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	What's New Mark June 17-19, 2005 down on your calendars. The North East Regional Rocket Festival will be the areas premier event of the year. See the official NERRF website for more details. SpaceShip-1 wins the X-Prize. Congratulations to the scaled team! 10-4-04 the birth of a new space age. Congratulations Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites for getting half way to the X-Prize and all the way into space! Due to a family emergency I can not attend LDRS, I hope that those of you going all have a great time. The online album has the LDRS days all unlocked so please feel free to upload your pics of LDRS to share. Combined CTRA - METRA launch calendar back online. Click on Launch Calendar on the right hand navigation panel. On-Line Album added! Upload your favorite rocketry pictures and vote on them. Special LDRS section ready and waiting for LDRS pictures L3 project postponed. Due to increased demands at work I am unable to complete my L3 project in time for LDRS. S.S. Eclipse flies wireless video payload again. Go to the Movie Roc page. Completed Jeff Taylor's EX class. If you are interested in EX stop by the LOKI site and see when he's offering it again, you will not be disappointed. Joined Rocketry Top 50 Before you leave click on the TOP 50 link to vote for this site Combined Launch Calendar Added! All CTRA & METRA launches included See link on right side of page L3 project construction begins. check the L3 page for updates Salvatore Pais responds to my comments about his article in the Homeland Defense Journal. See his email to me and my response on the HomePage. Nor-East launch season begins OK folks time to dust off the rockets, its flying time Check CTRA-NARCONN and METRA sites for schedules. Loki Research becomes a Tripoli Certified Motor manufacturer while there are no certified motors yet, we can look forward to having more motor choices

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HiPower-Rocketry.com is the rocket related website of Thomas Rau. Surf the site to see what High Power Rocketry (HPR) is all about and why I think its a great hobby.

Dr. Thomas Rau, D.D.
Amateur Rocketry Society of America (ARSA)
National Association of Rocketry (NAR) #80711 L2
Tripoli Rocketry Association (TRA) #09533 L2
thomas.rau at hipower-rocketry dot com

photo by Christian Colby

The SS Eclipse suffers some fin damage at the CTRA Invitational. An Animal Motor Works K800 took the trusty beast to to over 7,800 feet and broke the sound barrier (along with two fins). See more HERE

PML Eclipse under AMW Power

This photo was taken at CTRA's Invitational launch, 9-7-03. Photo was taken by member Nick DeBrita. This is my PML Eclipse (pre-glassed phenolic) on its way to over 7,000 on an Animal Motor Works K475.
Electronics consisted of a PML Co-Pilot for dual deploy and a rocket hunter.

LOC Bruiser-EXP under full power.

This was taken on 9-6-03 at CTRA's Invitational launch by Mark Lewis. For this flight the Bruiser started on a central Aerotech J-570 W, upon launch detect a pair of outboard Pro38 J-285 were ignited by a G-WIZ MC. For this flight the Bruiser was configured for dual-deploy using an ARRD. At apogee a Rocketman R4 ballistic drogue was deployed. When the ARRD released the drogue pulled out the deployment bag releasing the R14 main. Nosecone and deployment bag descended on the R4 once released. Electronics consisted of the GWiz-MC as primary, an ARTS as backup, Rocket Hunters in case it went walk-a-bout, and a GPS-Flight system for real time telemetry.

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BATFE Conducts tests to "prove" High Power Rockets are dangerous to commercial airliners.

http://www.space-rockets.com/arsanews#atfe

Seems like the BATFE failed to follow our safety codes (no surprise there) and managed to destroy their rental vehicle during the test.

http://www.space-rockets.com/arsanews#torch

BATFE forces Aerotech to supply them with motors for the tests.

http://www.space-rockets.com/arsanews#force

Homeland Defense Journal publishes anti-rocketry propaganda

A recent article entitled "Directed Infrared Countermeasures - The Total Solution?" by Salvatore Cezar Pais is full of inaccuracies not the least of which is the authors statement that 2-stage high power model rockets can be used to shoot down airliners.

Read the article here: Homeland Defense Journal Online

My email response to the editor: response

Response from author S. Pais: Pais Response

My response to Mr. Pais: Response to Pais