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Leaving for National Sport Launch 2021
I am finishing up my packing as I plan to leave for NSL 2021 Thursday morning.
It will be an (hopefully) easy two-day drive. I look forward to seeing my rocket friends after more than a year of no rockets. I am taking a selection of model rockets (No HPR). I am taking a higher than usual assortment of models with 24mm motor mounts to the event. Seems there will be some new 'D' and 'E' motors to fly.
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Bob S.A.M. # 0014 |
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Have fun, Bob. Wish I could have attended as it is a easy days drive from here. As Bob Kaplow said about NARAMs, these sort of launches are family reunions.
Love the Hustler and the Estes Renegade. Just posted about the latter. I hope the weather co-operates. Here is hoping for a great event. Chas
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Charles Russell, MSgt,USAF (ret.) NAR 9790, Lvl 1 SAM "Balls Three" |
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Bob, looking forward to seeing you. My wife and I, and Roy Houchin, leave tomorrow morning, too. I got the start date wrong when I reserved the hotel months ago. Thought flying started on Friday, so this event I have some extra time to prep rockets, assemble reloads, and shop!
We have a dark blue Honda Pilot and blue canopy. Stop on by for a cold one (I guess it has to be non-alcoholic during event hours).
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Lee Reep NAR 55948 Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold! Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp |
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Chas, sorry you’ll miss it. It is so true that these events are like family reunions. I am taking less stuff - besides being packed to the gills anyway, I know there will be more socializing and less flying this time around.
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Lee Reep NAR 55948 Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold! Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp |
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Bob,
Looking forward to seeing you. Unfortunately, not enough room for my Initiator this trip, LOL. Steve |
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Avis and I are at our first night’s stopover in Ontario, Oregon. We finally got away from the house shortly before noon today.
Wellington, Utah is tomorrow’s destination, then on to Alamosa on Friday. See you guys Friday night perhaps, or Saturday for sure. We have lots of LPR models and a few MPR models including my upscale Nova Payloader that’s been to NSL a couple of times before (and could fly on a mild H if I wanted to), but far more than we’re likely to fly in Alamosa. As you say, there’s likely to be lots of socializing. That said, if they really have 20 LPR and 12 MPR/HPR pads times two, plus three away cells, per the layout Todd sent out, and the equipment to run all that, a BUNCH of flying is possible, winds permitting. We’ll get another chance to fly before getting home, though, as we will be going to the Tri-Cities Rocketeers June Swoosh which is two weeks after NSL. The Pacific Northwest “regional final” for TARC this year will be on the Sunday of that Friday-Sunday launch and I will be helping with that. Lee, warn Roy that I brought my just-purchased copy of his DynaSoar book for him to autograph. Also, I want to ask him what he knows about the story of the “All American Alpha” and whether or not it is still at the NM Space Museum in Alamogordo.
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Bernard Cawley NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member SAM 0061 AMA 42160 KG7AIE |
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Made it to Holbrook Arizona and will stay here overnight.
Arrival in Alamosa early/mid afternoon Friday.
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Bob S.A.M. # 0014 |
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Sounds like you made good progress, Bob.
We arrived in Wellington about 45 minutes ago. Thanks to an email from Jim Wilkerson, I now know which of the two routes the rest of the way to Alamosa that I was considering NOT to take (he sent a link to info about road closures on Colorado Hwy 50). So instead we’ll take the southern route, which will take us to within 42 miles of the little NM town where I went to school from 5th grade through high school (Shiprock, NM) as we will go down to Cortez, CO then head east through Durango.
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Bernard Cawley NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member SAM 0061 AMA 42160 KG7AIE |
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Hi, Lee,
Have a great time! I would have liked to attend but I've got too much going on at the home front this weekend. Send some pics and accompanying info, and I can put together a blog post about it. You all drive safely. For the rest of you attending NSL, try to make a point of a side trip to the Sand Dunes...
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At the motel in Alamosa. Have been out to the field and pitched my shade near Jim Wilkerson’s. Saw Jim Basler here at the motel earlier and the Aerotech gang at the Alamosa WalMart a few hours ago! Now all I have to do is manage to get up early enough to get there for my first range shift in the morning.
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Bernard Cawley NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member SAM 0061 AMA 42160 KG7AIE |
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