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LDRS XX	LDRS 21	LDRS 22	BALLS 13

Thunderstruck 2012

Justin Farrand
Video Productions

Cool and Really Cool Flights 3

Over four years, traveling coast to coast to bring you the best. Cool flights of small to the very large rockets. Fast flights, high flights to over 100K feet, complex rocket flights of three stages. Then there are the Really Cool flights, the ones that didn't work. Pound for pound this DVD has tons, with over four hours of video to show the errors of their ways. In high-def you can almost taste the dust, smell the AP, and feel the warmth from the hot sun. You've heard of these flights now all in one DVD which you have a front row seat, so hang on.

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BALLS 20
September 30- October 2, 2011

Since 2006, altitudes at BALLS crept steadily higher. But 2011 saw a dramatic increase in high-altitude attempts, particularly in the number of flyers who were trying to attain at least 100,000 feet above the desert floor. And they reached for that altitude, and even higher, in several different types of rockets, from single stage traditional missiles, to two-stage rockets, boosted darts, and hybrids—there was even a three-stage attempt before the weekend was out.

LDRS XXX
September 1-6, 2011

LDRS 30 brought in fliers from 29 different states and three different countries. Some of the fliers arrived days before the event to get the best camping or rocket pit spots. The truth is there isn't a bad seat in the house when you witness a launch in the Rocket pasture. The KLOUDBusters maintain safe distances which allow any set of pads to be launched from while others are loading. From a vantage point of a flat bed trailer located on the highest knoll of Rick Nafziger's farm, the LCO can easily scan the entire 40 acre launch range.

Midwest Power 9
October 28-30, 2011

Justin Farrand
Video Productions

NXRS 2011
July 1-3, 2011

The Northwest provides a haven for some of rocketry’s heavy hitters. It is in their off the beaten path launch locations where these facilitators of flight practice their craft. Have no doubt; this is high waiver and big motor country. The Northwest is where many of big rocket fliers who migrate annually to the Black Rock Desert cut their research teeth. They hone their motor making and rocket flying skills in seclusion to the east of Cascade Mountain range in a place where true rocketeers make full use of the 43,000 foot FAA waiver. The place is called Brothers and the launch is called the Northwest Xtreme Rocket Show or NXRS.

NERRF 7
June 24-26, 2011

The Northeast Regional Rocketry Festival, better known as NERRF lived up to its name as preeminent regional summer launch in the Northeast and maintaining a festival like atmosphere. The epicenter of activity was located on the massive METRA launch site in Pine Island, New York. NERRF 7 sent rockets screaming skyward for three days of continuous launching, under the Indy Format, where commercial rocket motors peacefully coexist with research rocket motors. Over 550 rockets from 1/4A’s to M powered Sod Shakers were blasted into warm, still skies officially opening the Northeast summer season.

Steve Eves - Vern Hoag
Saturn 1b
April, 2011

Two years of dreaming and planning had come down to this: launch day. While the conditions were anything but optimal, they were manageable. Both Vern and Steve expressed their willingness to prep the rockets and watch the wind conditions, as the mrning turned into afternoon. The MDRA launch organizers and the Higgs bothers concurred. By 10:00A.M. launch preparations were in full gear. Both twenty-foot tall towers were within fifty yards of each other and would provide a rocketryvista never before seen: two 800-pound 24-foot tall museum-quality Saturn 1Bs ready to be launched.

ARG 8 / Battle Park 2011
February, 2011

ARG is an event put on by the Arizona High Power Rocketry Association, AHPRA, headed up by Mark Clark and TRA BOD member Robin Meredith. Waysie Atkins is an integral part of the launch and shares the LCO duties with Robin. Jack Garibaldi was out onsite with What's Up Hobbies to cater to every rocketry need a flier could imagine with his fifty-foot store on wheels.

Battle Park launch site in Culpeper, Virginia returning to its former glory as a Mid-Atlantic epicenter of rocketry activity. Battle Park hosted the Federation of Galaxy Explorers, Battle of the Rockets Competition. The AIAA jumped onboard the educational competition bandwagon and sponsored an exciting high powered egg lofting challenge. All of the competition flights took place during a three day high powered rocket launch in the rolling hills of Virginia.