Warren B. Musselman

For a 100K or even 50K waiver, I'd drive 5 hours... at least as soon as I have a bird finished for that altitude. W

Think SE or NW Colorado on Grasslands or BLM land. Somewhere on the web I saw a map with all the major air traffic corridors in the Continental US - that's the map you want to read between the lines o...

In thinking about it, we would need permission for 9 contiguous sections with the launch site in the middle in order to have our 25K waiver. Of course an ideal 50K waiver would probably require 16 sec...

A section is a square mile - 640 acres. Currently we have a waiver to a certain altitude, but it also presupposes a certain diameter circle with no house or buildings and no road above a certain traff...

The permit has been in process for at least 5 or 6 years now. We aren't what's holding it up. I just now got back from lunch with Joe discussing this very issue. HOPEFULLY, we will have one or more re...

I should add a comment to expand on what Joe said - there are only 3 elected positions open to all members - President, Tripoli Prefect and Tripoli Secretary. All other executive committee positions a...

I'm certainly open to passing the contest director role on - particularly if I take over TRA Prefect. A little new energy would be a good thing and the more folks we have step up to the plate, the eas...

8' panels of G10 would be way pricey. Far more than building it out of a big sonotube with glass reinforcing. Full scale, I think your G10 bill might run well up into 5 figures

Art, like Pat G said, you are a class act... Warren

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It is with deep sadness I must report the passing of Erik Gates, a member of the Tripoli BOD and one of the pillars of the HPR community. Not much is known aside from the posting from John Van Norman,...

That certainly is the kind of work, the kind of focus I'd love to be able to achieve in my own work. Try wandering the rest of the site - some truly amazing stuff there.

I think so - if a consensus can be reached. I'll scratch out some proposed rules. Warren

That's a great deal John. W

Yes. Stiffness is along the long axis of the fibers. Standard weave fabric is stiff in two directions, unidirectional weave is stiff in one direction and twill weaves are a bit less strong, but the di...