At last night's meeting we sat down with a calendar and worked out a launch schedule for this year! All of the events are now shown on the calendar on the SLRA website, so please bookmark that for your reference.

First off, here are our planning dates for high power launches this year. All of the usual disclaimers apply (field availability depends on weather and whether crops are currently planted in the fields) so these dates are somewhat tentative. You will also notice that this is a list of weekends - each high-power launch will still be a one-day event, but the day will be selected once we have a reasonable weather forecast, about a week ahead of time. This way, we hope to avoid confusion if we have a situation like we did last month, when we scheduled for Sunday and then changed it at the last minute based on the weather forecast. Finally: there are no locations attached to these dates yet. We will decide which field we're going to based on whether crops are going to be out, and we don't usually know that this far ahead of time. However, we're thinking that any spring launches will probably be in Elsberry because the winter wheat won't be out in Addieville.

2018 High power planning dates:
February 24 / 25
March 17 / 18
April 7 / 8
October 20 / 21
November 17 / 18
December 1 / 2

Next up are the Buder Park model rocket launch dates. These are pretty much set unless we have a scheduling conflict with the park. Same as last year, the model rocket launch will be on the weekend following the monthly meeting, and will alternate between Saturday and Sunday. However, since our meeting are now near the end of the month, this sometimes pushes the launch date into the next month (e.g., the "June" launch is actually scheduled for July 1).

2018 Model rocket launch dates:
Saturday, March 31 (the day before Easter)
Sunday, April 29
Saturday, May 26 (Memorial Day weekend)
Sunday, July 1
Saturday, July 28
Sunday, September 2 (Labor Day weekend)
Saturday, September 29

Finally, there will be a two-day event at the Teeniemunde field near Springfield, MO - "Heavy Metal III". This event is scheduled for May 19th and 20th. We'll have more details on that event coming soon.

If you have any questions, please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com, and we hope to see you at the field!