A few photos I took during NARCON 2010 in Worchester, MA. The launch took place at the end of the conference on 3/14/2010 at "Aunt Effie's field" (now a golf course) where Robert H. Goddard made his famous flight of the first-ever liquid fueled rocket that could lift itself on its own trust. The actual (approximate) location of that famous launch was a couple of hundred yards down the hill from this pad. It was the middle of March in eastern Massachusetts, about 40°F, with gusty winds and, off and on, a cold rain. The photos accurately capture the gloomy light at 2pm on a wet March day. Delightful launch weather! It was a truly memorable and moving event, though.
The first photo is of Bob Alway's Tazmanian Devil.
The second photo is of Will Marchant's cluster saucer.
The next three photos were the high point of the launch, and the reason we were all there.
Third photo: prepping the star of the show.
Fourth photo: Lift-off of Tony Vincent's build of the FlisKits Nell!
Fifth photo: Lift-off of Tony's FlisKits L-13.
After the flights, both of these models were presented to the Robert H. Goddard museum at Clark University, Worchester, MA.