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NOVAAR Newsletter Inside this Issue Calendar.............................2 September Activities ........3 October Activities.............4 Upcoming Meetings and Events .........................7 3-D Glider..........................8 A Visit to the Titan Missile Museum..............14 SpaceShipOne Captures X-Prize .............11 From the Editor...............13 Pictures from the November Launch..........14 Frank Prekel’s Phoenix takes to the sky on a D12-5 at NARAM 46. photo taken from the “NARAM live” website -- www.naramlive.com/ Section 205 NOVAAR Free Press ÷ NOVAAR Free Press ø September – October 2004 November 2004 This is the official newsletter of the Northern Virginia SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT Association of Rocketry (NOVAAR), Section 205 of the National Association of Rocketry (NAR). This newsletter is a benefit of being 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 Will Rodgers a member – You are a member, aren’t you? NOVAAR NOVAAR Meeting Day Launch ÷ Section Officers ø President:......................John Hochheimer 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [email protected] Veteran’s Day Secretary:......................Trip Barber [email protected] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 NOVAAR Treasurer:....................Keith Wancowicz Meeting [email protected] Senior Advisor: ............Ken Brown 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 [email protected] NOVAAR Thanksgiving Acadian Day Day (LA) ÷ Membership and Dues ø Build Ses. To maintain the clubs launch equipment, pay for our website, and 28 29 30 JF Kennedy produce this newsletter we collect dues. Dues are collected annually Day (MA) and are; $5 for members age 13 and younger, $8 for members age 14 to 18 and $10 for everyone else. A membership application can be found at many local hobby shops and on our website. December 2004 ÷ Meetings ø SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT NOVAAR holds meetings on the first and third Tuesday of the month, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, at the King’s Park Community 1 2 3 4 Center in Springfield, VA. The most current topics to be discussed and directions to our meeting room can be found on our website. ÷ Build Sessions ø 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NOVAAR Hanukkah NOVAAR Once a month, on the third Sunday of the month from 1:00 pm to Meeting Begins Launch 5:00 pm, at the King’s Park Community Center, the club gets together to build rockets and share construction techniques. The 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 most current schedule and directions to our meeting room can be Bill of Rights Wright found on our website. Day Brother’s Day ÷ Launches ø 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NOVAAR conducts monthly launches at Great Meadow which is NOVAAR NOVAAR Federal Christmas located in The Plains, VA – approximately 50 minutes south of Party Meeting Holiday Day Washington DC on Route 66. Launches start at 9 am and run until 26 27 28 29 30 31 5 pm (4 pm during the winter). The most current schedule and Kwanzaa Federal directions to Great Meadow can be found on our website. Begins Holiday There is no charge to fly at club launches (motor sizes A to F). However, there is a $5 charge to launch high-powered rockets (motor sizes G to I -- the field is not large enough for bigger January 2005 motors). AND, you don’t have to be a member to fly with us. SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT Though, after you meet us and, realize that we don’t bite – as long as we take our medication – we know you will want to join. 1 New Years If weather threatens the launch day, our website will report the Day status of the launch by 8:00 pm the day before. ÷ Website ø 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NOVAAR NOVAAR www.novaar.org Meeting Launch The club’s website is where the most current information about future club activities can be found. The site is maintained by... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Webmaster: ..................Dan Winings [email protected] ÷ Newsletter ø 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 NOVAAR ML King NOVAAR The club’s newsletter is published 6 times a year or, as close to Build Ses. Holiday. Meeting that schedule that is humanly possible for the editor to achieve. The newsletter reports on the club’s activities and features articles 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 written by club members about their endeavors within the Model Rocketry Hobby. The articles include, but are not limited to, topics on sport rocketry, competitive rocketry and high-powered rocketry. 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 Send submissions to ... NOVAAR Editor:........................... Frank Prekel Meeting [email protected] Page 2 of 14 u September – October 2004 NOVAAR Free Press September 7th Meeting September 18th October and November Build Sessions Ivan Arrives, Launch Cancelled Planned Hurricane Ivan arrived in Mobile, AL at 04:30 am on At this meeting, Bart Merkley proposed and, the club September 16, 2004. Once ashore, this category 4 hurricane members in attendance accepted, that the club should select with sustained winds exceeding 60 miles per hour, began to and fund the construction of two high-powered dominate the nations weather for the next 6 days. rockets. The construction of these two rockets would be a club construction project and would be accomplished at the club’s monthly build sessions at the King’s Park Community Center. The proposal was for the club to acquire a few rockets that would fly dramatically – “low, slow with lots of noise and smoke” –and could be used for demonstration flights, specifically the 4th of July at Great Meadow. Two different rockets were proposed and accepted. First-up a “Wocket” from PoleCat Aerospace (formally Skunk Works Rocketry www.polecataerospace.com). This is a 24” saucer. One of the parameters for rocket selection was the desire to find something NOAA GOES-EastInfra Redl Image – 16SEP04 @ 0315 local slow that the spectators could watch fly. A 2 -- image from www.goes.noaa.gov foot wide saucer fits the bill quite nicely. And, with the addition of an appropriate With NOVAAR’s Sport Launch scheduled for Saturday, September 18th, all eyes turned to the sky. The local forecasts motor, this rocket would be very loud and called for heavy rains and high winds for the weekend. smokey. Polecat Aerospace “Wocket” image from Polecat Aerospace website The second rocket will be a “I-Roc” from Loc/Precision (www.locprecision.com/ ). This rocket is 55” long and 5.5” in diameter and is designed to fly on G, H, I or J motors. Also discussed was a boost/rocket glider. Hurricane Ivan as seen by the International Space Station Immediately the image of an “H” powered -- image from spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew- Edmunds Aerospace Deltie danced through 9/html/iss009e22187.html everyone’s mind. Championed by Rob The word arrived via email Thursday morning; “Hurricane Edmunds and supported by the attending Ivan is forecast to be right on top of us Saturday, September members, It was decided that a large 18, and that is the day our next launch is scheduled. We do not boost/rocket glider would be constructed after have access to the field on Sunday (there is an equestrian the Wocket and I-Roc are completed. event) and the forecast for that day is windy anyway, so The construction of the Wocket we must cancel the scheduled NOVAAR launch altogether and I-Roc were scheduled for the for this weekend.” October and November build The average total rainfall in the DC Metro area on sessions. Construction of the Saturday was 6”. On Sunday, the sky cleared, temperatures glider has been scheduled to and humidity dropped and there was a “gentle” 12 mph wind, begin in January if construction the other with gusts to 20. Because of the scheduled equestrian event at two was completed. Great Meadow the field would not be available until LOC/Precision “I-Roc” November. image from LOC/Precision website September – October 2004 u Page 3 of 14 NOVAAR Free Press September 19th Build Session Cancelled The presentation concluded with a discussion of the th ingredients used as propellants and the classification of those The building session originally scheduled for September 19 materials by the Federal Government. was cancelled because of the sport launch scheduled for the th 18 . th th st October 9 and 10 September 21 Meeting Steel City Smoke Trails The Journey to Level 3 Certification A club launch was not scheduled in October because of After the business portion of the meeting was completed, equestrian commitments at Great Meadow. However, an Bill Schworer discussed his quest to achieve his Level 3 opportunity to fly and compete was presented by a combined Certification. NAR Regional Competition and Tripoli High Power launch at One of Bill’s motivations was his desire for a new challenge. Tripoli Pittsburgh's "Dragon's Fire" launch site. The project would require him to learn how to build a rocket using fiberglass, carbon fiber and substantial woodwork. And apply them in the construction of the large and heavy rockets that can withstand the 300 to 700 pounds of trust generated by an “M” motor that may burn for 2½ to 5 seconds to altitudes of 1 to 2 miles. To achieve his certification, 3 flights were required. The first entered a descending ceiling and was DQ’ed after the rocket entered the layer of clouds. The second flight was DQ’ed The event was hosted by the Pittsburgh Space Command when the rocket, having completed its flight and was returning (NAR Section 473 and TRA Prefecture 1).
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