April 17th and 18th

Looking forward to the April launch everybody?

UPDATE - SATURDAY MORNING

Note: The field to the left of the runway/parking area is planted in Barley and at this point it is growing up fast, smaller rockets may be hard to find in the Barley. With the wind blowing rockets into that area this weekend please be aware. Bring streamer material to add to our recovery. It will help.

With Wind Gust Saturday, as the front passes through, to 20-25 miles per hour and low humidity we are at risk for Fire Danger. We may need to limit Sparky motors and only fly rockets with know flight profiles. Everyone please fly wisely.
CAMPOUT this month!!!
No fires on the ground but bring your firepits or BBQ's, your vittles and your telescopes.
If you remember we're going to be running the H egg loft contest during April, as well as our continuing run of the golf ball loft.

The H egg loft rules are spelled out on the NAR website here .

I'd like to restrict the hours for the H egg loft to between 1:00 and 5:00 pm if possible. I know that if I have to be there to run the show I'm good for that amount of time both days.

I will bring stopwatches as well as my gram scale, so that we can weigh the eggs before flight, and I will bring a carton of 18 grade-A large eggs. I will say that at least 10 of those are spoken for between Wayne, Sandy and I, so if you want to be sure I have eggs for you then please let me know at rocketrycarolina@gmail.com. If you want to bring your own grade-A larges that's OK as well (hence the scale!).

The golf ball loft is our just-for-fun contest to see who can get the longest duration flight on a B engine. There's a nice prize from Paul Phillips' carbon fiber glider company up for grabs at the end of it. Right now, unless there's a result I don't know about, I have the lead at 1 minute and Roy Potter's right behind me with :58 seconds. Stewart Samuel had a great riff on it by doing a NERF football loft in March. It gave me a great laugh!

Remember, Ken will not be with us (he's at Red Glare) so I hope you shopped for supplies over the last few months. If not, you can contact him directly at the Performance Hobbies website but do it soon so he can ship it.

Next to the last thing... We're on You Tube! I got 1 of Sandy's videos up on Friday. I'm playing with the bit rates and such to try and get the best balance of speed and resolution. Our "channel" is located here. If you search youtube.com for rocketrycarolina, without the space, you should find it as well. There's also a video up there from someone who came out to visit us and had a lot of fun.

As always, thanks for all who make this a great club. Please step up and volunteer your time in some way, either as set-up/tear down, RSO/LCO, or some of the many outreach opportunities there are out there. The old saying is still good, "Many hands make light work".

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Thanks,
Doc Russell, ROCC VP