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The Sirius Rocketry Transition Series Eradicator Is Now Available!

Sirius Rocketry is proud to announce the general availability of the new Sirius Rocketry Transition Series Eradicator!

The Eradicator is the latest Mid/High power rocket in our "Transition Series" of rocket kits. Transition Series rockets (like the new Eradicator and the ever-popular Interrogator G) are rockets that can be flown as mid-power rockets, and then be flown as a high-power rocket on an H for your level 1 certification! Transition series rockets have features like thicker walled body tubes, Kevlar shock cord mount, motor retention hardware, laser-cut aircraft plywood centering rings and fins, ripstop nylon parachute, rail buttons AND launch lugs supplied standard, and other features that make them rugged flyers - great to "transition" into high power rocketry or just have fun with larger hobby rocketry F and G motors!

The Eradicator features a unique strake/ring/tail fin assembly, dual-stepped body tube diameters with interesting "vaned" transition, plastic nose cone, and as usual, our trademark waterslide decal sheets with plenty of interesting detail to add!

More information about the Eradicator is on the main Sirius Rocketry website here, and you can purchase the Eradicator in the Sirius Rocketry Online Store here!

Black Dog Rocketry Site revamped and back online

After some difficult times with webhosting the Black Dog Rocketry sirte is back online completely revamped. As anyone selling in rocketry knows, the last couple of years have been tough for the industry. But Black Dog Rocketry is here to stay and we are comitted to our customers whith advice and support to help you make the best choice and get the best value from your dollar. While Black Dog Rocketry supports primarily Hybrids we can help out by consolidating shipping for you. This gets you access to products that some manufacturers wont ship overseas because the numbers are too small.
Have a look at the new site and give Black Dog Rocketry a chance to help you out with your next Hybrid project and launch equipment.
The new site is at WWW.BlackDogRocketry.com
Regards
Ron McGough
Proprietor
Black Dog Rocketry

Tripoli Louisiana - High Cotton Launchs

There is a 10,000' waiver for this field and flights can be made to 14,000' with a call in.

Motors allowed are 1/2A through M impulse. If you plan on flying L or M motors please contact either Whitney Richard or Paul Sansoucie to arrange for pad placement or if you require the large rail (1515 rail). If you plan on flying hybrid motors, please contact us in advance thru our web site.

There will be a porta-potty on site to provide its relief efforts.

If we need to cancel due to weather or other circumstances, we will announce it no later than 9 PM on the Thursday before the launch.

To stay up-to-date on launch information please check our site http://www.tra-la.org

BALLS 21 DVD Now Available

Balls 21 started on an optimistic note with Tim Covey finding the remnants of rocket left buried in the playa from Balls 20. Tim didn’t have time at the conclusion of the 2011 event to dig the ballisticly placed rocket out of the ground, so he plugged in the GPS coordinates and a year later he was in possession of crushed miscellany of his former project he was attempting to win the Carmack Prize with. The launch had not even begun and there was already a trashed rocket on display. You knew you were at Balls before the first rocket took to the sky. This year’s event took place on September 21, 22 and 23, 2012.

Order your copy today, from Liberty Launch Systems.
$17.95 DVD, $19.95 HD Blu-Ray

Erik Gates Scholarship

The Tripoli Rocketry Association is a 501(c)(3) corporation involved in supporting hobby rocketry. One component of its charter is the furthering of educational opportunities that are part of this high tech hobby.

As one part of this mission, the Tripoli Rocketry Association has created a scholarship fund in honor of past Director; Erik Gates. Erik lived a full and active life. His contributions to promote high powered rocketry and represent our hobby in a professional and positive manner will forever be appreciated. Erik’s tragic death was the catalyst that set into motion the creation of the Erik Gates Memorial Scholarship Fund.

This fund will be used to annually award an educational scholarship to assist in the continued education of the award recipient.

If you or a family member is interested in pursuing this scholarship please look at the eligibility requirements and information on how to submit an application located on the Tripoli website: www.Tripoli.org click on the “About” tab on the home page.

Application submissions must be postmarked by June 1.

There is a mechanism on that page for making online donations to the scholarship fund. You will make a lasting tribute to Erik Gates when you contribute as well as helping educate our community.

AeroTech Announces Pro-SU Motor Line

AeroTech is introducing a game-changing new product for the high power rocketry market, the Pro-SU line of single use motors.

Pro-SU motors are different from previous and existing reloadable and single use motors in the following important ways:

• No hardware to buy, load, clean or lose
• High strength, light weight filament-wound fiberglass casing
• Lighter weight casing means higher performance
• User adjustable time delays in 2 second increments
• User adjustable ejection charge- no more "one size fits all" charges
• High reliability due to less potential for user error while retaining superior customer adjustability
• Low cost

The time delay of Pro-SU motors is shortened using AeroTech's new Universal Delay Adjustment Tool, which will be provided free of charge to each customer who purchases one or more Pro-SU motors (one free tool to a customer, please).

Pro-SU motors feature a glass-reinforced composite phenolic nozzle, a new molded plastic bulkhead and ship with a FirstFire igniter and bondable thrust ring.

Motor performance data including a sample time-thrust curve are printed on the motor label.

Pro-SU motors are packaged in a distinctive yellow shipping tube with AeroTech logos printed on the outer spiral wrapping, and the same motor label applied to the outside of the tube for easy identification and performance evaluation by the flyer. Caps on the ends of the tube are applied externally and are easier to remove than internal caps that are stapled to the tube.

The Pro-SU line will be initially produced in 29, 38 and 54mm diameters. The first Pro-SU motor is the 29mm H135W-14A, a 226 N-sec design using AeroTech's ever-popular White Lightning propellant. This motor is already TRA certified and California State Fire Marshal approved, and can be purchased by certified flyers attending NARCON from Mike Gentile of Bay Area Rocketry. The H135W-14A is competitively priced with existing reload kits at $29.99 each retail.

Other Pro-SU motors under development include the 38mm I140W-14A and J270W-14A, which will be submitted for certification shortly. These motors are perfect for Level 1 & 2 certifications and general sport flying and will also be priced competitively with similar reloads.

The Pro-SU motor design and the Universal Delay Adjustment Tool are patent pending.

Pro-SU ushers in a new era of ease of use, low cost and spectacular performance to the modern hobby rocketry market.

Pro-SU: "When you just want to fly!"

AirFest 18 DVD Released

The 2012 AIRFest-18 was the one of a kind mega-event. The KLOUDBusters hosted the event on the legendary Rocket Pasture and attracted the largest assembly of Scale Rockets in the History of High Power. The three center piece projects were Vern Hoag’s Four N-5800 powered Saturn 1B, Team Nebraska’s P-Motor powered, (towerless), Mercury Redstone and Steve Eves Two-Stage Saturn 1B boosting on a Central P-7000 and four N-3800’s and designed to stage to a 4.5” diameter O-Motor.

Scale models of all shapes, sizes and power ranges flew at AIRFest-18 including the Arizona Rocketry Team’s O-5000 Upscale Drake, Chris Short’s O-5000 powered Orange Crush and John Clifton’s O-3500 powered Upscale Corkscrew. There was no shortage of large earth shaking, bone rattling projects at AIRFest-18 taking advantage of the 50,000’ waiver.

Get your copy today from Liberty Launch Systems

CAR Certifies Three New Motors, Including The O3400

A motor testing session was held at the Cesaroni Technology Incorporated facility in Gormley, Ontario on October 26th, 2012. Thanks to Angelo Castellano for supervising the testing!

Three motors were tested and certified:

• Pro38-5G 567-I125-WH/LB-10

• Pro98-4G 8634-M6400-VM-P

• Pro98-6GXL 21062-O3400-IM-P

In addition, an extended retaining ring (called an adapter ring, Cesaroni Technology part # P98-AR) and matching boat-tail (Cesaroni Technology part # P98-BT) were test fired. The adapter ring can be used in place of the standard Pro98 retaining ring where desired (functionally equivalent for the motor). This new boat-tail was designed for the larger XL-style nozzles only.

Note: From a motor testing / safety perspective, the boat-tail can be used with smaller nozzles, however users should consider it ‘single-use’ for that purpose. Use of the boat-tail with smaller nozzles is expected to cause damage to the boat-tail (exposure of the aluminum boat-tail to the rocket exhaust).

This session included eight motor firings, consumed 31.55 Kg (69.41 lbs.) of propellant, and imparted 61,659.8 N-Sec of impulse.

While these motors were certified in Canada, a reciprocal agreement between the Canadian Association of Rocketry, the Tripoli Rocketry Association and the National Association of Rocketry means they may be flown in many jurisdictions.

I am very pleased to announce the certification of these new reloads from Cesaroni Technology, Inc. A simulation file will be prepared, and the official certification letter and the accompanying thrust curve will be available on the official CAR-ACF website soon.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas Raithby

Chair of CAR Motor Certification

www.CanadianRocketry.org

Free Avionics Bay Kits from Binder Design!

Binder Design is happy to announce the return of their holiday special! With the purchase of any rocket kit with a value of $99.99 or more, you will get a free 3.9 Avionics Bay kit valued at $34.99! (Excludes Excel with Dual Deploy kit.) This special offer runs now through 1/1/2013. Wishing all of our rocketeer friends a happy holiday season from all of us at Binder Design!

www.binderdesign.com

LDRS 31 DVD Released, Just In Time For The Christmas Sale

If you hear those sleigh bells ringing and jing ting tingaling too, that means it’s time for ROCKETS Magazine Christmas DVD Sale. All of the DVD's ROCKETS Magazine produces are now $15.95 for the Standard DVD and $17.95 for Blu-Ray, starting with the release of the much anticipated LDRS 31, with over 6 hours of video. These make great stocking stuffers and will provide hours jaw dropping, side splitting, white knuckle entertainment.

Check it out at http://rocketsmagazine.com/