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Virtual HARA meeting – this Thursday, November 5, at 7:30 PM

Hi everyone!
We will be having our monthly HARA meeting through Zoom again this month. Items on the agenda are:
  • November launch status and updates
  • Thanksgiving rocket judging (Jolly Logic Chute Release and Flightsketch altimeter are the prizes)
  • Officer reports
  • Monthly giveaway
  • Show and tell
Please contact officers@hararocketry.org for the meeting link.
See you Thursday!

October 10 launch will be at the Butler Mill field in Woodville

Directions here: http://hararocketry.org/hara/high-power-launches/

Flight cards available for download…

We are making flight cards available for download so that flyers can print and fill them out before coming to the launches, minimizing the amount of contact in these pandemic times. Here’s the link:

HARA flight cards

HARA COVID-19 protocols for flyers at our launches

Virtual HARA meeting this Thursday (September 3) at 7:30 PM

Join us on Zoom this Thursday (September 3) at 7:30 PM for our monthly club meeting. This month’s agenda includes:

Update on October club launch – includes discussion on CoVID-19 precautions
Status on club outreach activities
Show and Tell
Monthly prize giveaways – yes, that’s plural!
Brief summary of this year’s virtual NARAM
Status of HARA wireless launch controller

Contact officers <at> hararocketry.org for Zoom information.

See you online!

HARA 2020-2021 launch schedule posted!

Details here: http://hararocketry.org/hara/high-power-launches/

See you on the field in October!

Max-Q newsletters coming online…

All,

You will now see a “Max-Q Newsletter Archive” item under the “About Us” menu on the HARA website. This is where I have begun to place scanned copies of the old HARA newsletter, Max-Q. Now replaced by social media, Max-Q served as the primary means of communication among HARA members for much of the club’s existence since its founding back in 1979. The issues contained launch summaries, kit, motor and product reviews, rocket plans, and lots of other stuff. It was very well produced at the beginning, but as time went along, you can see the annual number of issues decrease and the number of pages go down – a common problem with section newsletters. They take a lot of work, and it is very hard to get people to contribute content as the years go by. Max-Q has not been produced for a long while, as it is much easier to do a blog or Facebook post.

Nonetheless, much of the history of HARA is contained within the issues of MaxQ, and as I was scanning them, I realized that they were of value and needed to be made accessible to the club and those outsiders who may have an interest. So I carved out a spot on the club web site – here’s the URL:

 

Vince has been prodding me for many moons to complete scanning the newsletters, but my progress has been slow. My scanner is an older model, and it often takes a few tries to get a decent quality scan. This, combined with higher priority demands on my time, will result in the slow add of more issues as time progresses. Hopefully my pace will be faster during the hot muggy summer.

Enjoy the Max-Q folks – there are some good things in there!

Bill

End of the 2019-2020 high power flying season

Due to COVID-19 and the start of planting in the fields, the HARA 2019-2020 high power flying season is over. 

Please watch here or the HARA Facebook page for any announcements of other launches.

HARA goes virtual!

The April club meeting, scheduled for this Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 PM will be held via cyber conferencing (or whatever it is called). Members should have received an email through the HARA mailing list. If you didn’t get it, or wish to join, send an email to hara+subscribe@groups.io

“See” you this Thursday night!

March 14 launch is GO!

Greetings!
After a final field inspection, it appears that conditions at Jackson 5 will support our launch tomorrow as scheduled!

  • There will be mud, and the final condition of the dirt road will be uncertain until the day, so plan to park on the gravel pad but please leave a path for vehicles (and especially Chris’s vendor trailer)
  • Cloud cover is uncertain, so bring or buy a backup motor if we need to keep altitudes lower on the day

Also considering the virus and flu season and all that, may want to exercise the 6′ rule when chatting rockets with folks.

Let’s fly folks!

~Allen OPresident, HARA