NC Rocketry

We held one of our low power launches at the Butner Beef Cattle Research Facility this weekend after dropping the May and June events from the calender because of a big NAR launch in Orangeburg, and LDRS in Potter, NY, in those months. The weather in Butner was perfect this Saturday: warm but not dangerously hot, relatively low humidity (for July), and extremely calm winds. Just a great day to be outdoors. Continue reading →

Launch Report April 25-26, 2015

This weekend marked the final launch of the 2014-2015 Rocketry Season at Bayboro and the first day of halfway decent rocketry weather since November 2014. After 4 months of terrible luck in the weather department, Saturday was like a dream: no wind, warmer than arctic temperature, and no precipitation until about 2:30 in the afternoon. Sunday was rained out.

Let?s look at the motor use summary and then examine some high (and low) points. Continue reading →

Winter launches are unpredictable and usually occasions where only the truly committed show up and participate. The weekends of January 17-18 and February 28-March 1, 2015, were just such events. Of those four days, only one was the sort of day on which anybody actually wanted to be there, the others were exclusively attended by unfortunate souls who were on some sort of schedule, and needed to make a qualifying flight, or who had volunteered to be prefect, scholastic advisor, or who were coaching an academic team. Continue reading →