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Our next launch is July 18 in Amesbury.
Click here for the 2009 launch schedule
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June 27, 2009 Scout Launch by Bob Krech |
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 I want to thank everyone who helped out at the Cub Scout launch, and
especially David Mackiernan, aka Hot Rod Lincoln, who got up real early
and drove 100+ miles up from Falmouth on Cape Cod to tow the CMASS
trailer from Saugus to the launch.
On the coast, the sun never made it out. It was only 70 degrees and a
bit humid with fog and low clouds all day, but since there was only a
slight breeze off the water, it was a fun launch with not too many lost
rockets. We had only about 1/3 as many Scouts as last year, but those
who attended really wanted to be there, and virtually all the rocket
were assembled properly, and many launched several times. We set up the
pads on the lawn directly east of the farm house and launched into the
wind over the fields. The rockets that didn't have a good deployment
landed in the hay fields away from the crops, and most of those with
good deployments landed in the launch ring or on the lawn behind it. No
stomped crops this year!
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June 21, 2009 Sudbury launch |
 Okay, it wasn't exactly the best weather for a launch. If we hadn't made a nonrefundable payment for the use of the field and/or we were sane, we all would have stayed home. We set up 4 pads and got in 60 flights in 4 hours covering the range from 1/8A to G. We got wet, lost a rocket or two and still managed to have a good time.As usual there are pictures in the gallery. Click on one of the pictures and use the slide show to see all of them.
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Mark Kibler and his students win a $2,500 Stanford University Grant |
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An article about Mark Kibler and the Weare Middle School rocketry activities was published in the Concord Monitor on June 15, 2009, and discusses the $2,500 Stanford University grant that Mark and his students received to build a scientific payload that will be loaded into a 9½-foot rocket in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in September. 
Link to the article http://www.rocketryplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2914&Itemid=31 |
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