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  June 10th, 2012 LAUNCH IS GO!                 Launch Procedures

The next launch is scheduled for June 10th, 2012 at 9am.

On ”Beat the Heat” Launch days when the launch starts at 9am, the GO/NoGO call will be made by Noon on Saturday. The GO/NoGO notification time for the launches that are scheduled for Sunday afternoon is 10:30am Sunday morning. This should give us a better idea of how the weather will be that afternoon.  Please check back on the website for launch status and updates.

Our next club meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 7:00pm at Hobby Town. We will have our usual rocket talk and we’ll also have our usual show and tell at the end of the meeting. Hobby Town is located in the shopping center on the southwest corner of 71st and Memorial in Tulsa. You can find a map here.

You can prepare your flight cards ahead of time by getting the flight card form.

May 20th 2012 Launch Recap

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We had a great time yesterday afternoon. The weather was near-perfect with very light winds, temperatures in the mid-70s and a mix of clouds and sun. 

We put up a total of 57 flights, 13 of which were High Power flights. 

Some of the highlights included:

Paul Reed’s scratch-built Intentionally Left Blank on an I218R.  Randy Luhman’s scratch Sidewinder on a CTI J760.  Justin Nichols, from Moore, OK, with his Giant Leap Vertical Assault on a J800  (7500 ft!).  Mini-Mag fever continued with MM “test flights” by Dave Towers, Randy Luhman, Jaunice Wright and Glen Thomason. 

Overall, a great afternoon. Several people were taking pictures, so we’ll try to get some of those posted on the website ASAP.  If you missed out this time, make plans now to join us Sunday morning, June 10th at 9am.

New Date for RocketScience Launch

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Based on feedback from our participating teachers, we have decided to move the RocketScience launch to the Fall, beginning with our launch on October 14th of this year. Teachers indicated the Fall is much less hectic than the Spring, and that we would probably be able to get more students and more teachers involved if we held our event in the Fall.

Time for GO/NoGO Notification has changed.

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The GO/NoGO notification time for the launches that are scheduled for Sunday afternoon is 10:30am Sunday morning. This should give us a better idea of how the weather will be that afternoon. On  ”Beat the Heat” Launch days when the launch starts at 9am, the GO/NoGO call will be made by Noon on Saturday.  Please check back on the website for launch status and updates.

Webmaster Stepping Down

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It’s been a pretty good run over that last 10 years.  I’d like to think that the website is better now than it was when I took it over.  Hopefully everyone has found it to be a useful tool.

But after 10 years I have decided that I’d like to spend more time doing other things.  Therefore I am retiring as webmaster.  I’ve already got a good replacement in Glenn Thomason.   He will do just as good a job as I have done, maybe even better.

To help him get started, I have converted our old hand coded HTML based website to this new WordPress based site.  This should make his job much easier than maintaining all that HTML.  He will be taking over day to day duties soon.  Let’s all wish him well.

See you all at the range.

2012 Launch Schedule

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The 2012 launch schedule has been decided.  Once again most launches occur on the second Sunday of each month, starting in March and ending in November.  Notable exceptions are April (skipping Easter Sunday) and May (skipping Mother’s Day).

Officers were elected at the January meeting.  Hal Ellis was retained as Prefect, Mark Piersall was retained as Treasurer and Dan Littmann was retained as FAA contact.

Stay Off the Sod

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Just as a reminder to new visitors to our launches, please only drive on the dirt roads between the sod fields. DO NOT DRIVE ON THE SOD.  We simply CANNOT stress this enough.  Driving on the sod can damage it and make it harder to harvest. If it doesn’t look like a well worn dirt road then it’s not a dirt road, it’s probably an area that was recently harvested. Check out the new updated map and directions.  Thanks for your cooperation.