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2018 LAC North American Rockwell Newsletter Award T OTAL I MPULSE V OLUME 1 9 , N O . 4 JULY—AUGUST 2019 Inside This Issue: VIEW FROM THE FLIGHT LINE APOLLO 11 MEMORIES REVISTING AN OLD FLAME Article: Page Adventures With Rockets 3 July Sport Launch 4 AAM-N-2 Sparrow I Missile 7 Ridgid Tube Cutter 10 View From The Flight Line 11 Apollo 11 Memories 12 Competition Corner 16 Current Events in Space Exploration 17 This Month in Aerospace History 20 Launch Windows 24 Vendor News 25 Our Members in the Field 26 Bonus Page 27 AAM-N-2 Sparrow I RIDGID TUBING CUTTER T OTAL I MPULSE V OLUME 1 9 , N O . 4 P a g e 2 CLUB OFFICERS President: Scott Miller Vice President: Roger Sadowsky Treasurer: Tony Haga Secretary: Rob Dickinson Editor / NAR Advisor: Buzz Nau Communications: Dan Harrison Board of Director: Dale Hodgson Board of Director: Bob Dickinson Board of Director: Mark Chrumka As I write this on the 50th Anniversary of The Apollo 11 mission happened before I MEMBERSHIP the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing I am thor- was born but it has been a major impact on To become a member of the Jackson Model Rocketry Club and Huron Valley Rocket Society oughly amazed at the amount of coverage my life along with the precursors that led means becoming a part of our family. We have the event has garnered this past week. It is up to this amazing accomplishment. I have monthly launches and participate in many edu- inspiring to see Michael Collins and Buzz read numerous biographies, autobiog- cational events. We encourage our members to Aldrin seemingly interviewed non-stop, raphies, and have several technical refer- actively participate in our club projects, running segments of the mission streaming online, ence manuals just to learn about all the for office in our annual elections, contributing to and a never ending list of long and short systems used, their advancement over the our monthly newsletter with articles or tips, and documentaries that will keep us busy with offering services to the club in their area of ex- viewing material for weeks. Take ad- years, and all the people involved. When I pertise. We have many members comprised of vantage of all this Apollo coverage espe- turned 16 I started volunteering at the children, men, women, professionals, lay people, Michigan Space and Science Center log- educators and people from many other walks of cially on YouTube. In particular, there is a life. great four part documentary, Apollo 11: ging hundreds of hours assisting with the You may fill out an application at a launch or What We Saw that I highly recommend. various camps and programs that were request an application from one of our board Equally inspiring is the accomplishments offered at the museum. A short time later I members at [email protected] and mail and direction we are seeing in present day developed an outreach program to travel it along with a check for the annual membership around to other schools, scouting groups, dues ($30.00 individual or $40.00 family) to our NASA and private ventures like SpaceX mailing address: and Blue Origin. SpaceX in particular has etc. teach my physics program that includ- had another successful Falcon Heavy mis- ed a rocket build/fly session for the entire JMRC/HUVARS sion and solved the Crew Dragon Abort group. This program enabled me to gradu- C/O Rob Dickinson Test Anomaly. With everything new going ate High School a semester early and fo- 5059 Okemos Rd on now I am almost…. almost as excited cus on the program all around Michigan. I East Lansing MI 48823 as I was in the summer of 1969 even had the privilege of giving a presenta- Members enjoy no launch fees, participating in tion to the entire Dibble Elementary school and Al Worden’s family who still resides in club projects, and meeting an incredible group of About Total Impulse positive people. Jackson, MI about the space program and Total Impulse is the official newsletter of the Al’s specific accomplishments most notable Jackson Model Rocket Club (JMRC), Tripoli COMM CHANNELS as CMP of Apollo 15. There are several ways to keep in touch with the Prefecture 96, NAR Section 620. Published Bi- JMRC/HUVARS and it’s members. Monthly, Total Impulse is a space-modeling One day after teaching an overnight camp newsletter devoted to representing the diversity at the space center I was asked if I would Website: http://www.jmrconline.org. Information of interests in today’s hobby of model rocketry. be interested in getting a free high power includes directions to launch sites & schedule, This newsletter is in the public domain except rocket kit to participate in the first ever range procedures, and instructions on how to where otherwise marked. Unmarked articles, Rockets for Schools program… there was join the club. photographs, and drawings may be re-printed elsewhere, but credit to the author and this one condition we had to start a rocket club. Groups.io: The JMRC groups.io site is a place newsletter is expected. Material marked as copy- I’m not sure how long I waited before I to share files and also serves as our primary e- righted may not be re-printed without the con- called Roger Sadowsky (who also worked mail list serv. Follow this link to join, sent of the author. at the Space Center) to see if he was inter- https://groups.io/g/jmrc The editor of Total Impulse accepts material for ested but I’m guessing the time could be inclusion from anyone. Facebook: If you have a FaceBook account measured in seconds, and it only took a search for “Jackson Model Rocket Club JMRC” Send correspondence to: few more seconds before Roger agreed � . and request to be added. Jackson Model Rocket Club Looking back now I think the intent was to Buzz Nau, Editor GroupMe: Our new chat channel for broadcast- start a school program, but why limit it to a ing notifications instantly using a free download E-mail: [email protected] school only activity when we can develop a client for IOS and Droid as well as by SMS text club that can include everyone! This be- messaging. You can join the notification chat Launch/Event Calendar - 2019 came the birth of the Jackson Model Rock- after creating a free account and following this • April 13th (MIS) etry Club that flew its first high power rock- link, • May 4th (TBD) et on May 5/6, 1996 at a launch in She- https://groupme.com/join_group/28013422/zc5IC1 • CrapShoot VI - May 25,26 (Muskegon) boygan, WI during the first annual Rockets • June 15th (MIS) for Schools program. http:// • July 13th (MIS) Fade To Black Rocket Works • NARAM 61 - July 27 - August 3 (Muncie, IN) www.rockets4schools.org/ . Heavy Duty Launch Pads For Every Need • August 17th (MIS) All pads are powder coated for lasting durability • September 14th (MIS) Continued on page 16 • October 12th (TBD) https://www.facebook.com/fziegler13/ • November 9th (TBD) On the Cover: Concept Mini $119 Concept X-treme $325 NOTE: Launch dates are subject to change without notice. (top left) Dale Hodgson and his upscale Big Bertha (top Concept $285 Ground Pounder $345 right) Apollo 11 liftoff on July 16, 1969 (bottom left) Be sure to call the “launch hotline” at 517.262.0510 for the Rigid tube cutter (bottom right) AAM-N-2 Sparrow I air- TARC Pad $285 Ground Pounder Heavy $425 latest weather and field information or sign up for the JMRC to-air missile under the wing of a VX-4 F7U Cutlass - +Shipping Notification GroupMe chat. Vought photo T OTAL I MPULSE V OLUME 1 9 , N O . 4 P a g e 3 DaveDave Glover Glover The Dearborn Heights Library hosts Summer programs and requested assistance from JMRC/HUVARS to facilitate “Adventures With Rockets” on Tuesday evening, 9 July 2019. The event took place at Van Houten Park on the soc- cer field and included static displays as well as several launches. Tony Haga, Sarah Glover, and I set up one low power launch rack and a display of model & high power rockets for people to check out. We launched a number of rockets giving nearly every- one a chance to push the launch but- ton. Due to the size of the soccer field, launches were limited to mostly A & B en- gines with a few C's. Three rockets tation and kept the kids in order while Sarah and I loaded ended up landing in one rocket after another for a good hour plus, and we en- areas we could not listed a number of the kids to retrieve rockets while hearing retrieve, one of which the three of us chorus "Don't Touch the Motor – It's HOT". ended up in a tree just out of reach. We could not have done this without the assistance of the Tony's "Snitch" got most of the workload, as did my "Planet National Honor Society members from the High School Probe" and "Quinstar", all staying within the field of who carried ALL of our supplies, rockets, tables & chairs play. We flew rockets Sarah built when she was 12 and from a parking lot onto the soccer field, then back at the lost one to a neighbor's yard. A "C" motor was not the right choice for my "50th Anniversary Alpha", which ended up on end of the day. the athletic fields behind a locked fence. My Estes "Fletcher" failed to deploy its parachute on its second flight Jim Moir, Youth Services Librarian and Jennifer Wyatt- and now has a 30 degree bend in the middle.
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