On Friday April17th, Vince Hugele, Duane Mayer, Daniel Cavender and Woody Bevill set up an information booth at the Weatherly Heights Elementary School for their spring STEM event.  We had originally planned to launch several A/B powered low power rockets to kick off the event, but Mother Nature had other higher priority plans that forced the launch to get scrubbed. Read more

More than 30 high school, college and university teams will launch student-built rockets during the 15th annual NASA Student Launch event April 10-11 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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If this doesn’t describe how you feel about rocketry, bet you know someone who does.

Chris’ Rocket Supplies will be at the Manchester launch site this weekend. Contact Chris at http://www.csrocketry.com/store/

We would like to make you aware of an aviation event happening in  Huntsville on Saturday, March 14. Please see the flyer for
International Drone Day. All are welcome to come, connect, and learn  about the exciting possibilities that unmanned systems can offer. This…  is also Pi Day (3/14/15) and Einstein’s Birthday!
The Greater Huntsville Section will be manning a display & recruiting table during the event.

Last weeks meeting was cancelled because of the dangerous winter weather.  We will make up our regular HARA meeting this Thursday night – March 12th. Meeting will start at 7:30pm in the ERC classroom.  This will be our last meeting before the NASA student launch week, so those interested in helping with range ops that week, please make an effort to attend.

Thanks,
Daniel

And thanks to those who have already renewed their memberships for 2015. Duane (Treasurer) will be issuing new membership cards for 2015.

In this winter season not much flying gets done and not much posting either. So let’s go back to September and I’ll tell you about a dual deployment flight I made then. I want to document this so that people will know I do fly these rockets but I am not often caught doing it. During most of the major launches during the year I am working the range or with students and teachers and don’t have time to personally fly anything complicated. Toward the end of the flying season I have more time to Read more

Last night in Birmingham, we lost a great Rocketeer and a great friend, Carl Hicks. Please keep his wife Hope in your thoughts and prayers in the coming days.

Anyone who has been to down to fly with Phoenix Missile works, knows Carl and Hope. Carl has been a long-time friend and member of PMW, HARA and the rocketry community in general.  The rocketry community is filled with good people, but they don’t come any better than Carl.

We will notify the club when the memorial services will be held.