<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://1038/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Mr. Weeks,<div><br></div><div>What time do you expect the launch to happen this weekend at Sinkland?</div><div><br><div>Thanks</div><div>Tish Poteet<br><div><div>On Sep 26, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Thomas Weeks <<a href="mailto:tweeksjunk2@theweeks.org">tweeksjunk2@theweeks.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'; "><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Any questions about the upcoming launch at Sinkland this weekend?</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">It is low/medium power only.. :v(</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">However, the weekened after this (Sat 6-7th) we have a bigger, HP launch at Kentland farms. :) (not on the launhes page yet)</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Tweeks</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">On Saturday, September 15, 2012 04:24:37 pm Thomas Weeks wrote:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Upcoming Launches!</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> So we have two big launches here in the next month! First up is at the new</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> launch site at the Sinkland Farms -- the Pumpkin Fest and Rocket Launch</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Sept 29th and 30th! In case you've never been to Sinkland Farms before,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> it is located on Hwy 8, south of Christiansburg about 4 miles south of</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> I81. Lots of fun for the whole family with pumpkins, face painting, hay</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> rides, food/craft vendors, and much much more! Launch and Festival</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> details are here: <a href="http://nrvr.org/launches/">http://nrvr.org/launches/</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> <a href="http://www.sinklandfarms.com/">http://www.sinklandfarms.com/</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> If you haven't been to sinkland before, see the first link above where you</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> can download & print this map:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> <a href="http://nrvr.org/launches/files/Sinkland-Farms-Launch-Site_map.pdf">http://nrvr.org/launches/files/Sinkland-Farms-Launch-Site_map.pdf</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> NOTE: Class-2 (high power) launches are still tentative right now</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> The second launch is just a week later at the regular Kentland Farms field</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> where we have had most of our launches over the last year. This Kentland</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> launch will be around Oct 6th, but we're still getting the details together</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> on that one. Stay tuned!</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Other Good News:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Bob Schoner, Monta Elkins, Dr. Shinpaugh and I have been working hard at</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> not only getting us multiple new launch sites lined up, but also working</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> with VAST and Tripoli Rocketry Association on making NRV Rocketry into our</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> own official high power rocket group through international HP rocket group</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> called TRA (Tripoli Rocketry Association). And we just got work, it's now</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> official... NRV Rocketry is now an official Tripoli Rocket Prefecture</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> #143!!! Yaaaayy!</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Being our own official TRA group means that we get our own TRA insurance,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> can high power certify our own people, have our own research launches, and</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> more!... Right here in the Rocket Boy Homer Hickam's own back yard and</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> alma matter (VT).</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> There are other implications of becoming an official TRA HP rocket group,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> but I don't want to get the cart before the horse. We'll talk more about</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> that stuff once we get some of this fall's launches behind us. After all,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> above and beyond anything else, we're still just a bunch of rocket guys</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> who want to launch (and help others launch) rockets! :) Hmm.. "The Rocket</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Guys".. I like the sound of that Bob... ;)</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Interested in Getting High Power/L1 Certified?</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> The delay before the upcoming launches is a good time to start down the</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> road toward your HP rocket certification! Getting L1 certified is not just</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> a badge of honor, it's what you need to do if you want to be able to buy</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> and use the larger, higher impulse motors that go into bigger rockets like</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> these: <a href="http://nrvr.org/pics/wise-rockets.jpg">http://nrvr.org/pics/wise-rockets.jpg</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> <a href="http://nrvr.org/pics/Hobby-Fun-Day-Rocket-Kid.jpg">http://nrvr.org/pics/Hobby-Fun-Day-Rocket-Kid.jpg</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> The first step for High Power certification is to join TRA (the</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> legal/underwriter of our group now):</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> <a href="http://www.tripoli.org/Membership/tabid/57/Default.aspx">http://www.tripoli.org/Membership/tabid/57/Default.aspx</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> or the other rocketry group called the NAR.</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> After you're L1 certified, you can buy "the big motors" (H and above with</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> the other cert levels) that these big rockets use, and talk to someone in</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> our group about doing your first certification launch (and getting you</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> hooked up wit h your first H or I HP motor).</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Oh.. almost forgot.. want more info on L1 HP rockets, where to get them,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> suggestions on building them, etc? I sent out an email on this all (and</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> more) a few months ago that should be on the mail list archives. Ahh..</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> here it is: <a href="http://nrvr.org/pipermail/nrvr/2012-March/000079.html">http://nrvr.org/pipermail/nrvr/2012-March/000079.html</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> FYI, more info on L1/2/3 certification, the difference between low</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> power/model (Class-1) rocketry and high power (Class-2) rocketry, motor</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> sizes and more related info, see the wikipedia page on it here:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Power_Rocketry">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Power_Rocketry</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> And a really great book that I recommend to new folks with TONS of info on</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> the hobby can be found here:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> "Modern High-Power Rocketry 2"</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1412058104">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1412058104</a></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> What You Get By Joining The TRA:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> The annual fees that each TRA member pays directly to the TRA is how the</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> NRVR (our group) indirectly gets:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * our launch/spectator/land-owner insurance</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * legal coverage/assistance (in case of incident)</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * safety requirements/documentation</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * listing in the international TRA rocketry group registry</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * general oversight, help and guidance</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> While individual TRA members get:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * L1-3 certification paperwork, exams, cert cards,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * regular board of directors reports on what all is going on with rocketry</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> * a voice in the voting of TRA board elections</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> All this to say, if you want to get L1 certified you need to first join</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> either the NAR or TRA before you want to attempt your L1 certification</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> launch.</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> If any of your are thinking you may want to get L1 certified at one of the</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> upcoming launches, please make sure that you have your TRA membership</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> ironed out, and you announce your intentions to the NRVR officers at this</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> email address:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> officers[at]nrvr[dot]org (obfuscated to keep out the spam)</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> If anyone has any questions about the upcoming launch, or anything else,</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> please just let us know here on the list or via direct email.</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Cheers!</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Thomas Weeks</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> NRV Rocketry Founder</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> p.s. We of NRV Rocketry want to give our sincere thanks to our brothers to</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> the north, VAST(Valley Aerospace) and specifically Chuck Neff. Without</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> Chuck and crew helping us oversee our various launches, provide the</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> NAR/TRA insurance, get the FAA waivers ironed out, etc... it would have</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> been much more difficult for NRVR to get to where we are now. Thanks Chuck</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">> and other VAST guys!</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p>_______________________________________________<br>NRVR mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NRVR@nrvr.org">NRVR@nrvr.org</a><br><a href="http://nrvr.org/mailman/listinfo/nrvr">http://nrvr.org/mailman/listinfo/nrvr</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>