[Announcement] ROCI Launch June 25 and 26

Jun 18, 2005 37 Replies

It has weight when the President of the organization is actually, physically running the event. Barring that, it is up to whoever is in charge of that specific event.

Depending upon the organizational structure, the President of TRA can either a) do nothing, or b) remove/replace the individual in charge, or c) remove TRA sponsorship of the event.

That is how hierarchies/bureaucracies work. You know it, you weren't born yesterday. As a different example, if Mark Bundick (as NAR President) were to direct Fred Shecter (as RSO at SCRA) to do something at an SCRA launch that Fred did not believe was legal/acceptable, it would be Fred's call, not Bunny's, that would prevail.

Again, you're playing games to make it look like you're the victim here. You're not. You simply refuse to play by the rules of society -- both the overarching rules of society in general (witness the DOT incident) and the rocketry society in particular (witness -- ahh, forget it).

David "why does it feel like my head is banging against a wall" Erbas-White

There is ZERO evidence that you said "please".

There is even LESS evidence the TRA president said "yes".

Do you have any evidence?

After about ten or fifteen years or so, you get used to the headaches.

D&JWatkins wrote: One will be testing his GPS tracking unit and

I got to push the button on am AMW K1000 Skidmark yesterday. All I can say is WOW!

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Gee, let's see. I can believe Tony Alcocer, who's a stable, rational, reliable human being, or I can believe you, who has a fine assessed by a federal agency for either being clueless about, or disregarding regulations.

-Kevin

Radical thought.

How about BLM itself.

Just Jerry

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Thanks, Mario and Dennis. Your answers are encouraging. I didn't see the name of your club or location of your event site. Hopefully, if it's it's in northern Illinois or Indiana, I could get there sometime in the near future and experience launches.

Steve

Most launches are open the public. It's possible some might have a fee for spectators, but that would be the exception, not the rule. Usually only flyers have to pay a fee.

You'd be surprised at how simple this stuff is! A good high power rocket kit can be assembled without anything more sophisticated than sandpaper, glue, and an X-acto knife. The motors go together quickly and easily too -- it takes more work to open a pickle jar than it does to screw a reload into a motor. Folks at rocket launches are friendly and helpful, and I've never met a rocketeer yet who wouldn't be willing to help with setting up or recovering the rocket.

T

It was the local club that hosted the launch, and the host club ejected you. That's what comes of making a jerk of yourself at both the local and national levels. Too bad it's not an Olympic event, you'd win gold.

Pest control.

o

That's one of the beautiful things about this hobby. You can *always* find someone willing to help. And most are even willing to loan you equipment so that you can have a successful flight.

Eldred

The Group is ROCI, it's launches are held at Muncie,IN at the AMA national headquarters.

Dennis

You also find yourself being on your best behavior (most do...), because when you see all the helpful work being done, you feel so guilty you have to be the same way yourself...

David Erbas-White

The Aerotech kits are particularly easy to assemble.

That too. It's pretty easy to find a youngster who is more than willing to chase rockets for you. Or you can get Ky "Rocketman" to customize your wheelchair for you :-)

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

It's about a 4 hour drive from the Chicago area, depending on where you start. And ROCI has a launch this weekend. I try to make the Muncie launches, but am booked up this weekend. I should be back for the fall launch.

meanwhile, back to the original poster, in the Chicago area, the next NIRA launch is 17-July. See the NIRA link below for directions.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Thanks for all the encouraging replies. I will try to attend a NIRA event soon!

Steve

I did, being quite certain that once again, you would be proven clueless about government agencies. Guess what? The BLM DOES charge them. I guess we know who the liar is.

Looks like your track record with government agencies is intact.

-Kevin

Personal attccks aside, what is the policy?

You must find it supremely convient to ignore everything I might say.

The "founder" and all :) FWIW 0

Jerry

As I said, the BLM is charging AHRPA a per-head fee.

No, I looked into what you said and found it to be false, which really didn't surprise me at all.

-Kevin

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