The Comercial Worked!

Wanna hear a phunnie story? I had two original Centuri Sky Tracks which we used at Tripoli launches that between launches Chuck Rogers wanted to take home with him "for safe keeping". As if where they were stored for the previous 20 years was not "safe enough". I didn't care since we were supposed "good" friends at the time.

One day at a launch he set up one tracker right near the road and then left to go do something for HOURS and surprise, one of the dirt poor desert rats stole it.

Did Chuckipoo rush to replase it? Nope. I had used those for years at NAR contests I hosted.

So being the true geekthat I am I commissioned Hank Ascuitto (with net proceeds from motor and kit sales and we all know how scarce those are now, it was worse then) to build me more trackers. These were more rube goldberg than the simple and elegant Trip Barber trackers all NAR geeks such as myself are familiar with.

They were works of art and could accurately have data read to within 1/2 degree. Delivered. Used at some subsequent launch. Then Gary Berg appointed himself equipment secretary for Winterfest/Summerfest/Octoberfest, again I thought he was a friend and frankly I felt a trailer full of equipment made more sense than jamming it all into the back seat of the Jetta with a trunkload of rocket motors anyway.

Every piece of equipment that was bought by me, purchased with range fees or otherwise materialized by the good graces of fest attendees disappeared into a Berg black hole never to be seen again. I have never seen even my remaining Sky Track since.

And Rogers pulled a supreme buttfuck by allowing a partner of ours to certify motors WHILE HE WAS A PARTNER, and USING COMPANY AASSETS under his own name (Kosdon 1991) (coincidentally also losing every motor I had submitted) and then removed ME from TRA for allegedly never getting FAA waivers, all of which were gotten and Rogers himself was assigned the task of publicising the fact at launches.

As for Berg and his buddy Morrow? They wrote the falsified report on which Rogers based his presentation to the other mindless automotons of the TRA BOD to go along with removing me. I wonder how many proxies he used on that vote? He use alot to become TRA President in the first place so he could be in a position to make/let all this crap happen.

Side note, Berg and Morrow specialized in getting rocketeer wives drunk, gang banging them and breaking up marriages. Pretty sure they brooke up

So tons of equipment gone. Fully collectible Centuri Sky Tracks gone.

And the launch you ask? Within 6 months it went from 3000 people to under 200 and petered out from there.

TRA has little equipment because it is a den of theives.

Jerry