Long Island Rocket Club?
For anyone who lives in NYC, or on Long Island:
I have been exchanging posts via "The Rocketry Forum" with a young man on Long Island. He wishes to start a rocket club, but is in need of some support. Mostly some advice and guidance/mentoring. He is searching for a field to use, but being from central Nassau County, that's not easy. But he's trying. What he also needs are a few NAR members to serve as Mentors, and to qualify the Club for NAR affiliation (and thus insurance coverage for the club).
I know we have a few members from Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. If you think you can make it out to Nassau County, or wherever he locates a field, and you wish to help a young man get a club going, support his (and others') future, expand the hobby to an under-served area (currently no active clubs on LI that I know of), and provide yourself with another time/place to launch, please consider helping him out.
His post on TRF is here. To read and post, you will have to sign up for TRF, but you don't have to pay or donate to do so. Once you sign up, and read his post, you can reply publicly, or send him a private message to start the ball rolling.
And if someone here does get it going, let me know. I can't attend there regularly, but I do have family on LI, so I could probably attend an occasional launch or two!
Thanks!
Used to be LIARS (Long Island Amateur Rocketry Society, IIRC) on Long Island. Not sure where on LI and I'm not well versed in the LI geography.
Yes, someone on TRF mentioned LIARS (love that name!) but that they went defunct some years ago with their members going to METRA. That would tell me they were possibly based more toward the western half of LI, however there isn't a ton of open space in that area. The land and farms are all out east. And out there, if it isn't an active farm or airfield, it is mostly houses and pine barren like topography. So I don't know how successful they will be, but you never know. A lot of people on LI. I'm sure it could support a club like CENJARS... if they had the right field.
Jon Walcott lives in Hampton Bays. He often comments about flying his rockets out on the old Grumman property. I'll have to lookup the poster on that TRF thread and suggest that he get in contact with Jon.
FWIW, Jon flies with METRA.