For those who may know the Woebkenberg family from the Indiana rocket club Luanch Crue. Ryan Woebkenberg's daughter Lauren passed away on Saturday at the age of 11. Ryan's Dad, Dave Woebkenberg, has faithfully attended all or nearly all of SLRA's October Fly contests. Please remember them in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
John Buckley
Bad news again (with a glimmer of good news).
The glimmer of good news is that the field in Addieville is starting to dry out, giving us hope that we can launch there at some point. However, due to a number of other factors (fairly serious cold, wind, low cloud ceiling, along with some key club leaders not being available) we have decided not to try to make it happen this weekend. I am well aware that a number of people are waiting to do certification flights, and I wish we could have made this work, but I'm afraid you are going to have to wait a bit longer.
We are also deep enough into the winter that we are less likely to have good weather than bad weather, and holidays are coming up. So rather than say that we're postponing the launch until a certain date (and sending out cancellation after cancellation), we are going to postpone "indefinitely" and put the launch back on the schedule when we have a combination of decent weather and available people.
Dan Crank
Secretary, St. Louis Rocketry Association
First things first - since our next regular meeting day (the fourth Tuesday of the month) falls on Christmas Day, there will be no club meeting for the month of December.
Secondly - surprising probably no one who has been checking the weather forecast like we have - the high-power launch is postponed another week due to rain, rain and more rain. Our launch date is now Saturday, December 8 and the location is still planned to be Addieville.
The rest of this post is a copy/paste of the earlier announcement, for your reference:
Range setup will begin at 8:30am and we can start flying rockets as soon as setup is done - so the more people that come early to help, the sooner we can start!
This will be a Tripoli launch held under Tripoli Research rules, so experimental motors are allowed for Tripoli members with the proper certification (although the RSO of course has the final say). There will also be a NAR NRC competition held alongside the high power launch and NAR members are welcome for either competition or sport / recreational flying. We will have 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" launch rods along with 1010 and 1515 rails. If you are launching a rocket weighing more than about 20 pounds and need the "monster" launch pad, you must let us know ahead of time, as we may not bring it if it's not needed.
Our FAA waiver permits flights up to 17,500 feet AGL (approximately 18,000 feet MSL). If you are planning a flight over 10,000 feet AGL, please bring simulation results to show to the RSO, to avoid any risk of violating that waiver altitude. (We have a great relationship with the FAA and want to keep it that way!)
There will be a $10 launch fee for high-power fliers, to defray the cost of renting the porta-potty for the day. Model rocket flyers will have a launch fee of $3, but this fee is waived for paid SLRA members. These launch fees are per family and good for however many flights you want to do.
Here are the latitude / longitude of the flying field, along with a Google Maps link. You'll enter off Raven Rd. and proceed SLOWLY through the farm to reach the launch site.
38°22'23.2"N 89°29'24.8"W
https://goo.gl/maps/WsGywj5vKjG2
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have any questions.
Dan Crank
Secretary, St. Louis Rocketry Association
SLRA is having our regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, November 27th, at our regular meeting location:
Fallon's Bar & Grill
9200 Olive Blvd. #116
Olivette, Missouri, 63132
The room will be available at 6:00 PM and the business meeting will start at about 7:00PM.
If you're a member of SLRA and are registered on the website, you can view minutes of previous meetings here: Meeting Minutes Page, The meeting minutes will be the basis of our "old business" discussion.
1. Treasury Status.
2. Recognition of Achievements
3. Recognition of Contributions
4. Members expenses.
5. Old Business - please review minutes for last month's meeting for topics
6. New Business
Online and paper membership forms with payments received by mail to be processed by treasurer and president.
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have new business for the meeting.
High-power fliers - please be aware of this advisory from AeroTech regarding the J450 and K535 Dark Matter DMS motors. Some J450DM motors in lot number 092818 and K535DM motors in lots 092418 and 101718 used cases that were wound at the incorrect angle and are thus more likely to fail. If you have one of these motors, please look at the attached document for details about how to determine whether you have a faulty one.
The new scheduled date for the high power launch is Saturday December 1.
The rest of this post is a copy/paste of the earlier announcement, for your reference:
Range setup will begin at 8:30am and we can start flying rockets as soon as setup is done - so the more people that come early to help, the sooner we can start!
This will be a Tripoli launch held under Tripoli Research rules, so experimental motors are allowed for Tripoli members with the proper certification (although the RSO of course has the final say). There will also be a NAR NRC competition held alongside the high power launch and NAR members are welcome for either competition or sport / recreational flying. We will have 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" launch rods along with 1010 and 1515 rails. If you are launching a rocket weighing more than about 20 pounds and need the "monster" launch pad, you must let us know ahead of time, as we may not bring it if it's not needed.
Our FAA waiver permits flights up to 17,500 feet AGL (approximately 18,000 feet MSL). If you are planning a flight over 10,000 feet AGL, please bring simulation results to show to the RSO, to avoid any risk of violating that waiver altitude. (We have a great relationship with the FAA and want to keep it that way!)
There will be a $10 launch fee for high-power fliers, to defray the cost of renting the porta-potty for the day. Model rocket flyers will have a launch fee of $3, but this fee is waived for paid SLRA members. These launch fees are per family and good for however many flights you want to do.
Here are the latitude / longitude of the flying field, along with a Google Maps link. You'll enter off Raven Rd. and proceed SLOWLY through the farm to reach the launch site.
38°22'23.2"N 89°29'24.8"W
https://goo.gl/maps/WsGywj5vKjG2
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have any questions.
Unfortunately, we need to postpone our high-power launch once again. The field in Addieville is still too muddy for us to bring vehicles in and set up a launch.
We are currently discussing a new schedule - we hope to be able to announce a date later today.
The rain this week has left the field in Addieville too muddy to use for a high-power launch this weekend. We have also contacted the landowner for the Elsberry site, but have received no response yet; we can assume, though, that it's just as muddy up there.
We are therefore postponing the launch until next Saturday, November 10, with the same setup time, 8:30am. Since we'll be off DST, we'll have a shorter day (sunset is at 6:00pm) but there should still be plenty of time to fly rockets until you're tired of chasing them.
The rest of this post is a copy/paste of the earlier announcement, for your reference:
Range setup will begin at 8:30am and we can start flying rockets as soon as setup is done - so the more people that come early to help, the sooner we can start!
This will be a Tripoli launch held under Tripoli Research rules, so experimental motors are allowed for Tripoli members with the proper certification (although the RSO of course has the final say). There will also be a NAR NRC competition held alongside the high power launch and NAR members are welcome for either competition or sport / recreational flying. We will have 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" launch rods along with 1010 and 1515 rails. If you are launching a rocket weighing more than about 20 pounds and need the "monster" launch pad, you must let us know ahead of time, as we may not bring it if it's not needed.
Our FAA waiver permits flights up to 17,500 feet AGL (approximately 18,000 feet MSL). If you are planning a flight over 10,000 feet AGL, please bring simulation results to show to the RSO, to avoid any risk of violating that waiver altitude. (We have a great relationship with the FAA and want to keep it that way!)
There will be a $10 launch fee for high-power fliers, to defray the cost of renting the porta-potty for the day. Model rocket flyers will have a launch fee of $3, but this fee is waived for paid SLRA members. These launch fees are per family and good for however many flights you want to do.
Here are the latitude / longitude of the flying field, along with a Google Maps link. You'll enter off Raven Rd. and proceed SLOWLY through the farm to reach the launch site.
https://goo.gl/maps/WsGywj5vKjG2
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have any questions.
Sorry - I meant to combine this announcement with the previous one, but I was just so excited about announcing the high-power launch that I hit the send button too soon.
SLRA is having our regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, October 23rd, at our regular meeting location:
Fallon's Bar & Grill
9200 Olive Blvd. #116
Olivette, Missouri, 63132
The room will be available at 6:00 PM and the business meeting will start at about 7:00PM.
If you're a member of SLRA and are registered on the website, you can view minutes of previous meetings here: Meeting Minutes Page, The meeting minutes will be the basis of our "old business" discussion.
1. Treasury Status.
2. Recognition of Achievements
3. Recognition of Contributions
4. Members expenses.
5. Old Business - please review minutes for last month's meeting for topics
6. New Business
Online and paper membership forms with payments received by mail to be processed by treasurer and president.
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have new business for the meeting.
Good news, everyone! We are pleased to announce a high-power launch at our Addieville Illinois launch site on Saturday, November 3rd. Range setup will begin at 8:30am and we can start flying rockets as soon as setup is done - so the more people that come early to help, the sooner we can start!
This will be a Tripoli launch held under Tripoli Research rules, so experimental motors are allowed for Tripoli members with the proper certification (although the RSO of course has the final say). There will also be a NAR NRC competition held alongside the high power launch and NAR members are welcome for either competition or sport / recreational flying. We will have 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" launch rods along with 1010 and 1515 rails. If you are launching a rocket weighing more than about 20 pounds and need the "monster" launch pad, you must let us know ahead of time, as we may not bring it if it's not needed.
Our FAA waiver permits flights up to 17,500 feet AGL (approximately 18,000 feet MSL). If you are planning a flight over 10,000 feet AGL, please bring simulation results to show to the RSO, to avoid any risk of violating that waiver altitude. (We have a great relationship with the FAA and want to keep it that way!)
There will be a $10 launch fee for high-power fliers, to defray the cost of renting the porta-potty for the day. Model rocket flyers will have a launch fee of $3, but this fee is waived for paid SLRA members. These launch fees are per family and good for however many flights you want to do.
Here are the latitude / longitude of the flying field, along with a Google Maps link. You'll enter off Raven Rd. and proceed SLOWLY through the farm to reach the launch site.
38°22'23.2"N 89°29'24.8"W
https://goo.gl/maps/WsGywj5vKjG2
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have any questions.