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June 10, 2017 - Joint launch at RIMRA field in West Kingston, RI

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Published: Sunday, 11 June 2017 13:36
Written by Kenn Blade

Our second away game of the season was held with the good folks of RIMRA at the URI sod fields in West Kingston, RI. The sky was blue and the sun was shining. There was wind all day but it did a nice job of keeping the sun from being too overwhelming and blew out of the west under 10 mph. Most flyers adjusted nicely to it. We had a total of 118 launches from about 27 flyers with a couple of CATO's that didn't clear the pad; MESS reports will be filed. We broke a streak of CATO's on Mega Der Red Max rockets; two launch weeks in a row in Berwick had severe damage to a couple of these models but, after many ingitor replacements, we had a nice MDRM flight at the end of the day.

That MDRM was launched by Jonathan, a young fellow who regularly flies with RIMRA. He had 25 flights that day using 25 motors. Boris had 3 flights that day using 24 motors. Someone put more flames into the air than Boris at a launch - who would believe it.

We used the CMASS 11-pad ring for low-and mid-power flights and the CMASS pads and RIMRA wireless controller for the high-power launches. Some of the HPR used sparky motors, something we don't see at CMASS-only launches. RIMRA set up their Rocket Cafe and fed us all very well at midday. Jason was on hand representing AMWProX and was busy all day. Cosmodrome was back with us and has plenty of stock for your building needs.

In the flyers meeting that RIMRA holds before the start of operations, all of the procedures for the day were reviewed and the restrictions for recovering rockets from a freshly planted part of the field were given. I took this opportunity to announce the availablilty of the range box stickers to support the Bill Spadafora Memorial Fund (there will be an article soon explaining this in more detail) and we got quite a few donation from that. In addition, Jason pledged a part of his on-field sales to the fund and RIMRA told us to keep the launch fees we would have paid them to help the fund. A very grateful thank you to AMWProX and RIMRA for this support.

Our best wishes go out to Breton DeBoef and his family who were at the front end of a 9-car crash on I-95 in Providence on the way home from the launch. He and his family are alright but the box that held many of his rockets on a rear-bumper rack got a little crunched; some rockets made it, some may never fly again.

Check out the pictures posted in the gallery and upload some of your own.

May 20, 2017, Joint launch with MMMSC in Berwick

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Published: Thursday, 25 May 2017 08:22
Written by Kenn Blade

While the hay is growing and the bob-o-links are nesting in Amesbury, we take to the road to hold joint launches with our neighbors. May is our month to join MMMSC and enjoy the sod farm in Berwick, Maine, and enjoy it we did. The weather was beautiful from the outset with just some high clouds moving in later in the day. The wind was a little more than light and variable at the surface with the upper levels well predicted by the windy.com app. 

There were 172 launches in total ranging from A- to L-impulse. We had six successful L1 certifications and one L2. Unfortunately, two L2 cert attempts failed, one by CATO and the other by flying off the field and not being recovered until everyone else was gone. There were some other CATOs in both large and small black powder motors as well as composites. Our fire suppression crew did a great job of keeping even the worst of these problems contained with no lasting impact to the field. Take heart; while the Mega Der Red Max may be history, there is a Fiber Max available from AMWProX.

We had college teams in attnedance, lots of the usual fliers for Maine and even some people who had never been to Berwick before (like most, when you see it for the first time, you'll come back to fly there again). Fliskits was on the field and Jason covered AMWProX for all those needs. Both of our vendors also donated lots of goodies for a couple of raffles Scott held.

We have a gallery set up for you to upload your photos; I know there were lots of cameras and lots of action so let's see what you saw. 

Next month, we're off to West Kingston for our June joint launch with RIMRA.

  1. Apr 22, 2017 Launch in Amesbury
  2. TARC Launch - April 2 - Amesbury, MA