***RE-POSTPONED***

Due to ongoing red flag fire conditions, we will be unable to conduct our launch in Amesbury on the 16th of November. We will see what we can do to reschedule in December.

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Apr 22, 2017 Launch in Amesbury

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Published: Sunday, 23 April 2017 18:40
Written by Claude Maina

launch field 20170423 1024486400Our first launch of the season - not including the Winter Follies - could have been the winter follies because the weather was that bad. No snow, but cold, damp and with misting and light showers most of the day. The cloud cover was very low - 400 to 700 ft and that really limited what could be flown, which was a shame because there was very little wind. Only four launch pads were set up, which was plenty and we decided not to open up the kitchen because of the low turnout. Both Fliskits and Animal Motor Works braved the weather and we are thankful that both showed up. There were at least three first-time rocketeers - dads with their kids in tow. They seemed to have had a good time even with the bad weather; hopefully they will return in better weather. With all that said, we had 74 launches from A through G. The G was a RoadRunner G80-7 that Jim must have found when he was moving because there haven't been any around for a while! It was a great flight and that ended the day for us. Pictures in the Gallery - please post yours!

           Our next launch is our joint launch with MMMSC on May 20th in Berwick. The weather's gotta be better.

TARC Launch - April 2 - Amesbury, MA

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Published: Friday, 07 April 2017 22:42
Written by Ed Pattison-Gordon

A traditional New England April Fools’ Day snow storm caused our final TARC launch of the year to be postponed a day. Nonetheless, Sunday, April 2nd, was a beautiful sunny day, although the snow was deeper than two weeks ago when it was still officially winter.

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We had seven teams launching and while, as expected, most were making qualification attempts, two did not. Qualification attempts were made by Minuteman Vocational High, Fairhaven Rec Center, Shrewsbury High, Maine Central Institute High, and Wavelet Technologies.

Cambridge Science Club for Girls had already made their qualification flights, but showed up just to get some more flights in.

Newton South High arrived with a rocket that was unable to meet the requirements so we couldn’t allow it to make a qualification flight. They reported it was built entirely from scrounged materials; total cost, including motors: $17. Held together with masking tape and hot glue, the rocket featured tube fins that ran the length of the body (made from uncut paper towel tubes). In spite of questions about its stability, we allowed the rocket to fly as a “heads up” flight. Flying with an Estes F15-6, the rocket rose a safe distance overhead before meandering about the sky under a long gentle burn, eventually hitting nose first before the parachute ejected. After the rocket was retrieved, the thoroughly scrambled egg was visible from within the plastic champagne glass nose cone.

The post launch review was held at The Barking Dog in downtown Amesbury,followed by an ad-hoc retreat to Stillwell’s Ice Cream, also in downtown Amesbury.

Launch photos are in the Gallery.

 

  1. TARC Launch - March 18 - Amesbury, MA
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