EVENT NARAM 61

scsager said:

The on-field BBQ sounds like fun. Night Launch - a family specialty of ours - and the main reason for attending. We don't really participate in "official" NAR competition , but would love to have some details on the "H 3-egg loft". That sounds like fun, but it's hard to prep for something when the goal/objective is not clearly defined..

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Seems like the logical group meal after the egg loft competition would be omelettes for everyone!

BEC said:

I believe Chris Short is "tbonerocketeer" here....


Watch out about "a couple of events". I went to NARAM-56 figuring it would be my one and only....and last year wound up reserve meet champion at NARAM-60 and am in the throes of building and test flying models for NARAM-61 even though it will take me four days to drive there.....

Oh and yes, as noted above, pads and power are provided. At NARAM-60 launch rods of 1/8, 3/16 and even 1/4 inch were made available but if you want to use a tower or are using pistons, or both, you need to bring your own or arrange to borrow from other competitors. Any specialized launchers for, say, boost gliders or rocket gliders are also on the contestant. My own flying at NARAM-60 was partly on the provided rods and partly out of my own towers (The Apogee one and a simple one especially for my B Cluster Altitude models).

The actual process of flying was new to me my first time (though they also use it at the TARC finals, not surprisingly). The pads are numbered and you are assigned one when you check in for the flight. You go do whatever you need to prep the model to be ready to fly (though you may be asked to step back while someone is being launched from an adjacent pad). When you are ready you pick up the paddle that's on the ground with your pad number and hold it up so that the LCO can see it. You will then be "in the queue" to be launched and the model will be launched when its turn comes up.

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Thanks for the info. Very helpful and I'm looking forward to the event !

I'm all booked now to fly over to NARAM-61. No competition for me, but I'm planning to put together a minimal build kit onsite, build and fly some MPR during the week (hehe nobody ever builds stuff at NARAM, do they???) and donate all the stuff before leaving. Should be fun!

Anyone going to NARAM who I can send some sport rockets to launch?

I can’t make it, but I have some designs I’d like to share. I could mail ship the rockets either to your home or work address or to the hotel. You’d be on your own for motors. None are competition rockets. All are low power.

Specifically I would be looking to send

Two helicopter
One air brake recovery
One safe CATO recovery (something like this, but simpler). https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/estes-cato-clone.126220/
One two stage cluster, 15” gap between booster and sustainer.
Possible one 3NCF. (Three Nose Cones and One Fin)

Rockets are yours to keep if you like

Thanks,

Tom

NARAM-61 has started.

Any news?

The Manufacturers' Forum was Saturday night.
Any details?

Aerotech is rebranding all their mid-size hobby rocket motors as Enerjet by Aerotech. So A thru D will be QJet, E thru (low)G will be Enerjet, everything bigger will stay Aerotech.

Initiator001 said:

NARAM-61 has started.

Any news?

The Manufacturers' Forum was Saturday night.
Any details?

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Oh, Nooo it's RAS II

Aerotech somehow acquired the ENERJET trademark . . .

Hopefully, they will also be making DECALS !

Dave F.

Scott_650 said:

Aerotech is rebranding all their mid-size hobby rocket motors as Enerjet by Aerotech. So A thru D will be QJet, E thru (low)G will be Enerjet, everything bigger will stay Aerotech.

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I also heard they announced a new 4" Mega Initiator.

I approve.

Is that the 4" Mega Initiator?

Scott Hala said:

Is that the 4" Mega Initiator?

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Yes it is.

Initiator001 said:

Yes it is.

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Color me JEALOUS!

I attended 3 days, last Saturday, yesterday and today. The sport range was pretty close to corn and soybean fields. Saturday the wind was blowing that way and the corn field got a lot of rockets. I put a modelrocket.us Sword in there on a B4-4, so it didn't take much altitude to drift to the farm fields. People were still flying high power though. No way I was risking my chute release. Got lucky though an some kids found the Sword. Wind picked up and by mid-afternoon flags were flapping strongly. Yesterday was beautiful with a light breeze out of the east, and away from the corn and beans. High in the mid-80s. Perfect day and a lot of flights. The launch pads were set up on a large paved area, so lots of asphalt impacts. Today the wind remained out of the east, which is unusual in Indiana, but was strong enough that flags were straight out. I flew E altitude with an Apogee Aspire on an Apogee E6-6. Great flight until the bulkhead blew out of the payload pay and I lost my Firefly altimeter. Cursed a bit and moved to the sport range. An old maniac broke the shock cord and accordianed about 6" of body tube. Next my Astron Drifter landed on the asphalt and destroyed a fin. Picked u a BMS 3" School Rocket. Bill was selling them for $20. Heck of a deal. Also grabbed a Merlin Missiles The Sword. Cool looking rocket. As for news, I missed the manufacturer forum but here Estes will do some exclusive kits for Hobby lobby. Chris on the Model Building blog has more news about that.

Those E6s seem to have pretty good ejection charges. I had never flown one before today.

Both my E altitude models had some ejection charge related damage but in both cases they hung together just enough to be qualified and returned. Sure is strange to be flying a model barely bigger than an Alpha III to nearly 5000 feet!

I’ve flown E6RC reloads in my Dynasoar Rocketry Klingon Battle Cruiser so I’m familiar with the nice long burn....but there is no ejection charge with those.

Jeff Curtis said:

Picked u a BMS 3" School Rocket. Bill was selling them for $20. Heck of a deal.

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I had to leave early Sunday morning, unfortunately, due to a personal issue but did make it to the forum Saturday - not making it back to the BMS trailer saved me a little money. The BMS 3” School Rocket is a great value even at list price - I have a couple already. No way I’d have resisted the new 29m version. Or the add on payload bay.