Model Rocketry In Rhode Island

NAR HQ will send you a list of names and addresses if you request it (you might provide zip codes sine you might want parts of SE MA and E CT.

Marshal has one "l". They hate it when you spell it incorrectly....

Good luck with Nartrek.

I'm in west CT, one of the guts in the club was a engineer in Groton, and the commute too a launch was getting to him so he split off and started a club in east CT. I'm not sure if it's NAR or Tripoli affiliated, but I'm sure that it is listed in one of the club directories. He used to joke about flying in CT as the rules were so tuff in RI. He was talking about a field that was in CT, but right on the RI border. The joke was who was going to recover a rocket if it drifted on chute into no man's land (RI).

Good luck

John

The club in Eastern CT. is called CATO and is both a NAR section and a Tripoli Prefecture.

May thru Sept we fly in Durham CT at White's Field.

Oct thru Nov we fly at a farm in Sterling CT. Weather this year has not been too forgiving and winter launches have been sparse

We have been looking for an alternate field to fly on and there are sod farms in SW RI that make us foam at the mouth. However when you add RI's statewide ban on motors over 62.5g plus the need to garner local Fire Marshall approval, it just does not seem worth the effort..

More information can be found at Catorockets.org

Al Gloer El Presidente CATO

What's the legal issue in RI that you're trying to fix?

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

In Al Gloer's post: "However when you add RI's statewide ban on motors over 62.5g plus the need to garner local Fire Marshall approval, it just does not seem worth the effort.."

I'm guessing that was it.

It's hard for me to understand, that as long as model rockets have been around, there is still so much resistance by local fire law enforcers.

Randy

It sounds like the resistance is more at the level of state fire law authors, who write the codes within which the local FM's are mandated to operate...

-dave w

here. Officially, you have to receive permission from the local authorities each and every time you want to launch. You can see their eyes glaze over when you approach them. Rhode Island is the "biggest little state in the USA", but the people border among the strangest. It's the state with the second oldest average state population (only Florida is older), the state with the highest percentage of female smokers, and the state with the highest percentage of DUI related accidents. Add in 7% sales tax on top of a personal state income tax.......well it ain't pretty

The resistence is not to model rockets. It is to HPR.

It is actively FUELED by the anti-HPR coalition within the Sport Rocket Caucus of the NFPA Committee on fireworks.

Jerry

rocketry here. Officially, you have to receive permission from the local authorities each and every time you want to launch. You can see their eyes glaze over when you approach them. Rhode Island is the "biggest little state in the USA", but the people border among the strangest. It's the state with the second oldest average state population (only Florida is older), the state with the highest percentage of female smokers, and the state with the highest percentage of DUI related accidents. Add in 7% sales tax on top of a personal state income tax.......well it ain't pretty

And unless things have changed for the better, it's not only motors over

Good Luck! Jay Calvert* former resident of eastern CT former president of CATO

Please name all those coalition members.

Alan

I have named them several times before.

Fetch or go email.

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This is just weird.

I got this response on the 16th and now it just popped up again tonight, as a new response. What the heck is going on with the newsgroups? In fact, I got every post from the 16th again as new. ??????

Randy