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I think Joe is in Utah and will not be at the launch tomorrow. That pretty much leaves Jon Skuba and Cool Rocket Stuff as your motor vendor. He carries, as I recall, Quest motors and has some motors that…   Read more»

Hobbytown? Rocket motors? That’s like matter and anti-matter occupying the same space.I think Joe will be at Hellfire. I don’t know if anyone else will be on-site. Jon Skuba might be.Edward

I will be there early to help with what ever needs to be done,except fetching Jon’s “G” rockets.

Yeah, that’s to bad John will be so busy, poor guy prolly won’t have any time to fly G motors, 8)See you on the range!

I’ll be happy to take up the towing chores.

I had a fantastic night at the North site with Glen Colon-Benet and John Wilke and John’s amazing scope. Talk about dark and clear. I must have seen two dozen galaxies and deep sky objects.

As I understand it, going to the grasslands is like going to the national forest. Open to everyone anytime. You just cannot fly rockets. You could probably go to the Atlas site also without difficulty. You can also head out…   Read more»

Warren,Ah – that makes sense! I recall speaking with Lea about rocketry and the big shoots at the Pawnee Grasslands when I was still active in 4-H as a rocketry leader.It is truly a small world!Say “Hello” to Lea for…   Read more»

You know Kevin, you worked with my wife for quite a while – Lea Fisher.

Nice photo of Warren (and 4-H member) on the Longmont Times-Call web site.http://www.timescall.com/specialsection/bouldercountyfair/ci_18565933Kevin Taberski

Glad it all worked out! There’s a notable photo in the Daily Camera. NCR members have always been quick to help when we can. Thanks.

As Warren mentioned, we had a very thin showing from the 4-H membership, but the 4-H Extension office had offered a summer outreach program to the kids from Casa de la Esperanza (http://www.bouldercounty.org/help/house/pages/casaesperanza.aspx), so we had 22 more!So, we had…   Read more»

Well that was fun. A bit of a disappointment that only 5 or 6 4H’rs showed up, but there were about 25 kids from some school that showed up. Everyone had a blast and the kids were, as kids do,…   Read more»

Thanks Warren! (and Larry!)I look forward to working with you tomorrow.Kevin Taberski

Most awesome – thank you. I’ve been trying to work out a way to do this event and everything else slated for Wednesday. Go easy on the kids!

I’ve got it covered. Larry Haynes called me today and my boss (Vic Davis), another rocketry obsessed fellow, feels it would be a good use of my work time to go do this. I’ll be taking a couple of my…   Read more»

Adept units are smaller, shorter antennas… and have brought many a rocket back from 20K++. The results with Walstsons have been a bit less repeatable – at least in my experience.

Wow Mike,Looks very cool!

Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s, Estes had a spiral wound body tube, just like our kraft paper body tubes of today, that was made of mylar, instead of paer, called the BT-30. It was lighter than a…   Read more»

Epoxy doesn’t stick to mylar, so you use it as a release film when laying up fiberglass or carbon fiber. I should say that epoxy “largely” doesn’t stick to mylar, but it does to a degree, just not like it…   Read more»