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ZOG-43 Volume 24 Number 3 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF NARHAMS SECTION #139 2001 NAR NATIONAL CHAMPION SECTION ZZOOGG--4433 MMaarrcchh 22000022 Tom Anderson asks Ward Poole, “Aren’t you a little short for a storm trooper?” Photo by Paul Miller. IN THIS EDITION - February Sport Launch Report - Jim Filler Gets What He Deserves - Space News - And MORE! THE ONLY NAR NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED MONTHLY!! THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF NARHAMS SECTION #139 2001 NAR NATIONAL CHAMPION SECTION ZOG-43 ZOG ROYAL COURT Volume 24 Number 3 ( NARHAMS OFFICERS ) March 2002 KING ZOG (President) ZOG FORTY-THREE is the official newsletter of NARHAMS the National Association of Rocketry Headquarters Astro Don Brown------------------410-781-7539 Modeling Section # 139 PRINCE ZOG (Vice-President) NARHAMS is the oldest model rocket club in the Alan Holmes -------------- 301-670-0887 United States ! ! ! COLLECTOR OF THE ZOG- Forty-Three is dedicated to model rocketeers of all ages, abilities, and interest. We are committed to providing the ROYAL TAXES (Treasurer) most current, up-to date information on model and real world rocketry, and to provide educational material as well as Ed Pearson --------------- 301-577-7775 entertaining information. ZOG FORTY-THREE is published monthly and is available to anyone on a subscription basis. KEEPER OF THE HOLY Current rate is $15 U.S. Funds for 12 issues a year, payable to WORDS ( Secretary ) NARHAMS Chris Kidwell-------------- 571-434-7507 Material in ZOG Forty-Three is not copyrighted. Free and unlimited reproduction is granted with the proper credit to the COURT JESTER (Section Advisor) author and/or ZOG Forty-Three. Khim Bittle --------------- 301-293-2399 For more information..... if you have any questions about ZOG Forty-Three or NARHAMS, or if you have any comment(s), correspondence, free merchandise or if you’d like to submit an article, send NARHAMS serves Baltimore, the state of Md., Washington them to : DC and the surrounding Metropolitan areas. The club is a section of the National Association of Model Rocketry (NAR) ZOG Forty-Three and we are the oldest continuously active model rocket club in 10340 Hickory Ridge Rd, Apt. 526 the United States, first established as a high school club in 1963, changing our name to NARHAMS when chartered as a Columbia, Md. 21055 NAR section in 1965. NARHAMS is the only four time E-Mail [email protected] winner of the NAR “Section of the Year” award. ZOG Forty-Three is edited by Kevin Johnson, and is a six- Years won: 1997,1998,1999, 2001 time winner of the NAR/LAC “Rockwell” Trophy, NARHAMS members regularly fly their model rockets at recognized as the best NAR section newsletter. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on Soil Conservation Years won: 1969, 1973, 1975, 1990, 1991, & 1992 Rd. in Greenbelt Md. The launches are open to the public and are held every first and third Sundays of every month (weather Zog-43 staff typist is none other then Jennifer Ash-Poole a.k.a. permitting), starting at 1 PM. Sport Launches are usually held Secretary to the Stars ! the second Saturday of every month at Middletown Recreation Photographers: Jennifer Ash-Poole, John McCoy, Paul Miller Park in Middletown Md. Check the web page for updates. and Mark Petrovich NARHAMS welcomes all prospective new members to our ZOG-43 monthly meetings. They are held on the first Friday of the month from 7:30 to 9:30 PM at the College Park Airport Is produced on a 233mhz Pentium processor computer using Annex Building. Dues are 10 cents a week, with an initial 50 Microsoft Word. Masters are printed on a HP-712c and sent to cents up front (good for 5 weeks) as a sign of good faith. Kinko’s in Columbia Md. for duplication. NEW: Monthly meetings available on-line via chat-room , This Edition: 45 copies simply go to the NARHAMS homepage and click on the link. NARHAMS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB Directions to College Park Airport: http://www.narhams.org Follow I-495 to Kenilworth Ave. South. Make a right onto Send and receive E-mail with other NARHAMS members Paint Branch Parkway, then make a right on Cpl. Frank S. through NARHAMS Web page grouplist via yahoo-groups. Scott Dr. At the airport entrance go straight to the Operations building, the annex building is adjacent to the “Ops” building. THE ONLY NAR NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED MONTHLY!! ZOG-FORTY-THREE VOLUME 24 EDITION 3 NARHAMS MODEL ROCKET CLUB # 139 King Zog’s Message LAUNCH WINDOWS Spring is in the air and the regular flying season is upon us. However, this winter has been very gentle and there has been some remarkable flying weather. February’s “Love Your SPORT LAUNCH Groundhog” sport launch was blessed with some great Pot-o-Gold Spot Landing contest (with prizes!) weather for that time of year and a good time was had by all. Middletown Park A full launch report appears in this issue. March 9th 10am-4pm Thanks go to Kevin Johnson for arranging the tour of the Garber Facility on February 23rd. It was an enjoyable and informative outing that was well attended by the club and its friends. SPORT LAUNCH/OPEN MEET Continuing with our themes for sport launches, March 9th OPOSSUM-6 Don Brown, CD will be the “Pot of Gold” spot landing event with prizes. Bring Events are: B Super-Roc Duration out your rockets (any type) and try to land them in the 1/4A Rocket Glider Duration McCoys’ pot of “gold”. It was a fun event last year and 1/2A Helicopter Duration promises to be just as good this year. Of course, the range will 1/2A Parachute Duration be open for sport flying so come on out and burn some black Middletown Park powder with us. April 13th 10am-4pm As I look over the calendar for the year I can’t help but be impressed by the large number of activities that our club supports. Even more amazing is the fact that club members SPORT LAUNCH continue to approach me with new ideas for outreach in CANCELLED! addition to what we already do. Every member is encouraged May 11th 10am-4pm to support as many activities as you can and take advantage of our opportunities to fly rockets. The more, the merrier, whether at a building session, meeting or rocket launch. After a lot of exhausting work by the committee the REGIONAL MEET revisions to our constitution will be presented in their final ECRM-29 Jim Filler, CD (we hope) form at the March business meeting. Please review Events are: C Dual Eggloft Altitude them carefully so that we can finalize this effort with a vote as (no Estes or Quest C6 motors allowed) soon as possible. Our goal is not to tie up the meetings with Plastic Model Conversion lengthy discussions over the revisions, but reach a timely (must fly first, surviving entries will be judged) agreement on this new document so that we can keep focused 1/4A Rocket Glider Duration on rocket-related activities. Open Spot Landing I would like to thank all of the club members who have Middletown Park helped me out in my first 5 months in office. I have some big May 18th and 19th 10am-4pm shoes to fill and hope that I am serving you well. If you have any suggestions on how I can do a better job for you, please do not hesitate to let me know. Yours truly, ALL SUNDAY LAUNCHES AT THE GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER King Zog VISITORS CENTER ARE CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. The Goddard Visitor Center will likely not be reopening to the public. Feel free to contact your Congressional From the Editor: representative or other government officials and express Please note that a motor restriction has been placed on all C your feelings toward the loss of this great resource. In the Dual Eggloft flights at ECRM. No Quest or Estes C6 motors meantime, we are working to secure an alternate launch will be allowed to fly CDEL this year. Khim Bittle has site to hold monthly launches in place of those that were compiled a list of acceptable alternative motors in this issue. previously at Goddard. Also in this issue, Paul Miller describes how to spend quality time with his grandson as well as telling us how he and Garrett built the Estes Polaris. Ole Ed sent in his musings on history, I raided the NARHAMS Archives for a B/C boost glider plan (NARAM is right around the corner!) for this month, as well. Keep those articles and photos coming! Kevin ZOG-FORTY-THREE VOLUME 24 EDITION 3 NARHAMS MODEL ROCKET CLUB # 139 John Glenn and Vanguard which he kept for decades and his most recent second flight into space—this time aboard the space shuttle. Some Memories by Ole Ed Standing there in the lobby, I felt good. Remembering space Everyone has childhood memories. I would like to share a history? Naw, I had just come from the lobby’s ATM and couple that were triggered a couple weeks back while I stood now had enough money for lunch. I headed outside into the in the lobby of NASA headquarters. I paused in front of an cold air and left NASA behind. exhibit commemorating the flight of John Glenn when I realized that the day was February 20, exactly 40 years ago when Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. The memories came back. Astronauts going up were NARHAMS Recognizes Jim Filler uncommon then and the televisions would interrupt their By Don Brown normal shows to give you coverage.
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