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NARCON 2017 Review
A Black Brant V sounding rocket, from Wallops Flight Facility, parked all weekend outside NARCON I'm finally back from NARCON, and what a weekend it was! Three days of presentations on all aspects of rocketry, plus museum tours, dinner, and a speech by one of model rocketry's beloved company ...
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Two Days Till NARCON 2017
Inside the Udvar-Hazy Center, image from the National Air and Space Museum website . NARCON 2017 , the National Association of Rocketry's annual conference, is sold out. They increased the available reservations to double the previous record, meaning that this year's conference will be the ...
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NARCON Review Preview Preview
NARCON 2017 is over. There were a lot of exciting things announced , we got some good stuff for The Rocketry Show, and I had a great time. But it's late Sunday night, and I fly back to Boston tomorrow early in the morning. So look for a recap in the next day or two. In the meantime, enjoy this ...
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Bill's NARCON adventure...
Inert Black Brant sounding rocket in the hotel parking lot. We got a visit from the police - who fortunately had a sense of humor - when someone reported this to the authorities (Click to enlarge). This past weekend, I checked off one of the items on my bucket list by showing up at NARCON, the ...
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