Fellows of Amateur Rocketry in Tarrant?
I like it.....a bit of a reach, but I like it. Now, how are we gonna work in "OLD"?
If we can start a club, I really don't much care what we call it, I just would like to avoid having "Ft Worth" in the name because I don't want to alienate anyone from Parker, or Johnson, or Ellis, or anywhere out there that they are still willing to drive in for a meeting.
And the only reason Bone Daddy and I met in south Arlington was he happened to be the first one I got in touch with, and I thought s. Arlngtn would be a good halfway spot for us. We could just as well hold the next get-together in downtown Ft Worth, or the stockyards, or NRH, or north Arlngtn somewhere along I-30....wherever is handy.
Having another get-aquainted meeting on the 20th sounds good---at least, it doesn't sound any worse than any other time at this time of year. I've been a bit busy the past week with a couple reports due at work, my wife's B-day, and getting ready for Christmas (STILL don't have all the lights in the yard yet!), and the next two weeks don't look much better, so all meeting times are good (or bad?). I'll plan on the 20th, and I'll still cover the first round of beverages.
I gotta say I was impressed with Bone Daddy, he has a lot of energy and is ready to launch. One or two more guys like him and we ought to be sure to get a club going.
I would like to meet the rest of you guys, so come on out. We can talk a little potential local club activity and see what everyone thinks. I don't think a local club necessarily has to be on my side of town (and I rather expect it would not) but I would like to see one somewhere local so area kids would have a decent chance to attend meetings and launches. I'm willing to drive 30-45 minutes, but I don't like to take a couple hours to get to a certain
other club's meetings, or take a tank of gas to drive to their launches. There's gotta be a better way to keep it local and handy, even if we have to limit things to low-power and mid-power. If we can get some kind of club started, or maybe add on to an existing science club or YMCA activity or whatever, I'm pretty flexible on when/where/how.