CENJARS

Although there was a light turn-out due to the forecasted bad weather, the launch was still held. The winds not the rain became the challenge. Below are the results per Jose from Heavenly Hobbies who sponsored the event:

“The severely weathercocked flights imposed by the windy conditions were no match for Charlie Kirlew, as he was declared victorious in the C-class egglofter duration competition. Staying true to his C6 engines, Charlie used a double-parachute approach that brought the fragile payload to safety every time. Although his second flight almost ended in a “DQ”, Charlie persevered and wrestled his model out of the mouth of a rocket-eating tree to clinch the title with a total time aloft of 40.0 seconds. The winner’s prize was the popular Estes Snitch, a much sought after OOP model. Hannah Blank came in second place with a total time aloft of 11 seconds.”

We will get back to you about whether we will continue the contest with the D engines or not. Also our next launch is currently scheduled for July 4th… We may want to move it out a week… let us know if you would attend or not if it is held on the 4th. Otherwise I will put in a request for the following Sunday July 11th.

Congrats to the winners!

Noon at the 18th avenue location. Egg contest will be first.

Our next club launch will be this Sunday at Noon on JUNE 6th at the 18th Avenue location.

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In support of TARC, Heavenly Hobbies is sponsoring a C-class and D-class egg-loft duration contest at our launch scheduled for May 6th at noon. The idea is to fly a rocket containing a USDA LARGE egg, keeping it in the air as long as possible. Since durations are affected by air currents, each contestant will have to fly his/her entry twice. The highest total duration (in each engine class) wins a prize.

Rules:

• Any egg-lofter model is acceptable (scratch-built or commercial kit).
• Only commercially available, NAR-certified engines are acceptable.
• A participant may have more than one entry (rocket).
• Each entry (rocket) requires a distinct egg.
• You may only fly an egg provided by Heavenly Hobbies.
• No alterations of the egg are allowed (e.g., no taping, gluing or fiber-glassing the egg)
• An bona-fide flight is one that clears the launch rod under thrust.

The following events will result in disqualification:

• A bona-fide flight for which the rocket is not returned to the judges after landing.
• A bona-fide flight for which the rocket cannot be safely flown again.
• A bona-fide flight that results in a cracked egg.
• An entry that successfully completes one flight, but not the second, will be assigned a duration of Zero for the second flight.

The duration corresponding to a bone-fide flights not resulting in disqualification will be judged solely by Heavenly Hobbies.

The judges’ decisions are final.

Prizes:

• C-class (juvenile): Edmond’s Gemini rocket glider
• C-class (adult): Estes Snitch RTF saucer
• D-class (juvenile): Estes R/C airplane
• D-class (adult): Northern Industrial Rotary Tool Kit

Entry fee: $1.00 per rocket entered paid to Heavenly Hobbies

If you need any supplies or a ready built egg rocket contact Jose at Heavenly Hobbies. He will also have some built egg rockets for sale at the launch for those of you that want to participate. Please let him know ahead of time so he has enough of these built.

The space shuttle Atlantis is back on Earth, and its flying career is over.

Atlantis and its six-man crew landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday morning. Marking the end of Atlantis’ 25 years of service. Only two shuttle missions remain, by NASA’s two other spaceships. The space agency would like Atlantis to return to theInternational Space Station next June. But that’s not in the cards unless the White House grants a reprieve.

The space station construction mission boosted Atlantis’ mileage to just over 120 million miles, accumulated over 32 flights. It was a successful last ride for Atlantis. The shuttle and its astronauts left the outpost bigger and more powerful, adding a new compartment and fresh batteries.

At our last launch we had the Klock family join our club. Michael and Joseph pictured below had a BLAST, literally!

Welcome aboard.

If you have any pictures from the last launch send them to me.