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LDRS 28
July 2-6, 2009
As 9:00 am approached, the rain had stopped and a low cloud deck would limit flying, but there would be flying. LDRS 28 was open for business. The waiver had been called in and the launch system was ready to rock. Fliers and spectators were slowly making their way onto the field as the first rockets were launched. Some folks made it directly to their designated parking spaces while others were hopelessly buried up to their axels in the access road mud.
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ARG 6
Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009
The three days of launching in the warm, midwinter weather made for pleasant break from the world gone mad that surrounded
Rainbow Valley. The fliers took full advantage of the perfect conditions, and that kept the LCO busy announcing and spectators
busy squinting into the clear blue Arizona sky.
Over an hour of video action and more then 3000 photos on this 2 DVD set. Interviews pre and post flight, in the pits
and more. All in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound.
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Midwest Power 6
Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008
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Justin Farrand
Video Productions
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Red Glare III - MDRA 2007
Two years in the making, everyone who is anyone will want a copy of this DVD. Red Glare III with many high power rocket flights including the 3 O-motor
drag race. O-motor catos and some that recover under chute.
MDRA 2007 year in review covers 9 launches and includes anything from 1/2A's up to O-motor rockets. Take a look at a year's worth of rocket flying MDRA
style, "Freedom to Fly" is just that.
Please note: A portion of the proceeds of each sale will be donated to MDRA.
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BALLS 17
Sep 26-28, 2008
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The launch known as Balls is synonymous with pushing the limits and testing your mettle. It is the once a year gathering of rocketry's heavy
hitters where reputations, bank accounts, and incredible flying machines are laid on the line. To coin a phrase used extensively in the gambling
industry, these fliers are "all in." The difference is that they are not gambling with their flights. The projects that fly at Balls are
some of the best-thought-out and best-constructed rockets to fly in any given year. Many of these rockets are designed specifically for being launched
in the Black Rock Desert. Combining Balls 17 and Mavericks 2008 in one 3 DVD set; 3 hours of video; 4000+ digital photos set to music. Dolby 5.1
Digital Surround Sound.
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LDRS 27
Aug 28-Sep 2, 2008
LDRS 27, the largest amateur rocketry event in the world, took off as planned August 28, 2008, just outside of Argonia, Kansas.
For six ammonium perchlorate-inspired days, through September 2, with ideal flying conditions and under the expert guidance of the
Kloudbusters rocketry club, people from all over the country in fact, from all over the world converged on seven hundred acres of rocketry
heaven to send more than a thousand rockets into the blue Midwestern skies.
Big 4 DVD set, 3 hours of fast paced video action. Two disks of 7,900+ digital photos of the launch set to music.
Dolby 5.1 Digital Surround sound.
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Summer Skies 2008
June 20-22, 2008
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One of the best kept secrets in rocketry is the launch site in Brothers, Oregon. The secluded location is perfect for high-power action that screams into the clear blue skies. You are truly committed to the hobby when you launch rockets with the Oregon Rocketry folks. One of the first questions a newcomer would ask is "How much recovery room do you have here?" Inevitably, the answer always comes back as another question, "How much do you need?"
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NSL 2008
May 24-26, 2008
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Orangeburg, South Carolina is a name that is synonymous with big launches and big rockets. It has been the site of two LDRS events in 1996 and in 2000. It is no stranger to big crowds at the annual Freedom Launch. It should be no surprise that for the fiftieth anniversary of the National Association of Rocketry, the National Sport Launch is being held at this bastion of southern hospitality and rocket launching know-how.
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Red Glare IV
April 18-20, 2008
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On a bright sunny day in April 2008, on a rye grass field an hour away from our nation's captial, seventeen federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) stood in a tight circle around a man holding a huge green rocket loaded with ammonium perchlorate. Clad in dark blue polo shirts, cargo pants and black sunglasses, with matching hats bearing the ATF logo, the agents carefully pondered the rocket and questioned the man who claimed it was his. This was the first time any of these federal agents had been to an amateur rocket launch. And what would happen next is anyone's guess.
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Winter Nationals 2008
February 16-18, 2008
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The Florida Winter Nationals sponsored by Tripoli West Palm and the Florida Space Modeling Association exemplifies "from tiny acorns,
grow mighty oaks." It must seem like yesterday to the folks in South Florida, when they decided to hold a big launch just to see what would happen.
They held that first launch in 2004, and over the four years that followed, the core of TWP, Al Bychek, Rick Boyette, and Charlie Loveday, learned
lots of things about holding a big launch. THe most important lesson they learned was, to coin another phrase, "hold it and they will fly." And fly they did, 248 times.
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A.I.R.Fest 13
August 31-September 3, 2007
The Kansas Prefecture have set the standard for organization, infrastructure
and high flying, big project expertise. With a standing 34,500 foot waiver and windows to 50,000 feet, A.I.R.Fest is one of the few launches where you
can fly high and easily recover your project on miles of open empty, tree-less farm land.
A.I.R.Fest 13 is a glimpse through the keyhole of what you can expect to witness at LDRS 27.
Over 600 flights left the ground during this warm-up launch. You'll be glued to your seat watching the action as massive clusters, supersonic flights,
incredible shreds, full rack drag races, research day mayhem and the awesome P-motor powered Mercury Redstone Project light up your screen. After viewing
A.I.R.Fest 13, you will realize that you're not in Kansas anymore, but need to get back to the Rocket Pasture that will again host LDRS 27 for the biggest
rocket launch of the year.
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Cool and Really Cool Flights
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ROCKETS Magazine has been traveling across the country for the past two years covering the biggest and the best rocket launches.
In that short time ROCKETS Magazine has produced 25 DVD's, which exhibit more white knuckle, fast action excitement than anyone could stand to watch.
The latest DVD from ROCKETS Magazine is the highlight reel of some of the more memorable flights.
Over three and a half hours of video action on this 2 DVD set. Dolby digital 5.1 Surround sound.
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Three Oaks 2007
November 3-4, 2007
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Twice a year Michigan Team-1 moves from their normal launch site to
the big field at Three Oaks. Their home field is in Manchester,
Michigan, near Ann Arbor. While it takes a focused effort of
volunteers to make the move to the Three Oaks site, it is worth it.
The higher waiver at Three Oaks allows flights to 12,000 feet, and
windows to 16,000 typically bring out Team-1's big guns.
2 hours of video action on this 2 DVD set. That covers the pits,
interviews and of course the launch itself. Over 1500 plus, high
quality digital photos. Run as a slide show, with music. All set in
5.1 Surround sound.
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BALLS 16
September 28-30, 2007
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The launch is summed up in one word: Balls. If you fly high-power rockets, you know what it means. If you have been to the Black Rock Desert as a spectator, your pulse will quicken. If you have flown there in the past, you might start to break out in a cold sweat. If this year was your first time to fly a project on the Playa, you have just jumped from the biggest cliff that high-power rocketry has to offer. 4 Hours. 2500+ Photos. 2 DVD Set.
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NYPOWER 12
July 27-29, 2007
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The twelfth edition of NYPOWER was held in Geneseo NY over the summer of 2007. With help from the Historic Air Group and the Monroe Astronautical Rocket Society this classic rocketry event held memories for those who attended. This video will five everyone a little insight into the pad experiences and a slowed version of the flights not available from the flight line.
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LDRS XXVI
July 12-17, 2007
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The Jean Dry Lake Bed is about twenty-two miles south of Las Vegas and about fifteen miles from the California border. This is a great place to launch rockets. It is expansive, with very low sage-brush, making recovery of a rocket reasonably easy. The down side at this year's LDRS 26 was the temperature. The Las Vegas area was experiencing a record heat wave, with daily temperatures hovering around 110 deg F plus. You can forget about all that "it's a dry heat" malarkey; hot is hot, no matter how you cut it.
Big 4 DVD set, over 3 hours of fast pace video action. Two disks of 4200+ digial photos set to music. Dolby digital 5.1 Surround sound.
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During LDRS 26 there was group discussion on Thermite; this disk contains the complete unedited version of that discussion.
This DVD is for education purposes only, Rockets Magazine and the persons in the discussion take no responsibility for the
use or misuse of this information. 1 hour.
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ROCstock XXV
June 8-10, 2007
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There are so many comparisons to the grandfather of all big festivals. The biggest and most dramatic is simply the size of ROCKstock.
According to ROC President Doc Hanson "We were wondering if anyone was going to show up, being that this launch is scheduled so close to LDRS 26. I am amazed at the turnout and the projects that people have brought to launch."
Here is ROCstock Silver Anniversary launch.
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Red Glare II
April 20-22, 2007
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Spring is the time to fly the projects we built over the winter break; And come they did, almost twice the Newton Seconds than Red Glare I. On board video of the P motor flight, an O motor Drag race - where everyone wins. Everything from A's to P's packed into just 3 days of flying.
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FITS 2007
May 26-27, 2007
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Memorial Day weekend means many things to folks across the country. To most it gives us a space in time to think about and thank our service men and women, past and present, for
their sacrifices. It is the state of the summer season, a time to shake off the last chills of a long winter. This is especially true in the Northwest town of Mansfield, Washington. It also means that for
three days the Mansfield will be looking up, literally. This is the weekend that Fire in the Sky, better known as FITS, has come to town.
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ARG-4
February 24-25, 2007
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The fourth annual ARG launch, held this year at Rainbow Valley Arizona, is solidifying its place in rocket-launching circles as the place to be in late February.The spacious field is
surrounded by the McDowell Mountains to the northeast, the White Tank Mountains to the west, the Superstition Mountains far to the east, and the Sierra Estrella to the
southwest. The flying and recovery field feels like a billion acres of space. This has to be one of the larger launch sites in the country.
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Team America Rocketry Challenge
2007 Finals
Great Meadow, The Plains, Virginia
May 19, 2007
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Whitakers North Carolina
November 19-20, 2005
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DVD 37 minutes. Sport Day had 5 Level 2 flights. Ex Day had a 400 lb rocket on an 8" P motor and other really cool flights.
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NYPower 10
Geneseo New York
July 2005
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| Midwest Power 6 | |
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| Red Glare III - MDRA 2007 | |
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| BALLS 17 | |
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| LDRS 27 | |
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| Summer Skies 2008 | |
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| Red Glare IV | |
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| Winter Nationals 2008 | |
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| A.I.R.Fest 13 | |
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| Cool and Really Cool Flights | |
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| Three Oaks 2007 | |
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| BALLS 16 | |
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| NYPower 12 | |
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| LDRS 26 | |
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| ROCstock XXV | |
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| Red Glare 2 | |
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| Fire In The Sky 2007 | |
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| NERRF 2 | |
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| TARC 2007 | |
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| Winter Nationals 2007 | |
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| Midwest Power 4 | |
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| Red Glare 2006 | |
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| LDRS 25 | |
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| Winter Nationals 2006 | |
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Produced by MDRA club members and offered to ROCKETS Magazine subscribers. (Note: This includes all 2006 launches except Red Glare 2006.)
