June 4-5, 2005 saw Tulsa Rocketry host the first Prairie Thunder Regional Launch at the Pawhuska Municipal Airport, located in scenic Osage County, Oklahoma.

The range was open both Saturday and Sunday at 9:00am and closed at 5:00 pm.  We had a waiver to 20,000 feet AGL. Check out the launch photos.

LOC/Precision sponsored the Ultimate Warloc Drag Race.  The prize for first place was a $50 gift certificate from LOC/Precision, which was won by Mike Doyle of Claremore, OK.

The star party Saturday night was to be put on by members of the Astronomy Club of Tulsa.  Unfortunately it was clouded out by the severe storms in the area that night. However, Louis A. Mayo, a NASA planetary scientist from the Goddard Spaceflight Center, has worked on Voyager and Cassini among other missions, gave a very interesting talk at the Constantine Theater in Pawhuska. The ACT also had an inflatable planetarium on-site Saturday that seated 25-30 children or adults at a time, with 45 minute shows running all day.

For youth fliers through age 18, there was a "Closest to the Buffalo" contest each day.  The contest was sponsored by Helmer Oil Corporation of Pawhuska.  The daily prizes were $25, $15 and $10 dollars for first, second and third each day.  Each day's winners were:

Closest to the Buffalo / Saturday:

1st - Emily McClure - Pryor, OK - 9 feet
2nd - Trevor Crumm - Broken Arrow,OK - 17 feet
3rd - Chandler Helmer - Pawhuska, OK - 37 feet

Closest to the Buffalo / Sunday

1st - Ian Jessee - Trimble, MO - 36 feet
2nd - William Klausmeyer - Wichita, KA - 50 feet
3rd - Madeline Jones - Webb City, MO - 74 feet

For the adult fliers there was a contest for the "Biggest, Baddest, Highest Flying Rocket of the Meet".  The prize was $50 to the flier that got the highest altitude of the meet on any impulse motor.  This contest was sponsored by KBVL Hot 103.9 FM, the "biggest dog in the yard".  The winner of this contest was Chuck Pauler of Wichita, KS with an altitude of 10,550ft.

Motors flown by class:

1/2 A - 17
A - 23
B - 61
C - 73
D - 20
E - 7
F - 15
G - 16
H - 5
I - 5
J - 7
K - 5

Total - 255

We also had an ongoing raffle each day for rocket kits.  Over 80 kits were given out to young rocketeers.

There were some raffles for the high power fliers and those details will be posted soon.

Keep on the lookout for Prairie Thunder II next June.  It should be bigger and better than this year.

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