We have a rocketry home for you!
Thanks to all who braved temperatures in the mid-30’s to attend our last launch of the 2018 flying season. The 45 flights they put in pushed our 2018 total to 327 flights, our largest total since 2015. Congrats to Ed Chess who, with 43 flights, was our most frequent flyer!
You can download a complete summary of all our 2018 flights from our Facebook file page located here:
Check out the launch photos on Facebook here.
See you in 2019!
Our October 14 launch was very good with light winds and 59 total flights, including over 20 NRC competition flights!. We have a good shot at posting 300+ flights for our 2018 flying season, a good total for our little rocket club. Here’s the current summary of 2018’s flying.
We are “GO” for launch Sunday BUT we are under the wet conditions protocol for the Hughes Farm Field.
DO NOT DRIVE ON THE GRAVEL ROAD THAT BISECTS THE FIELD!
Instead, please park on Dimmel Road in the grass ditch/side of road.
Longtime NIRA member John Barrett has donated his rocket collection to NIRA, but there are rocket left over and the Fox Valley Rocketeers have them! You can have a look at the collection at our October 14 launch. There are a LOT of rockets in varying degrees of condition, some with popped fins, many of which have the fins present and therefore repairable. We ask that if you take anything, you send John a thank you note; address labels will be provided for you at the launch.
Bob Kaplow has been displaying rockets as part of the NASA/JPL booth at the NIU STEMfest for several years now. This year, NIU is adding a maker faire, and asked Bob about displaying more rocket stuff. Bob is looking for more people to help out and bring stuff to display.
The event is at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb. The event is free and open to the public from 10-5.
For more details see https://www.stemfest.niu.edu/stemfest/
If you can give Bob a hand, please email him at bobkaplow at yahoo dot com.