Rocketry is a fun and educational hobby!
The burn ban is now in effect for the Goldendale site from 1 June to September 30th. We will have have launches again for that location beginning in October 2022 and up to Spring of 2023. Once the dates have been approved by the landowner they will be posted.
here is a link to the notice and a map of the zone area in effect for situational awareness: https://www.klickitatcounty.org/249/Emergency-Management
Camas Highschool made it to the TARC 2022 event and did a great job. 7th place is a great position to make out of the hundreds of schools that competed. Mentoring and advising them with their endeavors was a great honor and to see them conduct flight testing to make it to the event was terrific. 🙂🚀🪂👍
Teachers, bring rocketry into the class as a science subject and become NAR Teacher certified:
I found a good source that will help calculate the Center of Pressure that others may find useful:
http://www.rocketmime.com/rockets/Barrowman.html
Here is Mr Barrowmans Thesis:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20010047838/downloads/20010047838.pdf
Rocketry Reviews is a great source for items in the hobby: https://www.rocketreviews.com/home-page.html
https://www.nasa.gov/stem/studentlaunch/handbook/index.html
Today from 9 am to noon was perfect. We had 100% success with launches and recovery.
Daniel and Louis were in attendance and the weather was good for launches up to F impulse.
Tri-Cities had a great Labor Day weekend event. The weather was picture perfect and rockets with impulses from 1/4 A up to N were launched. It takes place on a Sod Farm.
All rockets launched safely deployed and were all recovered.
Derek Deville offers a great Ted Talk presentation on the hobby of rocketry that others may find informative: