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All,This is going to be a great launch but we need LCOs, RSOs, Pad Managers, and Registration help! Please help where you can.I’m suggesting we try using a Google Document to manage the schedule.Here’s the link to the schedule;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArFo2z4cgemOdHozaTBWSUNLOUFtdVhMcktJRW1mNUE&hl=en_USPlease check…   Read…[Read more]

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My friend who just got a new rc car and it won’t start. He wanted to know if any one could figure out why it wouldn’t start. I know nothing of the hobby so I can’t help him

Has anybody used this software (AeroCFD)and can you share impressions, results, experiences? I have a bird that Rocksim says will be overstable, but when launched with very little breeze, it was virtually unstable and became a skywriter, only achieving about…   Read more»

Anyone going to BALLS this year? If so I am looking for someone that would be willing to do a favor and pickup some Kosdon motors from Dave Triano and transport (ie car not plane) them back to Colorado. Nothing…   Read more»

Looking for some entertainment this weekend? And I thought our rocketry hobby was expensive – these guys fly planes worth more than my car. http://www.warbirdsovertherockies.com/

All,A friend wants to bring a couple of Cub Scout dens (3rd graders) to Oktoberfest. I was going to be their “guide” but sadly I have a Boy Scout conflict that day so won’t be able to attend. They are…   Read more»

Despite some last-minute drama involving the propellant grains, Tim Thomas flew a successful L3 cert at Tripoli Colorado’s Fall Frenzy today! Beautiful flight. Tim observed that since the flight blew all the dust off, the airframe was actually recovered looking…   Read more»

call or email Joe or Ed, I don’t feel comfortable posting address or phone # here,Or am I too carefull? 😕

Does anyone out there have a lead on a decent threaded forward closure for CTI 54mm motors. I would like to plug the north end of CTI motors, relying instead on my own avy-bay based deployment, and while I am…   Read more»

Count on Warren D and I being there.

Hey everyone!Tripoli-Colorado’s Fall Frenzy event is this weekend, Saturday September 17 and Sunday September 18. Saturday will be for commercially-certified motors only. COSROCS will join us on Saturday, and will have their array of low- and mid-powered equipment. Sunday will…   Read more»

I’m going to create a rocketry “yearbook” containing photos of rockets flown by Colorado residents during the year of 2011. This is an open call for photo submissions. If you took any rocket-related photos this year, whether at an event…   Read more»

Great days for flying rockets. Near perfect weather.My 4″ Thor-x went 8621′ Woo WooMy BOMARC needed more weight in the top end. It went up ??? 50’or so, took a right angle then into the ground. Repairable but,…[Read more]

You can read the article and see the photos at: http://www.space.com/12886-worlds-largest-solid-rocket-atk-nasa-test-liberty.htmlTo me that was a new amateur rocketry motor in a never before built class. It is the new X16344000 motor. It is 3700mm in diameter, as a 5 grain…   Read more»

Yahoo – Oktoberfest is around the corner! Time once again to charge the batteries, clean the rods & rails, & lift the bales (well maybe not the bales part).Sunday morning, September 18th at my place south of Longmont. It should…   Read more»

From the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter//news.yahoo.com/astronauts-tracks-trash-seen-moon-photos-171551736.htmlAnd//www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html

Okay, back from LDRS XXX and now trying to get Vanna cleaned up and organized for NCR’s club launch September 10 and 11. Looking for trailer tow help and range operators, including Fire Watch and Oktoberfest planners.Still working out details…   Read more»

Guys, does anyone have a standard-length (6″) piece of 54mm Performance Rocketry coupler? I am oversold by one piece… and I’m headed out on a long trip soon. If you have a spare, I’d make it very right with you!

My Bomarc is ready to fly, probably on an H180.It will got up the Sept. launch.https://picasaweb.google.com/mshinn2001/Bomarc#5644023265163645762