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Current Club News
(updated 05/13/2008
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Welcome to the Tulsa Rocketry
website.
Our next club launch is
scheduled to be June 8th, 2008. Hopefully the weather will be as
nice as it has been for the last three launches. Keep checking back for updates.
The May launch was continued the
string of great flying days ever, equally as good
as the April launch. Many flights took to the
air and we had a very good turnout. Reports said we had
50 cars at the field at one time. Our RocketScience 2008 launch
went well. We had 7 of 9 payloads make the flight. The
flight went well and there was only minor damage to the nose cone on
landing. Pictures and results
of the experiments are posted. Overall, it was again, a great day of flying.
Our next meeting will be Thursday,
May 15, 2008 at 7:00pm at Flight Safety.
We'll have a wrap up of RockeScience 2008 and our usual rocket talk and show and tell at the end of the
meeting.
One note to all who might come
out to a Leonard launch: Even though it might look like a dirt
road leaves 161st street and heads north, please DO NOT USE IT.
Instead please drive around on the pavement and enter from the east on the dirt road
where the tractor sheds are. Thanks for your cooperation.
As a reminder of how to get to the new site see the map.
Remember: DO NOT
DRIVE ON THE SOD!
The RocketScience
Project is gearing up for 2008. We are now actively looking for
schools that would like to participate in the 2008
project. We currently have six schools that have indicated they
want to participate this year. If your school might be
interested in lofting a science payload several thousand feet into the
atmosphere, check out the RocketScience page for more details. NEW:
some sample electronics have been added to the Examples
page. Check it out.
If you are thinking of trying to
push the sound barrier on one of your flights, you've got to check out
this video.
It shows what can happen to G10 fins at transonic/supersonic speeds.
Keep in mind our launch
notification procedure. The Prefect
will send out an email by 10:00 am
Saturday to indicate if the launch is a GO/NOGO. It will be
posted on this web site shortly after the notice goes out. We
also have simplified our launch fees. Low power (1/4 A through G)
will be free for anyone. If you are going to fly High Power (H or above)
the fee is $5.00 for members and $10.00 for non members.
Do you think you'd like to join our happy group? Visit our Membership Info
page to find out how. You can see the 2008 Officer's here.
If you like rocketry and/or astronomy and
you're a girl or boy age 14 through 20, check out the
Venture Crew that we are sponsoring, Crew
2010.
High Power
News (H thru O motors only):
Anyone in the club that is Level 1 or higher or
planning on getting your Level 1 will need to get a LEUP unless you
purchase motors on the day you fly. The tutorial
on this website will help you get one.
Check out the Attached
Garage Storage Variance Tutorial. It has worked for several
members so we have now turned it into our latest LEUP related
tutorial. We hope it helps you.
Questions, problems or comments contact .
Send us your
launch
photos and we'll put them up on the site with your photo credit.
(Give us your URL and we'll include a link to your site.)
Copyright © 2008, Tulsa Rocketry
Page last modified Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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