2025 large launches
For anyone that like to travel a bit to the bigger fields/launches, there are 2 coming up in 2025 that a few of us are hoping/planning to attend:
- MDRA's "Red Glare" event. MDRA flies on a farm field on the Delmarva peninsula. Word is this will happen March 28-30 (Friday-Sunday). Stay tuned to their website for details and registration: https://mdrocketry.org/ (Note that their website will be getting a redesign any day now, so it may not be up to date yet.) This field is about 2.5-3hrs drive from our field in Wall.
- "URRF 10" ("Upstate Research Rocketry Festival") at URRG ("Upstate Research Rocketry Group") in the upstate NY finger lakes region (Penn Yan, NY), to be held June 20-22 (Friday-Sunday). Many of us attended LDRS last summer. This is a similar event, but not as large. Same place (about 5-6hrs north of our field). Same club running it: https://urrg.us/ (Note that this event was recently pushed back by 2 weeks from it's traditionally scheduled date.)
Caveat - after too much rain last summer at LDRS, some of us have made hotel arrangements that can be cancelled up to the last few days before. If it looks like a wet weekend (or any other bad weather), we do not plan to make the trip to slog through mud. But hotel reservations do get scarce as these events approach, so if you think you might attend and stay overnight, best make arrangements sooner rather than later.
But if conditions are favorable, you will see a lot of rockets flying at these events, from the smaller one that we fly at CENJARS, to the big Level 3 ones that are always an impressive sight!