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.
In other words, here are some photos I didn’t get posted on time that I’m squeezing in here at the end of the year.
There are family shots, students working on payloads and scenes from the TARC building session. HARA had a great year and hopefully will have a happy new one. Read more
HARA and AIAA-Greater Huntsville help United Cerebral Palsy adapt toys for children with special needs. This is the second time HARA and AIAA-Greater Huntsville have joined up, and this one was a very special cause.
The team poses for a photo
On December 8th, a dozen engineers and friends gathered a UCP for three hours to modify toys with special switches.
A toy can take around 30-45 minutes to adapt. We were able to get about 40 toys adapted, which equates to about $2,000 worth of toys. Everything from remote control cars to stuffed frogs to laser blasters and water guns.
The event was organized by HARA President Daniel Cavender and UCP TASC Coordinator Brandon Welch.
Thank to everyone who attended: Laura Schertz, Alex Dominguez, Omar Mireles, Jesse & Amanda Jones, Daniel Heater, Grace Belancik, Jarvis Caffrey, & Austin Decker.
The full write up of the event is on AL.com
click ‘Watts for Tots’
NASA’s Exploration Flight Test 1, or EFT-1, will mark the first-ever test flight of the agency’s Orion spacecraft for deep-space exploration. The unmanned test flight, scheduled for Dec. 4, 2014, will send an unmanned Orion space capsule on a 4.5-hour spaceflight to simulate the re-entry of a mission to the moon. Read more
NAR has just dropped the dues rate for rocketeers aged 21-25 to $25 a year. This is for full membership benefits (insurance, magazine, etc.) that previously were $62. The age range for this rate was 16-20, but it was expanded at the last NAR board meeting to be age 16-25. This is not a limited time discount, but a new rate structure to attract and accommodate the growing number of post TARC and college rocketeers.
The new enrollment form will look like this
SR (Age 26 and older) Join – 1 Year ($62) – Regular Magazine
SR (Age 21-25) Join – 1 Year ($25) – Regular Magazine
Tell your student friends the price is right to join NAR.
Weather looking pretty good. Winds might be a bit of a challenge at times. We plan to have the range open at 10AM. See you tomorrow!
Daniel
One of the best NARAM in recent years was well attended with many rockets (and no raccoons) launched from ‘A to O’ in motor size. The weekend sport launch included the student and intern flights mentioned in the post below while the rest of the week was competition and evening presentations. For the fifty-sixth year rocketeers convened to renew acquaintances, hear industry announcements, learn new skills and fly more rockets. Read more
