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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Jun032013

Why TARC? Here's why...

DateMonday, June 3, 2013 at 9:02PM

So most of you know we support the NAR Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), and some of you have even worked with one of the teams that have come to our launches.

The question the rest of you might ask is "Is it doing any good?"

Well, as this note will show you, YES, it does. I've obvuscated it a bit to conceal the true identities, but it made me very happy to hear the following from Martha Thompson...

"The Gaston Day School TARC team has completed its third year of existence. The three original team members have now graduated high school. All three are certified at the Junior level for HPR through NAR. Jim Eddings has been the NAR mentor, with an unquenchable enthusiasm for the development of the team. He generously has given of his time to listen to rocket design ideas, travel to launches (Charlotte and Orangeburg), provide supplies when  needed, and most importantly, encourage the boys at each step, or back step in the process. He stepped back and allowed them to make the decisions, to succeed or fail, and helped console them after many KATOs.

 

 We now have three future scientists: 

  

The first one will be attending Furman University in the Fall, pursuing a pre-engineering degree, with hopes to focus in Aeronautical Engineering.

 Student number 2 is headed to St. Lawrence University to major in physics and engineering.
 And student 3 will be at SUNY in Syracuse majoring in Environmental Science.
The rocketry exposure has solidified their interest in the science field, as they learned applied science, perseverance, details, the true meaning of the "scientific method" through trial and error. 

 

Teenagers frequently find it difficult to recognize there are adults with useful knowledge who have a willingness to impart the same. Through the support of ROCC, each member of the team, collectively and individually have learned to seek guidance of you rocketry experts. Perhaps this will spill over into other areas of their lives as they explore new paths.  

 We can see a glimpse of how these boys are already "paying it forward", as this past school year they started a "Rocket Club" for 5th-6th graders and led the group of 19 through 2 builds and subsequent launches. They stood up to the challenge and have sparked the interest of many youngsters.   

 Thanks to all ROCC members who have asked questions, provided support, extracted rockets from trees, lent a tool, motor casings, or some epoxy over the years, and simply but significantly, reached out to encourage the GDS TARC team. We are working to put together a team for next year.  It will be a building year, with one veteran, where new members will need your encouraging words even more, and any other support you will provide. "

-- Martha Thompson

TARC mom/facilitator/ROCC family member 

June 3, 2013

Thanks Martha, and good luck to all of the students. I'm proud to have helped, even in a small way, with their pursuit of an exciting career.

Doc Russell

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Reader Comments (1)

That, my friends, is why I enjoy the ups and downs of helping run such a great club. Over the years the countless success of our mentored TARC teams and countless others is what gets me through the long days of club management, sunburn, dehydration, weather GOs and No GOs, CATOS and the smell of hogs in the evening. It makes me happy that by enjoying this hobby as an adult, the mentoring we all provide gives me and should give everyone such a since of accomplishment. To all the volunteers and club officers of ROCC, we all have a hand in this because without the support of you, ROCC would not be what it is today. Thanks Everyone!

True Story

Just like what happen with our long time member Robby Kirk, had we turned him away when he showed up with a tall rocket with cardboard fins hot glued to an airframe. He may not be an NC State graduate with a degree in aeronautical engineering. No, we all worked to fly that beast on a small H (back in the day) and it flew, not that high, but high enough for him to set his sights higher. So, for every tip we give, every motor we loan out, every rocket we build and raffle to a kid that has none.

That may be all it takes to start a dream. I think someone once said “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. It all starts in the small fields where a bunch a folks gather together to fly some rockets, that would be Rocketry of Central Carolina.

Yours truely,
Ralph Roberts - TRA Charlotte Prefect

June 4, 2013 | Registered CommenterRalph Roberts
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