December & New Years launch reports

Welcome.

What we have here is a compressed report of the last few launch’s of 2013 to the New Year’s Day launch of 2014.

Due to weather or last minute choices to launch due to weather, they were all one day launch’s.

Ken, of Performance Hobbies was usually there and did a good bit of business with sales plus delivering preordered items.

There are pictures on the Gallery of allthe launch dates, go see them.

Remember, for our embarrassment and your entertainment, any pictures you have from this or any recent launch that you would like to get posted on the web site for everyone to see, just contact Doc Russell at: rocketrycarolina at gmail dot com,  or as some have done, pass it on a disk or flash drive. We can always get it back to you.

ROCC club 2014 membership’s.

We have the drive going for the new 2014 flying season.

Membership funds go to the NAR and Tripoli association fees and insurance and cover the costs of maintaining the launch equipment.

 ROCC “T” shirts. ( Any $20 membership comes with a ROCC T-shirt.)

We went through the gray shirts, then the tie-dye shirts and now by request we will be offering a tannish brown polo shirt with collar and then assorted solid colored shirts.

All with the colored ROCC logo.

Saturday, 26 October 2013. A one day make-up launch.

We had 10 flyers.

Roy Potter with 9 flights, Mark Bartkowiak with the most flights at 11, Steve Brown with 8 flights, Doc Russell with 6 flights, Ralph Roberts with 2 flights, John Bergsmith with 6 flights, Ryan Bergsmith also with 6 flights, Adam Butler with 3 flights, Greg Bulcock with 4 flights and Sandy Houston also with 4 flights.

We put up 59 flights burning 59 engines.

6 A’s.   8 B’s.  26 C’s.  13 D’s.  and 6 E’s.

Saturday, 30 November 2013. Another one day make-up launch.

We had 12 Flyers.

Michael Hollowell with 6 flights, Doc Russell with 4 flights, Roy Potter with 4 flights, Stuart Samuels with 7 flights, David and Michael Strunk with 5 flights, David Popkin with 1 flight, Mark Hartmann with 4 flights, Sandy Houston with one flight which was a 3 stager with cluster stages of six E12’s to three E12’s to one E9. Adam Butler had the most flights with 12, Marcas Harmon with 3 flights, one with a cluster of six D12’s and a H135, and the other with two H197’s and one I280. John Bergsmith with 4 flights and Ryan Bergsmith with 5 flights.

We put up 56 flights burning 76 engines including clusters and multi stage flights.

5 A’s.  8 B’s.  11 C’s.  13 D’s.  15 E’s.  8 F’s.  8 G’s.  6 H’s.  and 2 I’s.

Saturday, 21 December 2013. Regular Saturday but rained out Sunday.

We had 22 Flyers.

Malcolm Smith with 3 flights, Roy Potter with 8 flights, Rodney Earp with 3 flights, Devon Tomkinson with 3 flights, Michael Holowell with 2 flights, Don Ball with 3 flights, Mark Baetkowiak with 6 flights, Stephen Rhudy with 1 flight, Joe Pettler with 3 flights, Terry baucom with 1 flight, Marcus Harmon with 2 flights, one a cluster of two G53’s and a G80. Robbie Kirk with 4 flights, Brandon Smith with 3 flights, Ralph Roberts with 3 flights, Dave Popkin with 1 flight, Dave and Micheal Strunk with 3 flights, Charles Ogino with 1 flight, Doc Russell with 1 flight, Louise Ferrell with 1 flight, Jim Hendrickson with 1 flight, Ryan Bergsmith with 4 flights and John Bergsmith with 2 flights.

We put up 59 flights burning 68 engines including clusters and multi stage flights.

2 A’s.  1 B’s.  20 C’s.  6 D’s.  4 E’s.  8 F’s.  12 G’s.  7 H’s.   5 I’s. and  3 J’s.

Wednesday, New Year’s Day, January 1^st, 2014, Holiday Launch.

All I have is the sign-in sheet without the launch slips so I can only say who was there who actually signed-in. There are a lot of pictures in the gallery for the launch.

There were 16 signed-in flyers.

Malcolm Smith, Stuart Samuels, Doc Russell, Sandy Houston, John Bergsmith, David Popkin, Keith Biddinger, Ralph Roberts, Paul and Aaron Schaefer, Terry Baucom, Jim Scarpine, Marcus Harmon, David Tomkinson, Todd Haring, and Steve Rhudy.

Hope everyone had fun and will be looking forward to our next launch, till then, remember to keep your exhaust nozzles clear.

Roy. ROCC Sec.