Nope, Fred, I took exactly what you said. No twisting.
You made a blanket statement, I simply pointed it out as such.
-Kevin
I still don't see how TRA has any information to help this situation. No amount of snipping content from my posts and quoting small portions will alter my original meaning and my intended meaning which has been explained multiple times now. I can only assume that you do not wish to understand my clear and lengthy explanations, and that your intent is to try to initiate an argument. I will not engage. I will simply continue to provide valid and clear information to help the person who asked the
original question solve the actual problem they presented.
Please end your responses to me and my posts now, since any further contradictions will clearly be an attempt to draw me into an argument and I will not do so. One welcome exception would be the request that I have quoted again below and highlighted in red. If that does not exist, then simply don't respond and let this rest. Thank you.
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If The TRA has Model Rocket information that can calm an irrationally scared Principal down so that they approve a Model Rocket program, then please post the link to that Model Rocket information.
If this was a college level rocketry project, then HPR materials from either NAR or TRA would be excellent. If it was a college level experimental rocketry progam, then TRA would be the logical coice.
You seem to be trying to create a controversy or arguement revolving around an absurd "NAR vs. TRA" theme. There is no need.
The program in question is a Model Rocket progam and the only national rocketry org that has the materials to support Model Rocketry education is the NAR.
Bothe TRA and NAR have materials for High power Rocketry, but we are not talking about that.
I only mentinoned it because an irrational and scared Principal is going to be even more irrational and scared when exposed to huge rockets with giant flames - or 'sparky motors'. By extension, showing the Principal ICBMs will not help get a Model Rocket program approved. I am - once again - simply saying that if you are trying to get approval for a specific type of activity, then why try to get that approval by showing them materials about activities that are beyond the level?
Apparently what I said in a previous response was missed, so here it is again:
I absolutely disagree. You are dealing with a Principal who is afraid of anything flammable. There is no need to show him or her anything about any form of rocketry other than the small Model Rockets that permission is being sought to launch.
Showing NASA rockets and their huge flames will not help, even though they are fantastic scientific tools. Nor will showing military missiles from any era. All of the professional rockets have a risk (and some have a history of) injury and fatality.
Think of it this way, if you were seeking permission for a small chemistry class lesson in water electrolysis (breaking H2O into H2 and O2) which would include burning the H2 and O2 produced to form water (H2O) again, you would not show the Principal information about large home chemistry labs, nor would you show him/her information on professional chemistry like oil refineries or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
You simply want to provide simple information to someone who has already demonstrated they are simple minded and are easily frightened and alarmed.
