Alaska?
 

Where are the Alaskan's?
Anyone launching rockets in Alaska, Anchorage?

As Andy Griffith said in "What it was, was Football" and in his interpretation of "Romeo and Juliet": "I'm rat cheer."Only if I drove down from Fairbanks, but I don't have a vehicle anymore... (Seriously, I was rather surprised to find that Anchorage has no clubs, much less a NAR Section.)

Don't fly there, but have been there a few times (sister lives in Achorage). Am also courting a hobby shop there. Hope to hear from them some time in mid-october....

Alaska
 

Do you launch in the Fairbanks area? Shot hobby store rockets since in the 70s, playing around with F/G/H rockets/motors with my youngin... just trying to find folks in the area...

Anchorage House of Hobbies? I am told they sell "a lot" of rockets. I hope you are successful. That nut was too hard for me to crack.

- Rich

For those of you who want to market model rockets in Alaska, give this lady a try (although I can't guarantee that she would carry your particular products, she carries model rockets in her store, and she has many teacher customers):

The Red Couch
Attention: Edith Desmond
309 2nd Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99701

I'm curious: Does/would/could someone do something with rocket construction for use in snow? I can't think of anything, but then that'd be why I'm asking... :p

I guess I'm thinking about the Challenger a little...

I saw a video where these guys launched a model rocket from underwater - they sealed the whole thing up in candle wax! It worked!

I've never flown model rockets in the snow because it gets inside the body tube, melts, and makes the tube soggy, which ruins it. Ditto for the shoulders of balsa nose cones, which swell up. Spraying a rocket with epoxy paint or polyurethane paint, and pulling a ball of cotton or fabric (soaked in clear epoxy or polyurethane paint) through the body tube with a string would waterproof the inside *and* the outside of the rocket.

Frozen lakes are a great place to launch model rockets. I've done it a few times over the years at our place up north.

Alaska Northstars
 

Got the lead from the folks at Anchorage House of Hobbies:

From the NAR website...

Alaska

Alaska Northstars #726
David L. Erickson

AK
Phone : (907) 646-1004

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