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July – August 2003

Fly Safe, Fly Fast, Fly High!1

Northern Virginia Association of Rocketry

Free Press

A Real Crowd Pleaser!Jeff Perry’s BSD Thor takes off on July 4th at Great Meadow. See inside for details of the demo, and Jeff’s description ofrocket recovery conditions. (photo by Jeff Perry)

TOTAL RECALL

NOVAAR voted to recall theentire slate of club officers.

(Details on page 2)

NARAM 46 will be in the Washington DC Area (see details on pages 2 and 5)

Model Aviation Park in Fairfax County?(see page 3 to see what you can do to make it so)

Northern Virginia Association of RocketryJuly - August 2003


NOVAAR FREE PRESSJuly - August 2003

Editor: Greg Bock

The NOVAAR Free Press is the official newsletter of theNorthern Virginia Association of Rocketry, NAR Section205. Subscriptions are included as part of the membershipdues.

Send submissions to:Ken Brown

7021 Forest View DriveSpringfield, VA 22150-3120

Submissions can also be sent electronically to:[email protected]

NOVAAR Officers

President: Trip Barber ( [email protected])Secretary: John Hochheimer

([email protected])Treasurer: Roger Hillson ([email protected])Senior Advisor: Ken Brown ([email protected])

Ken Brown7021 Forest View Drive

Springfield, VA 22150-3120

Visit NOVAAR’s Web site at:http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8561

Or better yet….

ATTEND NOVAAR MEETINGS!

NOVAAR holds meetings twice a month. We meet the first andthird Tuesday from 7:00 PM to 8:30 at the Kings Park CommunityCenter in the Kings Park Shopping Center. The shopping center isin North Springfield, two miles outside the Beltway (I495) at theintersection of Braddock and Burke Lake Road.Dues are $5.00 per year for ages 13 or younger, $8.00 per year forages 14-18, and $10.00 per year for age 19 or older. Themaximum yearly membership fee for a family is $20. Makechecks payable to "NOVAAR” and send to the Treasurer at:

Roger HillsonATTN: NOVAAR RENEWAL

4317 Selkirk DriveFairfax, VA 22032

President’s Corner: Hosting a NARAMby Trip Barber

NOVAAR has been awarded the bid to host the 46th NARAnnual Meet (NARAM-46) at Great Meadow fromSaturday, July 31 to Friday, August 6, 2004. NOVVAR haspreviously hosted NARAM-16 and NARAM-31, both inManassas. Every 15 years it is "our turn" to put on theNAR's annual model rocketry championships and premiernational event. It's an honor to host it, and it's our duty todo our share of the work in supporting the NAR's programof annual national events to provide national-level flyingand comradeship experiences to all the members of theNAR. Jonathan Rains will be the Contest Director; he wasmy assistant when I ran NARAM-31 for NOVAAR, and hehas also been the assistant CD for a couple of otherNARAMs up in Pennsylvania. He is ready to "payforward" and do his part to support the NAR, and I ask thatall of us in NOVAAR support him in this.

Running a NARAM is a big project for any section, and forus it will be especially challenging because we are alsorunning the Team America Rocketry Challenge fly offs onMay 15, 2004. But NOVAAR has an exceptionally talentedcore group of adult members who have the skill to make bigevents work well. It takes about 10 people from the hostsection doing various tasks in advance of NARAM, andabout 15 working during NARAM, to run a really goodmeet.

Please volunteer to help with the advance work, and pleaseput NARAM-46 and its dates on your calendar as dates fortaking leave or vacation to help us full-time on the field, ifyou possibly can. Once every 15 years isn't too heavy aburden, and it's our turn to put our shoulders to it for thegood of the NAR and our hobby. Besides, a NARAM is notjust work -- it is fun, and all of us get to attend NARAM-46without those expensive airline or long-distance drivinghassles!

Club members who wish to receive important announcements oflaunches, meetings and other club activities should send their E-mail address to Roger Hillson ([email protected])

TOTAL RECALL

The club voted to recall the present slate of officers;to serve another one-year term, that is.

• President – Trip Barber• Recording Secretary – John Hochheimer• Treasurer – Roger Hillson• Senior Advisor – Ken Brown

Congratulations and condolences to all!!

Northern Virginia Association of RocketryJuly – August 2003


Fairfax County Model Aviation Park: Timefor Actionby Trip Barber

We have an opportunity to get a model rocket launch site inFairfax County, but I need your assistance in doing someletter and e-mail writing to help improve our chances.

The Fairfax County Park Authority is in the middle of ayear-long public site planning process for the former LortonPrison site, now known as "Laurel Hill". As a result of ourefforts in the early phases of this, the first "concept plan" forusage of this huge property has model rocket flying listed asa "periodic use" for a decent-size open meadow area in themiddle of the property. “Periodic use” means that we couldprobably get approval to launch there once per month,starting sometime in a year or so, if we make our launchesopen to all the public in Fairfax County. This would beconvenient for our club, and good for the hobby andNOVAAR membership, so this is a good deal -- if it stands.

There are many other potential users of the open space atLaurel Hill, and we are in competition with them to bewritten into the plan for the limited amount of open space.If their political power trumps ours, we could be "writtenout" of the final draft of the master plan. We need to makeour presence and interests known by sending e-mails orletters to members of the Fairfax County Park AuthorityBoard, and by posting comments on the public forum that isopen for the Laurel Hill site planning process. Our messageneeds to be that you appreciate model rocketry beingincluded in the draft Laurel Hill plan, all the many fliers(young and adult) in the Northern Virginia area have beenlooking for over 5 years for a place to fly the safe andeducational model rockets that they buy in local stores. Ifyou know specific examples of youth, schools, or othergroups that have had trouble finding a place to fly, pleasedescribe them as examples of a problem that will now besolved.

I recently sent all the club members an E-mail about ourneed to be pro-active in making sure the planners know ofour interest in a model aviation site. Included with the e-mail was an attachment describing in more detail how towrite, and then post or mail your message. We need astrong showing from NOVAAR, and from anyone else youknow (especially teachers and youth group leaders) who hastried to find a place in Northern Virginia to fly modelrockets. Please write or e-mail today.

NOVAAR Happeningsby John Hochheimer

If you missed the 19 August NOVAAR meeting, youmissed a good meeting. We talked about the Fairfax(Lorton) launch site, the launch plans for our August 23sport launch, and the upcoming Competition and Sportlaunch at Great Meadow on September 28. Steve Schwartzgave us an update on the Boy Scout Jamboree October 18.We nominated a slate of officers (Trip Barber - President;Me Secretary. Roger Hillson - Secretary, and Ken BrownSr. Advisor). These faces look familiar.

If you did not know, we are hosting NARAM 46 and will beplanning at every meeting over the course of the next year.Please come and help us to make this the best NARAMever!

We had a sport launch on Saturday Aug 23 and it wasspectacular. If you weren't there, you missed a great day atGreat Meadow to sport fly. The weather was fantastic, andwe flew lots of rockets-- big and little. Some of the morenotable happenings were:

• Roger and Doug Hillson flew their video rocket withonsite telemetry, a really neat flight. Roger promisesvideo at the next meeting.

• Greg Bock tested the limits of the field, flew the last eggin his house on a D egg loft bird to the edge of the field,where it lodged in a tree-- better watch the field comeNARAM, the right size chute will be critical for returns.

• Trip Barber flew a high power rocket and got lots ofexercise recovering it.

• Robert Edmonds and Sam Clark flew several RC gliders;Sam is a great pilot.

• Don Hooker and Steve Schwartz flew lots of rockets ofvarious sizes.

• I flew an Astron-Farside twice - once unstable in theupper stage fun to watch...

• And Steve Hrinko successfully completed his NARLevel 1 Certification. Steve went one better bycertifying using an “I” motor in his AMRAM rocket.The rocket went high and drifted far. Trip and I helped tozero in on the landing and Steve was able to bring ithome for the certification – congratulations Steve!



NRL Summer Interns Fly at Great Meadowby Ivan Galysh

This summer, I had three high school interns work for me atthe Naval Research Lab. Ryan Comes is a senior at ThomasJefferson High School. Nick Earle was a graduating seniorat Yorktown High School and is now a freshman student atthe University of Virginia. Pamela Torres is a senior atWakefield High School. Instead of giving them grunt workfor the summer, I decided to give them a couple challenging(and fun) projects to teach them about electronics,microcontrollers, and programming since much of my workrequires those skills and knowledge.

I assigned Ryan and Pamela a task to design and build arocket payload to collect acceleration, static pressure, anddynamic pressure data during the rocket flight. The data wasto be recorded in non-volatile memory. They learned how towork with a PIC processor manufactured by Microchip, andthey learned how the sensors worked. In three weeks, thetwo students built and programmed their payloads, and wereready for launch at Great Meadow.

I gave Nick the task to assemble and program a CanSat thatI was developing for a summer camp program. Nick wentthrough my course material and figured out how to programthe CanSat. After learning how the circuitry worked he wasable to get everything working for the July Great Meadowlaunch. Nick also developed software to integrate a GPSreceiver, but there wasn’t enough time to install it for thelaunch.

Saturday came, and everyone met at the field. We set up theHypertek hybrid launch equipment downrange at the highpower pads. I prepared the first rocket, a PML Black BrantX using a Hypertek J270 motor for Ryan’s payload. We setthe rocket on the pad and prepared for launch. The rockettanked, launched, and reached an altitude of about 2000feet. Since the winds were low, recovery was easy.

The next flight was Pamela’s payload. Her payload flew ona Loc/Precision stretched EZI-65 using an I-225 Hypertekhybrid motor. The rocket reached about 1700 feet, theairframe separated into 2 sections as planned, but theparachute didn’t come out, and the rocket tumbled down.Fortunately, at about 20 to 30 feet above the ground, theparachute came out and fully deployed. The deploymentsaved the EZI-65 rocket.Both Ryan and Pamela successfully collected static anddynamic air pressure and acceleration data

Nick’s flight used the same EZI-65 rocket, but with adifferent upper airframe. After installing the CanSat andturning on its telemetry payload, the rocket was ready forlaunch. Pamela and Ryan manned the ground stationhardware to collect the telemetry from the CanSat. After aspectacular launch, the CanSat deployed at apogee. Werecovered the rocket safely, and the CanSat drifted as itslowly came down. Unfortunately, the CanSat found treesand wound up on a branch about thirty feet above theground. Nick and Ryan unsuccessfully tried to knock theCanSat down from the tree. Telemetry was monitored onthe radio from the CanSat.

Rocket Payload designed and built byRyan Comes and Pamela Torres

CanSat Payload assembled and programmed by Nick Earle



Black Brant X rocket ignites on a hybrid motor. Note theN2O plume just above near the leading edge of the fin.

Nick, Ivan, Pamela, and Ryan pose in front of Pamela’srocket.

NOVAAR TO HOST NARAM – 46

It’s official—NOVAAR will host NARAM 46 at the GreatMeadow Outdoor Events Center July 31 through August6, 2004. NOVAAR’s own Jonathan Rains will be theContest Director.

The Contest Events Are:

• B Payload Altitude• D Egg Loft Altitude (C for A Division)• B Egg Loft Duration (C for A Division)• B Rocket Glide Duration• B Streamer Duration (multi-round)• 1/2A Helicopter Duration• A Boost Glide Duration• Sport Scale• Plastic Model Conversion• Research and Development (for points!)

Other Contest Events• Radio Controlled Glider Fun Event

The official NARAM – 46 Hotel is the Holiday Innlocated in Manassas. For those old-timers this was thehotel for NARAM – 31 held 15 years ago at ManassasBattlefield Park.

Visit the NARAM 46 Web Page for more details:

www.naram.org

The editor would like to thank the many contributors to this issue of the newsletter. Special thanks toKeith Wancowicz for creating the pdf version of this newsletter.

The editor badly needs articles for the next issue. Please consider drafting one about that new rocketyou are building, the rocket project you are working on or the meeting talk you give.



NOVAAR’s Third July 4th Demo

NOVAAR put on a rocketry demonstration at the annual 4thof July Air Show held at Great Meadow. The show, a bigfundraiser for the Great Meadow Foundation, involvesparachutists, aerobatics, wing-walkers, and other acts --including a rapid-fire high-power rocketry demonstration byNOVAAR. Depending on weather, the show attracts up to20,000 people.

NOVAAR’s Information and Rocket Display was mobbedthroughout the day. Joe Woodford (not pictured here), DonHooker, Rachael Brower, Steve Schwartz, and MichelleBrower ran the booth, answered questions and providedNOVAAR flyers and applications to interested people.(Photo – Jonnathan Rains)

Flightline(Photo by Mitch Guess)

Rocket Fleet(Photo by Mitch Guess)

Jonathan Rains, Don Hooker, John Hochheimer, Trip Barber,Jim Brower, Jan Kobialka & son, Joe Woodford, Jeff Perry,Eric Robinson, Rose Fichtel, Keith Wancowicz, Doug Hillson,Rachel Brower, Robert Kaplan, and Dan Winings



Over the past 3 years that NOVAAR has participated in theJuly 4th activities at the Great Meadow the weather hasplayed a cruel trick on the club members running the event.The first year several severe thunderstorm cells passedthrough the Great Meadow area raining on the volunteersand their rockets the entire afternoon. The second yearthere was no rain, but the heat index was outrageous, withthe temperature approaching more than 100 degrees and nowind. This year, NOVAAR’s third July 4th demonstrationlaunch, was as memorable as the previous two. While therewas no rain and there was less heat, higher than usualwinds, caused 10 of the 25 rockets the club launched to driftout of the field resulting in …..

The Day After…Rocket RetrievalFrom Hell

By Jeff Perry

On July 5th Eric Robinson and I went back to GreatMeadow to try and retrieve some of the 4th's drifters. Wewent through sheer hell in the process, and covered quite abit of ground. I found my BSD Thor “treed” about 90 feetup (that thing was really up there last night!). I met anarborist the next day to have it brought down. It will costme about $100! We found one of Eric's rockets also, andKeith Wancowicz managed to recover his unpainted BlackBrant. Still missing was his small AMRAAM.

In the process of trying last night to get up to where myrocket fell I thought I saw one of Trip Barber’s driftingdown behind the silo. We conducted an extensive search ofthis area, but unfortunately did not recover anything. Thiswas the worst search area of all! There were blackberrythorns and briars all over the place, and much of the area isa snapping turtle infested swamp with shoulder high Sawgrass. It was like walking through a sea of No. 11 Exactoknife blades. I couldn't believe we didn't see anythingthough! There was another rocket somewhere in thisvicinity too, but I believe it was further into the Cattailswith the Water Moccasins. We had no luck on this front.

After about an hour searching in this quagmire we followedthe utility line easement up to the field bordering the treeswhere I believed several of the rockets landed. The trip upwas like a steam sauna odyssey into oblivion. We borderedon heat stroke, with visions of search and rescue teamsfinding vultures pecking at our scorched remains in thefield. We covered quite bit of ground up off of O'Bannonroad. In the process we stopped at one of the private

estates, and gave the owner info in case future hayharvesters came across any rockets. The owner was veryhelpful, and invited me in for a cold soft drink and providedthe name of a local arborist. We searched the propertyextensively, trees, fields, but only found my rocket. Anadjacent landowner gave us permission to drive Eric's SUVup to the area where we had earlier marked the tree.

The area outside the Great Meadow property is a veryformidable one. I recommend a thick fabric long sleeveshirt, waders or high neoprene boots, and gloves to help younavigate through the ground cover, thorns, muck and otherstuff.

Jeff with BSD Thor before 4 July demo launch.



From the Belly of an Airplane: Galaxies

by Dr. Tony Phillips

On April 28th a NASA spacecraft named GALEX leftEarth. Its mission: to learn how galaxies are born, how theygrow, and how they die.

"GALEX-short for Galaxy Evolution Explorer-is like a timemachine," says Caltech astronomer Peter Friedman. It cansee galaxies as far away as 10 billion light years, which islike looking 10 billion years into the past. The key to themission is GALEX's ultraviolet (UV) telescope. UV rays area telltale sign of hot young stars, newly formed, and also ofgalaxies crashing together. By studying the ultraviolet lightemitted by galaxies, Friedman and colleagues hope to tracetheir evolution spanning billons of years.

This kind of work can't be done from the ground becauseEarth's atmosphere absorbs the most energetic UV rays.GALEX would have to go to space. To get it there, missionplanners turned to Orbital Science Corporation's Pegasusrocket.

"Pegasus rockets are unusual because of the way they'relaunched-from the belly of an airplane," says GALEXProject Engineer Frank Surber of JPL.

It works like this: a modified L-1011 airliner nicknamedStargazer carries the rocket to an altitude of 39,000 feet.The pilot pushes a button and the Pegasus drops free. For 5seconds it plunges toward Earth, unpowered, which givesthe Stargazer time to get away. Then the rocket ignites itsengines and surges skyward. The travel time to space: only11 minutes.

"The aircraft eliminates the need for a large first stage onthe rocket," explains Surber. "Because Stargazer can beused for many missions, it becomes a re-useable first stageand makes the launch system cheaper in the long run." (Totake advantage of this inexpensive launch system, GALEXdesigners had to make their spacecraft weigh less than 1000lbs-the most a Pegasus can carry.)

A Pegasus has three stages--not counting the aircraft. "Itsthree solid rocket engines are similar to the black powderrockets used by amateurs. The main difference is that thefuel is cast into a solid chunk called a 'grain'-about theconsistency of tire rubber. Like black powder rockets, oncethe grain is lit it burns to completion. There's no turningback."

In this case, turning back was not required. The rocketcarried GALEX to Earth orbit and deployed the spacecraftflawlessly. On May 22nd, the UV telescope opened itscover and began observing galaxies-"first light" for GALEXand another success story for Pegasus.

For adults, find out more about the GALEX mission athttp://www.galex.caltech.edu/ . Kids can read and see a videoabout Pegasus at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/galex/pegasus.html.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technologyprovided this article, under a contract with the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration.

NASA’S Space Place

Nancy Leon from NASA’s Education and Public OutreachProgram contributed the article above. NASA created theSpace Place program to give the public the opportunity toexplore the space program's technological advancementsand delve into its discoveries.

A component of that outreach, the Space Place column isoffered to select venues like rocket clubs. The columnincludes varied topics from all of the areas within NASA --planetary exploration, of course, but also observing earthfrom space, and even spin-offs from space.

The NASA Space Place program has two Web sites aimedat children but equally as fun and educational for adults.NASA invites you to explore this web site at

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov



Galaxy Explorers Building and FlyingSessionby Greg Bock

On July 16th and 17th NOVAAR members Joe Woodford,Ivan Galysh, Roger Hillson, Krysia and Greg Bock alongwith Doug and Brian Pratt from Pratt Hobbies participatedin the 2nd running of the Federation of Galaxy Explorers(FOGE) Summer Space Camp. The FOGE was founded asa means of inspiring kids in grades 4 through 11 to becomeinterested in pursuing college careers in space technology.Model Rocketry is only one segment of the two-weeksummer program that includes modules on robotics,physics, space art, aerodynamics, astronomy, and spacescience. Many leaders in industry and government hostthese sessions.

This year the program was held at the Thurgood MarshallSchool, just off Route 234 in Manassas. NOVAARprovided the assistance to the students in assembling therockets and the launch equipment and the range crew for thelaunch the next day. Pratt Hobbies provided the rocket kitsand the motors and igniters. Doug Pratt led the buildingsessions on the model assembly.

The explorers’ camp seemed to be lower key this year. Alittle over fifty, 4th, 5th and 6th graders participated in theclass—about half the number last year. This year therocketry part of the program spanned 2 days; the rocketswere built on the first day, and launched on the second.This was an improvement over last year when building andlaunching took place in a morning session, limiting theamount of time the glue on the models had for drying.

Unfortunately, the field at Thurgood Marshall is nowherenear the size of the one we had last year at Sanders MiddleSchool. Our choices were a single soccer field surroundedby trees, or two baseball diamonds with houses on one sideand the school roof on the other.

The group was divided into two consecutive classes ofabout 25 students each. Doug Pratt led the building sessionfor both classes while the rest of us helped the students withassembly of the rockets. This year’s model was the QuestViper. The model was easy to assemble for this age group,because it had a plastic fin can/launch lug assembly thatfriction fitted over the airframe. Assembling the parachuteseemed to give the most difficulty, and we should considerusing streamers on future sessions. The Viper flies on anA6-4 Quest motor to about 250 feet.

Early on Thursday morning Joe, Roger, Krysia and Greg setup the range. The winds were light, and we decided to usethe school’s baseball field for the launch. Joe and Rogertaught the classes how to prep the rocket and insert theQuest “tiger tail” igniter.

The launch went well, and the winds stayed very light atunder 5 mph. All 54 rockets launched great, with only oneleaving the field, Krysia Bock easily retrieved it. Duringthe launch, the school security guard watched the eventfrom the school rooftop. We all concluded that he musthave had prior rocket retrieval experience from schoolroofs. The light wind kept him from doing anything, but wewere sure glad he was there.

Joe Woodford and Krysia Bock run range while studentswait for their rocket to launch. (Photo by Roger Hillson)

Galaxy Explorers watch launch and wait for their turn toload their rockets on the launch pads. (Photo by RogerHillson)



NOVAAR meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month atthe Kings Park Community Center. Meetings begin promptlyat 7 pm and usually last 1-½hours. The Community Center islocated in the King's Park Shopping Center, Braddock Rd.and Burke Lake Rd. — two miles outside the Beltway inSpringfield. NOVAAR flys at Great Meadow - Travel on I-66to The Plains Exit #31; proceed south on Old Tavern Rd. (Rt.245) to enter the gate

2 September 2003 – Club Meeting at King’s Park CommunityCenter at 7 PM.

• Club Officer Elections• Eric Robinson - “Patents and Rockets”

16 September 2003 - Club Meeting at King’s Park CommunityCenter at 7 PM.

• John Hochheimer – “Special Materials for Model RocketConstruction”

28 September 2003 – Open Meet and Sport Launch at GreatMeadow; 9AM – 5 PMNICE 2003 Open MeetEvents:B Streamer Duration,B Rocket Glider DurationB Altitude1/2A Helicopter DurationContest Director: Joe Woodford ([email protected])

7 October 2003 - Club Meeting at King’s Park CommunityCenter at 7 PM.

• Jonathan Rains – “Model Rocket Gadgets” ClubMembers !! Bring in those special tools and gadgets thatyou use in building and flying your rockets.

11 –12 October 2003 – Steel City Smoke Trail 318 October 2003 – NOVAAR Support to Boy Scout RocketBuilding and Launch at the Flying Circus Aerodrome in Bealeton,VA 9 AM – 4 PM

21 October 2003 - Club Meeting at King’s Park CommunityCenter at 7 PM.

• Trip Barber – “Range Box”

15 November 2003 - Sport Launch at Great Meadow; 9AM – 4PM

13 December 2003 - Sport Launch at Great Meadow; 10AM – 2PM

UPCOMING EVENTS

A NAR Regional Competition & TripoliPittsburgh High Power Launch

October 11 & 12, 2003

Hosted by PSC #473 - Pittsburgh Space Command & TripoliPittsburgh #1Location: Near I-70 Midway Between Washington, PA & NewStanton, PALaunch Site: 600+ Acres Of Recovery Area - NAR SanctionNo. 1001-04R

Competition LaunchEvents: ¼ A PD (multi-round), ¼ A Streamer Duration, ½ ACluster Altitude, B Boost Glider, E SuperRoc Duration, RandomDuration

Awards: Trophies for 1st place in each event (Divisions A, B,C, and Team

Competition Range: Will be open Saturday from 9 AM to 5PM, and Sunday 9 AM to 2 PM.

Contest DirectorRod Schafer at (724) 845-7439

E-Mail "/events/SteelCity/[email protected]"Web Site:"http://www.psc473.com"

High Power LaunchFAA Waiver: 5000 ft. AGL

Range: Will be open from 9 AM to 5 PM On Saturday and 9AM to 3 PM On Sunday

Motors: Tripoli or NAR certified motor up through I withoutadvanced application, J motors require advance application /approval, subject to launch day flying conditions.

High Power ContactKen Good at (412) 373-2734

E-Mail"/events/SteelCity/[email protected]"/events/SteelCity/[email protected] Site: "http://www.rimworld.com/tripoli_pgh"



NOVAAR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Dues are $5.00 per year for ages 13 or younger, $8.00 per year for ages 14-18, and $10.00 per year forage 19 or older. The maximum yearly membership fee for a family is $20.00. Make checks payable to"NOVAAR” and send to the Treasurer at:

Roger HillsonATTN: NOVAAR RENEWAL

4317 Selkirk DriveFairfax, VA 22032

Roger can also be reached by email ([email protected]) and telephone (703-978-6957 evenings). Besure and put "NOVAAR RENEWAL" somewhere on the outside of the envelope, and enclose a copy of therenewal application.

Date ______________Please check one: ___ New Member ___ Renewal

NAME:_________________________________________________________________

DATE OF BIRTH __________________________________

STREET:_______________________________________________________________

CITY:_______________STATE:____________________ZIP:____________________

HOME PHONE:________________________________________________________

NAR membership number, if a member: _____________

EMAIL ADDRESS(Optional)_______________________________________________________________

I heard about NOVAAR from:________________________________________________________________________

Dues are for one year of NOVAAR membership and do not include optional NAR Membership.

Please check one category based on your age as of the previous July 1st:One: __ Age 13 or younger ($5) __ Ages 14-18 ($8) __ Age 19 or older ($10)



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CONTENTS

President’s Corner…………………………………….2Fairfax County Model Aviation Park: Time for Action.3NOVAAR Happenings……………………………..….3NRL Summer Interns Fly at Great Meadow…………..4NOVAAR’s Third July 4th Demo………………………6The Day After…Rocket Retrieval From Hell………….7From the Belly of an Airplane: Galaxies………………..8Galaxy Explorers Building and Flying Session…………9Upcoming Events……………………………………...10NOVAAR Membership Application…………………..11

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