JStarStar
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OK, well, I've been thinking about it for a couple of months, and I finally hauled off and printed up some flyers and took 'em around to the hobby shops to try to get a rocketry group started in the suburban Detroit area in Oakland and Macomb counties (and perhaps some additional areas as well.)
Now right at the start I want to make it clear I am not trying to draw people away from membership in HUVARS, the very cool NAR chapter based in the Huron River Valley area (Ann Arbor and southwest of Detroit.) My idea is that this group would actually complement HUVARS and work in conjunction with it.
In fact, I joined HUVARS myself and have every intention of trying to attend meetings whenever I can, but the problem, as anyone who lives around D-town can attest, that it is very very hard and time-consuming to get over there in traffic - to make a 7-7:30 meeting over there, you have to leave the Royal Oak area (my vicinity) probably no later than 5:30, which puts you right in the guts of traffic, which does not really slack off until 7:00 or so.
So I thought there might be some interest in getting a group going in the Oakland/Macomb area. I've e-mailed the HUVARS membership and the response has been pretty uniformly positive. The general opinion is that anything that serves to increase the overall interest in rocketry is probably a good idea.
So, anybody in the Oakland/Macomb area, or for that matter, the city of Detroit or even up into Macomb County, this is for you. I've talked to several different hobby shops and they seem to think there is some rocketry interest in the area, so why not give it a try??
At first, the main idea would be to find a place to fly within a fairly short driving distance - Gus, I know you fly in R.O. and I fly some low-power birds in Ferndale. Maybe we can find a place to fly LPR stuff up to about E's - I've e-mailed to the HUVARS list-serv about a field I think would work.
Anyway, here's the info. I'm gonna try to e-mail as many of the NAR members in the area too.
Now right at the start I want to make it clear I am not trying to draw people away from membership in HUVARS, the very cool NAR chapter based in the Huron River Valley area (Ann Arbor and southwest of Detroit.) My idea is that this group would actually complement HUVARS and work in conjunction with it.
In fact, I joined HUVARS myself and have every intention of trying to attend meetings whenever I can, but the problem, as anyone who lives around D-town can attest, that it is very very hard and time-consuming to get over there in traffic - to make a 7-7:30 meeting over there, you have to leave the Royal Oak area (my vicinity) probably no later than 5:30, which puts you right in the guts of traffic, which does not really slack off until 7:00 or so.
So I thought there might be some interest in getting a group going in the Oakland/Macomb area. I've e-mailed the HUVARS membership and the response has been pretty uniformly positive. The general opinion is that anything that serves to increase the overall interest in rocketry is probably a good idea.
So, anybody in the Oakland/Macomb area, or for that matter, the city of Detroit or even up into Macomb County, this is for you. I've talked to several different hobby shops and they seem to think there is some rocketry interest in the area, so why not give it a try??
At first, the main idea would be to find a place to fly within a fairly short driving distance - Gus, I know you fly in R.O. and I fly some low-power birds in Ferndale. Maybe we can find a place to fly LPR stuff up to about E's - I've e-mailed to the HUVARS list-serv about a field I think would work.
Anyway, here's the info. I'm gonna try to e-mail as many of the NAR members in the area too.
