June Launch set to 4th Weekend - June 25th-26th

****Revised**** The launch has been moved back to the 4th weekend, the June 25th-26th weekend. I spoke to Kip Thursday night and he has not taken the Winter Wheat out of the field yet. He expects to get it by middle of week next week. He did let me know that Velvet (Kip's sister) has actually planted Soy Beans in on the North field so that is good news. There is a bit of bad news, his corn he planted in the south field from the road up to the creek is already up to knee to waist high. That is only a 1/4 of that front area and the way the prevailing winds are should not cause much problem. I just wanted to let you know we will have some corn to deal with. I plan on being there this weekend to pick up some stuff from the silo for a demo. I will try to talk a vendor in to coming next weekend, it will depend on the prior commentments. I would also like to have our Spring-Summer Campout launch this time to, so plan on camping if you can. One other note, due to the shourt turn-around time from Wheat and Barley to Soy-Beans we may try to have the July launch Early, maybe the 9th-10th weekend, we will decide by the next launch. Thanks, Ralph Roberts Note: If anyone is interested in renting the Farm House there at 16620 Hopewell Church Rd, it is just about ready. Mrs. Williams has been working hard on the inside to get it ready to rent. Email me and I will get you in contact with her.

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Nice story on NPR on a TARC group

Check out this good store about a TARC team of all girl rocketeers. link here edited by Jean Russell, to make the link clickable.

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May Launch Equipment Clean is on for today, will you be there, call me.

I spoke to Kip and Mrs. Williams, we are on for today. Doc, Marcus, and Steve are the only ones that have indicated the are coming. Marcus is coming out to take his Tripoli L2 test as well. Anyone else? Call me if you will be there. Note: Kip mentioned he if about two weeks away for starting on the Barley and a little longer on the Winter Wheat. Plus Mrs. Williams has got the house rented again. Will check on what that will mean for us, hopefully, no change. Call me on my cell 704-560-0147 if you can make it today.

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May 2005 Launch cancelled, Equipment Clean-up day instead

Sorry, no launch this month, no suitable fields available. Even though we were cleared to fly at the locust city park/elementary school the area they cleared of trees has not been planted in grass. There is no way we could walk through al the tree debris and mud puddles to retrieve rockets safely. So, we will cancel the launch and schedule an equipment clean-up day at the farm to get ready for next month's launch back at the farm. Lets plan on the equipment clean up for between 3-5 on Sat, the 21st. I will check with Kip to make sure it is OK.

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WWW.SAVEROCKETRYNOW.ORG campaign is rolling along

WWW.SAVEROCKETRYNOW.ORG is a co-sponsored web site used to raise money for both national rocketry organization's fight against the BATFE and to raise money for advertising. They are sponsoring a raffle and for a $10.00 donation you get a raffle ticket for some great stuff and to help the cause. You have until May 15th to purchase tickets, drawings will be held soon after so hurry to get in on it.

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Photo request

We've had a great number of flights in the last 2 months, but I have to admit I haven't been taking many photos at the launches in this time frame. Does anyone have photos that they can send me to post on the site? If you do, I'd love to have 'em. Please, if you do, send them to my g-mail account (it's got a 2 GIGAbyte mail box on it) at: rocketrycarolina@gmail.com. Thanks so much and be sure to send me credit info so I can get the credit lines right! Thanks, Doc Russell

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April Launch Annoucement (Read Carefully) (Revised)

The April Launch is a go for the Farm with limitations (April 16th and 17th) We will have to setup nearest to the areas of the field that are not getting close to harvesting. This means moving all the way to the back of the runway. This is per Kip tonight. The problem is, there is little room to the south and west for recovery. I would strongly recommend cutting your altitude and power levels due to recovery area. Note There is a huge field to the North and Northeast, you just have to hope the rockets don't windcock or rodwhip in the wrong direction. I will meet with Kip early Saturday morning to evaluate the best place for setup. We will need to keep everyone out of the fields except those recovering their rockets. Let's limit the helpers. Also note the Wheat in some places may be Knee deep. Long pants are recommended. Don't fly small rockets such as Ninjas and Swifts that can't hold large streamers they will fall down into the wheat and you will not be able to find them. Use big streamers and chutes so they lay up on top of the wheat. We will start the launch at 12:00 Noon. We will be running the launch from 12:00 Noon to 7:00PM each day. Setup at 11:30AM each day.

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Website is getting used !

Well, I was sitting around earlier today and I decided to go and see what the site had been doing lately. Was I surprised! Here are some stats from the counter pages: This site has received 22303 pages views since 08.2004, 39 today, and 53 yesterday. The day on which there was the most traffic so far was Wednesday, January 26, 2005 (607 page views), while Thursday, September 02, 2004 (1 page views) was the day with the fewest hits. Most people visit on Tuesday, with a total of 3778 page views, while Saturday is the day with the fewest visits, with a total of 2358 page views. On average, the busiest hour (with 1659 page views ) starts at 22 :00, The hour during which traffic has been lightest starts at 4 :00, (with only 208 page views). So send me articles, news, photos and the like! Or join and send us a request to get your log-in. Then you can send stories to the site for a moderator (like Ralph or I) to post! Thanks, Doc Russell

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Water Found on Mars !!!!!

Water has been found on Mars.... Check it out!!!!!! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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Request for TARC mentor ASAP.....

Would any NAR member have time to help out a group near Salisbury, NC the first week of April? Steve Bumgarner was contacted by a teacher this week. If you can help, email ralph at RoccPrez@prodigy.net and we can get you in contact with Michael Harris.

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