Quote from Eric Becher on January 17, 2026, 12:21 pm

Hey CENJARS flyers!

Over the Memorial Day weekend this May there will be a big launch event up in Geneseo, NY (about 6 hrs northwest of our field). The event is "National Sport Launch - East" (NSL-East), which is a NAR event, and hosted by the Monroe Astronautical Rocket Society (MARS) club. The field is a WWII museum/airfield, with a ceiling of 8,000ft. So this will be a big event with rockets of all sizes! The event runs Saturday thru Monday, including a night launch on Saturday night. Website and registration info here: https://marsclub.org/welcome-to-nsle-2026/

Note that the MARS club is offering a reduced registration fee for a few weeks, PLUS a FREE rocket kit from Fliskit - but only for the first 50 registered. So if you want that deal, get on it ASAP!

A number of CENJARS members are already registered and planning to attend. The last couple of years we have gone up to URRG, not too far away from this location, but we are looking to change it up a bit. It should be a fun weekend. Aside from the rockets, there is the National Warplane Museum at that location, and it is just a nice area of NY to wander around. I'm sure there will be other Memorial Weekend events in the region as well. So if you are so inclined, it should be a great weekend with lots of BIG rockets flying. You can spectate, but there will also be lots of the "smaller" rockets like we have at our field too, so don't be shy about bringing those up there and flying them. Some of us also have hotel reservations at the "Hampton Inn Geneseo" if anyone would like to meet up.

Hope to see plenty of CENJARS members up there!