David Barber
AKA: Astronot Location: SouthWest Georgia Certification Level: L1 NAR Club Memberships: NAR, SoAR Favorite Rockets: Big Bertha, Alpha & Alpha III, Saturn V, Saturn 1b, Gemini Titan, Mercury Redstone, Mercury Atlas, Jupiter C, V-2, Astrocam 110, Omega, Space Shuttle, Eliminator XL Biography: I am a BAR. I first got into model rocketry in 1982. I used to fly my rockets at an unsued industrial park just a short walk from my home. I flew rockets with a few of the local neighborhood kids. I owned approx. 12 kits back then. I am slowly rebuilding my original fleet through cloning or purchase of OOP kits. I am also buying, cloning, and building kits that I wish I could have owned as a kid. I bought a built some rocket kits with my two boys in the late 90's but it never really took hold. I bought an Estes V-2 kit back in 2000 from Hobby Lobby and never built it. My two daughters ages 8 and 10 discovered it and kept after me to build it, plus they wanted some kits of their own. In May of 2013 I bought some more kits, plus motors, we built but we couldn't find a decent place to fly, I also finally built my V-2 Rocket, by the way. I looked online for places to fly rockets and discovered a semi-local club. The girls and I joined, and we flew our rockets, and I don't know what happened, but I was hooked again, and I have been hooked ever since. My oldest daughter is still pretty involved, and my youngest joins in when she feels like it.
I'm heavily involved in model rockets but also pretty involved in MPR and HPR. I am currently Level 1 Certified as of 2-25-14. I ceretified on NAR Level 1 with a Madcow Aerobee 150a on a CTI 110-14 motor. The rocket flew approx 2300 ft, and was recovered via parachute on a single deploy configuration.
Favorite Quote: "Research is what I'm doing, when I don't know what I'm doing." - wernher von braun
Club Home Page: http://www.soarrocketry.org/ RocketReviews.com Pages: What You Can Do
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