Here's a gem that I found while looking through issues of the Cosmic SteppingStone, the old Skywatchers/ROMAR club news letter. This poetic offering from 1983 was my model rocket based re-make ... [Read More]
Earlier in the day, I posted a new-build clone of one of my old fleet designs - the Griffin-2. This evening I found the only existing photo of the original Griffin rocket....
This pic was ... [Read More]
This post is an account of a demonstration launch that occurred back in the summer of 1976 in Limon, Colorado. I had posted this same story on a previous version of this ... [Read More]
Last night I happened to be perusing through my collection of Model Rocketry Magazine issues , looking for some rocket plans I had recalled seeing. I happened upon the October 1969 issue which ... [Read More]
That title kind of rhymes.... After writing yesterday's post, I seemed to recall something about the ROMAR section having those scopes stolen from us. A quick check of my old back issues ... [Read More]
While making another circuit of the meeting room floor early in the event, I came across one of the display tables on which some new items had appeared....
And I knew exactly who ... [Read More]
Reunion attendee Jeff Jenkins (NAR 46879) brought along a very nice collection of vintage model rocket launch controllers for display. Most of them were from Centuri Engineering, and also ... [Read More]
The January, 1974 meeting of the Skywatchers Model Rocket Club was different in that we were now an officially chartered section of the NAR - The Rocky Mountain Association of Rocketry (ROMAR), ... [Read More]
ROMAR's first year as a section of the National Association of Rocketry was a very busy one. One of the major watershed events early in the year was the occasion on which NAR pioneer Bill Roe stopped ... [Read More]
At the end of 1974, Skywatchers/ROMAR was no longer a section of the NAR, as a few of the early members had left, and the club no longer had the required ten NAR license carriers.
But ... [Read More]
This is a continuation of the last post in this series. Here are some more pics.....
Unidentified Skywatchers member hooks up a new Estes Stiletto, 1979
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Warning: The following account contains a wee bit of ‘The Tootin’ Of Me Own Horn’. It’s not really an attempt at self-aggrandizement, but the story related ... [Read More]
On August 22-23, 1981, 15 NAR rocketeers from around the Mountain States converged on Colorado Springs, Colorado to compete in the second annual Heart Of The Rockies model rocket contest. ... [Read More]
"Darvaza, Turkmenistan - While drilling in 1971, geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about ... [Read More]
Earlier today, Flickr user Morbius19 , sent me a couple of links regarding the Manchester Interplanetary Society's rocketry activities circa the 1930's. The main site, Harry Turner's Footnotes to ... [Read More]
Having just finished a build of a Wasp boost/glider, I decide to dust off the large binder containing the ancient archives of my 'old fleet' days. A Wasp was one of my earlier glider models, ... [Read More]
As I was writing yesterday's post about the newly built Citation Patriot, I was reminded that, somewhere in my photo files, I had a picture of one of the original Patriots that a Skyw ... [Read More]
The Rocky Mountain Association of Rocketry/Skywatchers Rocket Club of Colorado Springs was featured in a series of annual Spring demonstration launches that spanned the group's entire eleven ... [Read More]
Ed Mitton left a very interesting comment on my last post about tracking rockets with theodolites... In addition to trying to see a pretty small rocket at apogee, he reminded me of the need for ... [Read More]
Here's a gem that I found while looking through issues of the Cosmic SteppingStone, the old Skywatchers/ROMAR club news letter. This poetic offering from 1983 was my model rocket based re-make ... [Read More]
