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THOR's Hammer Contents Space Shuttle Atlantis – Page 3 Nebraska Heat 10 – Page 4 Nebraska Heat Rocket–Page 16 NASA Space Place – Page 18 THOR’s Hammer The official newsletter of The Heartland Organization of Rocketry! Meeting Minutes – Page 19 Summer 2007 ---FREE--- Volume 14 Number 3 Joe Michel (right) presents his 2.6x upscale of the Estes Orbital Transport to Kevin Trojanowski after its successful flight at Nebraska Heat 10. (Richard Burney) THOR’s Hammer – Summer 2007 1 Club Officers September - November 2007 Calendar PRESIDENT – Greg Rothman September Phone Number: (402) 891-5706 Event: Low Power Launch. E-mail: [email protected] When: Sunday the 2nd, Noon to ? Where: 1100 Lincoln Road, Papillion, NE. VICE PRESIDENT – Nathan Warner Fee: Free. Phone Number: N/A Description: Low power sport flying. E-mail: [email protected] Event: September Meeting. TREASURER – Thomas Kernes When: Tuesday the 4th, 7:00 to 10:00 PM. Phone Number: N/A Where: La Vista Community Center. E-mail: [email protected] Event: Balls 16 SECRETARY – Richard Burney When: Friday the 28th through Sunday the 30th. Phone Number: (402) 681-6337 Where: Black Rock Desert, NV. E-mail: [email protected] Description: The big, national, experimental high power rocket launch of the year! TRA NEBRASKA PREFECT – Kevin Trojanowski For More Information: http://www.balls16.com/ Phone Number: (402) 292-4101 E-mail: [email protected] Event: High Power Launch. When: Saturday the 15th, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. NAR SECTION #562 LEADER – Greg Rothman Where: Pickrell, NE. Ceiling: 15,000’ MSL (13,650’ AGL). Window to 23,000’ MSL possible with 72+ hour advance notice. Fee: $5. Newsletter Editor - Richard Burney Description: High power and low power sport flying. For More Information: Check the rocketry hotline for any delays or cancellations if weather looks questionable. THOR Rocketry Hotline October Event: October Meeting. When: Tuesday the 2nd, 7:00 to 10:00 PM. Where: La Vista Community Center. (402) 505-3721 Event: Low Power Launch. When: Sunday the 7th, Noon to ? Where: 1100 Lincoln Road, Papillion, NE. Internet Links of Interest Fee: Free. Description: Low power sport flying. http://www.nerocketry.org/ THOR’s official web page. Has information on our club, Event: Bob 2. launch dates, and history. When: Experimental day on Friday the 19th. High power commercial flying on Saturday the 20th and Sunday the http://www.tripoli.org/ 21st, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Noon to 5:00 on Friday). Home page for the Tripoli Rocketry Association. Where: Pickrell, NE. Ceiling: 15,000’ MSL (13,650’ AGL). Window to 23,000’ http://www.nar.org/index.html MSL possible with 72+ hour advance notice. Home page for the National Association of Rocketry. Fee: $10 for 1 day, $15 for 2; EX day is free. Description: THOR’s new annual three-day, high power, http://www.rocketryonline.com/ fall launch. Rocketry Online is an excellent source of model and high For More Information: Final details will be set by the power rocketry related news and information. October meeting. http://www.the-rocketman.com/ Producer of some very excellent parachutes and rocket November Event: Low Power Launch. gear. Ky has been a long time supporter of THOR. th When: Sunday the 4 , Noon to ? http://www.giantleaprocketry.com/ Where: 1100 Lincoln Road, Papillion, NE. Giant Leap Rocketry has been THOR’s main vendor at our Fee: Free. high power launches since 2002. Description: Low power sport flying. Event: November Meeting. http://www.kloudbusters.org/ th Home page for the K.L.O.U.D.Busters Tripoli Prefecture of When: Tuesday the 6 , 7:00 to 10:00 PM. the state of Kansas. Where: La Vista Community Center. THOR’s Hammer – Summer 2007 2 when Columbia stopped here around 1985. For Space Shuttle Atlantis those of us in the Omaha area, this was obviously a Article and pictures by Richard Burney very great opportunity to personally see one of these spacecraft. Within an hour of finding out about this development, I was able to get on base thanks to th On Sunday July 1st, Space Shuttle Atlantis one of my friends from the 55 RW and get some made a one day stop over at Offutt Air Force Base pictures (thanks, Daniel!). I also understand that a due to bad weather in Florida. The only other time few other THOR members were able to see it too.Ô one of the Shuttles made a stop over at Offutt was Space Shuttle Atlantis on its special 747 carrier with Offutt’s control tower in the background. Another view of Atlantis. Charring of the underside and browning of the white areas were obvious signs that Atlantis had just recently been into space and had gone through reentry. THOR’s Hammer – Summer 2007 3 Nebraska Heat 10 Friday June 15th… Article by Richard Burney Pictures by Richard Burney, Rick Bosworth, and Bill As with our past Nebraska Heats, Friday Richardson was our designated Tripoli Research/Experimental flying day. Members who were there to either fly or were there just to watch started arriving during the (Note: This article along with plenty of pictures will late morning and early afternoon. Setup of the appear in the November/December 2007 issue of launch range and pads started around 12:30 and the Rockets magazine. This issue can be obtained via first flight took place just over an hour later. Three full subscription or as an individual back issue.) of THOR’s members flew a total of four flights that afternoon. Motors burned were as follows: G – 1, I Nebraska Heat – 10 and 10… – 1, J – 1, K – 1. Ironically, all the flights on our “Research” day were all commercial AeroTech and The summer of 2007 marked a number of Animal Motor Works motors! The flying conditions anniversaries for the “Nebraska Heat” name. Ten were pretty good that day. It was mostly sunny with years ago at LDRS 16 at Hartsel, Colorado, the a mix of clouds throughout the day with a high in the Tripoli Nebraska Prefecture, led up by Bruce Lee, low 90’s. Winds were in the 5 to 10 MPH range out flew a nine-motor clustered rocket which our team of the south/southeast. A portable weather station had christened Nebraska Heat. The rocket was provided by THOR member Doug Buhrman helped launched into the Colorado skies on a cluster of four keep track of temperature and wind speed and AeroTech J261’s followed by the immediate air- direction throughout the weekend. starting of a single AeroTech M1419 finished up with The first flight for Nebraska Heat 10 was by an air-started cluster of four AeroTech I284’s (only Tom Kernes right before 2:00. Tom flew his RCDP one of the I’s ended up firing). The size, complexity, Undecided on an AeroTech J415 with a PerfectFlite and power of this flight made the Nebraska Heat MAWD altimeter for recording altitude and for rocket the showstopper of LDRS 16. parachute deployment. The J415 took this sleek Besides being a Tripoli Nebraska project, rocket up to 7,259 feet. Just two hours later, Tom quite a few members of the Omaha area NAR was ready for another neck-breaking flight. This section, the Omaha Rocket Club, were involved with time it would be his veteran RCDP Flash on an this project and attended that LDRS. Because of the Animal Motor Works K570 with an ARTS and MAWD ever increasing intertwining of both groups’ activities, altimeters onboard. The K powered RCDP Flash at the beginning of 1998 both groups were brought reached 4,957 feet, just 43 feet shy of 5,000. Dual- together as one club – The Heartland Organization staged-deployment brought it in for a close landing. of Rocketry (THOR). During 1998, THOR would Tom has flown his RCDP Flash numerous times hold its first two multi-day, regional launches: Fire here in Nebraska and out in Nevada. He has flown on the Farm that April at Breda, Iowa and Nebraska a mix of K’s, L’s, and M’s in this rocket and has Heat which took place in October at our main field reached altitudes over 15,000 feet. Besides being near Pickrell, Nebraska. The Nebraska Heat launch one tough, high performing rocket it is also very not only commemorated the big rocket which help beautifully finished, too. brought our current club into existence, but that very Denis Gilbert flew the second flight of the first Nebraska Heat served as a memorial launch for day. His North Coast Rocketry Lance Beta was THOR member Bruce Furan who died earlier in the flown straight up on an AeroTech G64. The rocket year. After a second Nebraska Heat was held in landed in the nearby weeds right off to the west and October 1999, all subsequent Nebraska Heats was successfully recovered. This would be the start would be held in the summer time months; definitely of a good weekend of flying for Denis. more appropriate for the sake of the event’s name! Don Rice had the final flight of the day With nine Nebraska Heat events under our around 4:30. Don had a PML AMRAAM 3 which he belt, the tenth Nebraska Heat arrived on the had bought from his friend and fellow coworker, weekend of Friday June 15th through Sunday the Mark Havel, sometime ago. For most of this decade, 17th. As with all of our past Nebraska Heats, it was Mark Havel was very active in our club and came to held at our field just to the east of Pickrell, Nebraska.
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