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The Ranger says Plan to go ahead with your launch on Saturday and Sunday, August 3 and 4. The humidity looks like it will remain up the rest of the month. We have received some precipitation, but there are a lot of cured annual grasses out there. We’ve had two fires in the last couple of weeks. Neither grew very large, but there are areas that wi…[Read more]

Found this in an old Forum post.

If anyone is interested, here’s the link to Jason Cook’s N1100 flight.

Some of you might find it interesting to see accelerometer data from a high-speed failure

When a flew a minimum-diameter rocket on a J420 with a scratch-built nosecone on Sunday morning, the nosecone failed right around burnout. The front end of the nosecone broke off and took my apogee deployment charge with it. The apogee charge was there to…[Read more]

Taken from the North end of the flight line Saturday evening

Thanks George for uploading some awesome photos!

2019-07 High Skies in July

Another great weekend for flying in Colorado!

Launch logs are being entered, some records are already available.

2019 Flight Logs

Vic Davis doesn’t disappoint with his “Mary Poppins” umbrella rocket.

Members and Friends,

High Skies in July 2019 has received the green light from the US Forest Service for the coming weekend of July 6th and 7th on the Pawnee National Grassland at NCR’s North Site.  Our waiver will be a constant 20,000’ AGL, with “windows of opportunity” for higher altitudes shots on Saturday and Sunday.  We anticipate h…[Read more]

Hi all. I have been using my DC30 collar for some time. As usual never needed it when it was installed.

But anyway. I, in most cases have left the collar intact and attached it to my shock cord below my nose

cone. (Later builds, it is in the cone.) With great luck. The last launch I was at, had a chute tangle

and the collar impacted and broke…[Read more]