�s by the afternoon with developing cloud cover moving in with the chance of some rain in the late afternoon or early evening. We should be done by that time anyway. Most of it is suppost to be north of Charlotte, any winter mix is suppost to be at Statesville and north .

Sunday weather is about the same, maybe a bit warmer, but probably moist grass and ground in the morning due to the Sat evening/night rain.

Hand and Backside warming with shelter. We will have two fire pits available and a pop-up shelter with a windscreen. If someone could grab a bundle of that firewood at a convience store, that would help out. Our Prefect Ralph has a propane space heater that could go into one of the shelters.

If anybody as an additional pop-up shelter, we could put that over the Sign-in table to keep any mist or rain off the paperwork this time. Last month�s rain really got the forms wet.

Dress accordingly. We know how to do it now. Remember, this is a working farm. Dress in layers with some good sturdy warm footwear. Your feet get cold easily if your not moving around, and if your feet get cold, the rest of you soon follows.

Hope to see you on the flight line. Watch the web site, www.rocketrycarolina.org, for any last minute details.

Roy. ROCC Sec.

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