Alan's Rockets

I suppose I can be called a born-again rocketeer (BAR), even though I don't feel I ever *really* left the field.

I got involved in model rocketry back in 1966 or 1967 -- ordering an Estes Scout from the ad in the back pages of Boy's Life magazine. I was active (at least sporadically) all through high school and college, but then fell back to armchair rocketeer mode. I maintained *some* contact with the sport, picking up rocketry magazines when I saw them and even building a couple models (see Current Models and Past Models, below), but I hadn't launched anything since 1973 while I was attending U.C. Berkeley.

That finally changed during the summer of 1997. I've been picking up Sport Rocketry and High Power Rocketry whenever I saw them at Cudahy News and Hobby and I started reading the rec.models.rockets (RMR) newsgroup. When I saw that there was finally an NAR Section (#558 Wisconsin Organization of Spacemodelling Hobbyists - WOOSH) in Wisconsin, I decided it was time to become active again. I've joined NAR (#71223 SR Ins) and WOOSH and started attending launches. I've downloaded a number (a LARGE number! ;-) ) of plans from Jim Z's plans website and (re-)built some of the models I used to have.

If you're interested in model rocketry, join NAR and/or Tripoli (and a local Section or Prefecture), read the RMR (rec.models.rockets) newsgroup to get up to speed (the people there are always willing to help out an interested modeller) and start launching.

My Fleet

Current Models
Past Models
Projects
Future Models
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Launches


Note: WOOSH club launches are usually held at the sod farm near 180th and Lincoln.
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