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BALLS 20
September 30- October 2, 2011
Since 2006, altitudes at BALLS crept steadily higher. But 2011 saw a dramatic increase in high-altitude attempts, particularly in the number of
flyers who were trying to attain at least 100,000 feet above the desert floor. And they reached for that altitude, and even higher, in several
different types of rockets, from single stage traditional missiles, to two-stage rockets, boosted darts, and hybrids—there was even a three-stage
attempt before the weekend was out.
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LDRS XXX
September 1-6, 2011
LDRS 30 brought in fliers from 29 different states and three different countries. Some of the fliers arrived days before the
event to get the best camping or rocket pit spots. The truth is there isn't a bad seat in the house when you witness a launch
in the Rocket pasture. The KLOUDBusters maintain safe distances which allow any set of pads to be launched from while others
are loading. From a vantage point of a flat bed trailer located on the highest knoll of Rick Nafziger's farm, the LCO can
easily scan the entire 40 acre launch range.
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Midwest Power 9
October 28-30, 2011
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Justin Farrand
Video Productions
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NXRS 2011
July 1-3, 2011
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The Northwest provides a haven for some of rocketry’s heavy hitters. It is in their off the beaten path launch locations where these facilitators of flight
practice their craft. Have no doubt; this is high waiver and big motor country. The Northwest is where many of big rocket fliers who migrate annually to the
Black Rock Desert cut their research teeth. They hone their motor making and rocket flying skills in seclusion to the east of Cascade Mountain range in a place
where true rocketeers make full use of the 43,000 foot FAA waiver. The place is called Brothers and the launch is called the Northwest Xtreme Rocket Show or NXRS.
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NERRF 7
June 24-26, 2011
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The Northeast Regional Rocketry Festival, better known as NERRF lived up to its name as preeminent regional summer launch in the Northeast
and maintaining a festival like atmosphere. The epicenter of activity was located on the massive METRA launch site in Pine Island,
New York. NERRF 7 sent rockets screaming skyward for three days of continuous launching, under the Indy Format, where commercial rocket
motors peacefully coexist with research rocket motors. Over 550 rockets from 1/4A’s to M powered Sod Shakers were blasted into warm,
still skies officially opening the Northeast summer season.
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Steve Eves - Vern Hoag
Saturn 1b
April, 2011
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Two years of dreaming and planning had come down to this: launch day. While the conditions were anything but optimal, they were manageable. Both
Vern and Steve expressed their willingness to prep the rockets and watch the wind conditions, as the mrning turned into afternoon. The MDRA launch
organizers and the Higgs bothers concurred. By 10:00A.M. launch preparations were in full gear. Both twenty-foot tall towers were within fifty
yards of each other and would provide a rocketryvista never before seen: two 800-pound 24-foot tall museum-quality Saturn 1Bs ready to be launched.
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ARG 8 / Battle Park 2011
February, 2011
ARG is an event put on by the Arizona High Power Rocketry Association, AHPRA, headed up by Mark Clark and TRA BOD member Robin Meredith.
Waysie Atkins is an integral part of the launch and shares the LCO duties with Robin. Jack Garibaldi was out onsite with
What's Up Hobbies to cater to every rocketry need a flier could imagine with his fifty-foot store on wheels.
Battle Park launch site in Culpeper, Virginia returning to its former glory as a Mid-Atlantic epicenter of rocketry activity. Battle
Park hosted the Federation of Galaxy Explorers, Battle of the Rockets Competition. The AIAA jumped onboard the educational competition
bandwagon and sponsored an exciting high powered egg lofting challenge. All of the competition flights took place during a three day high
powered rocket launch in the rolling hills of Virginia.
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BALLS 13
September 10-12, 2004
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LDRS 22
July 17-22, 2003
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LDRS 21
July 11-16, 2002
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LDRS XX
July 19-22, 2001
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Red Glare IX
October 22-24, 2010
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In the fall of 2010, Red Glare IX went pink with support of the Maryland Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Breast cancer is an insidious disease that has touched
many, directly and indirectly. The members of MDRA supported this effort early on through generous donations in a touch economy and by enhancing awareness with fleets
of pink rockets and T-Shirts.
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Cool and Really Cool Flights 2
ROCKETS Magazine has been traveling across the country to the biggest and the best rocket launches. In four years ROCKETS Magazine has produced
more than 30 DVD's, which exhibit more white knuckle, fast action excitement than anyone could stand to watch. This latest DVD from ROCKETS Magazine picks
up where "Cool and Really Cool Flights" stops: Pulling from 16 titles from "Three Oaks" to "BALLS 18", 200 video clips including the never before seen annual MDRA Xmas tree launch.
This is the second volume in a ROCKETS Magazine series called "Cool and Really Cool Flights". Sit back, turn up the volume and watch in amazement with what your
fellow rocketeers have come up with. You'll cheer when you see how well the project worked. You'll groan out loud when they fail. You'll cringe as you anticipate the outcome.
Will it be a perfect chute recovery or a ground capture? Will the project be displayed in a museum after the flight or will it be reduced back to kit form and taken home in trash bags?
Over six hours of video action on this 4 DVD set. Dolby digital 5.1 Surround sound.
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