We don't know for sure that the morning soccer games are finished for the spring season. So it is possible we may need to wait a bit for the soccer players to finish before we can set up. Hopefully th

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Nice pictures. The pictures of the kids at the rocket building workshop might be better if placed in the Outreach and Education section. Jonathan

There were soccer players at the park this morning so we may have to wait a bit before we can set up. Jonathan

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We are also holding our workshop at the Leonhard Center in Champaign at 9 a.m. We currently have 5 kids signed up for workshop. We sometimes get another one or two who show up on the morning of the wo

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Our annual rocket building workshop at the Park District will be this Saturday, May 14 at 9 a.m. The workshop will be held at the Leonhard Recreation Center is at 2307 W. Sangamon in Champaign. We wil

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We have 4 people who have signed up through the park district, 3 kids and one adult. Your rockets will be good to show. Just to be clear, there is no requirement to sign up in advance. If you know som

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Our May meeting at the Springer Center will be this Tuesday, May 3 at 7 p.m. This will be our annual Introduction to Model Rocketry program. If you know anyone who might be interested in learning abou

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Our next meeting at the Springer Center will be on Tuesday, May 3 at 7 p.m. This will be our annual introduction to model rocketry. If you know of someone who is interested in learning about model roc

Weather Underground is reporting the wind in Rantoul as 17 gusting to 23. Other than that it looks like a nice day. Jonathan

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Perhaps we'll access the interweb and look at some of the pictures you have taken at our launches the past couple of years. Jonathan

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Periodically I will be deleting attachments from messages. Some of these are small, often invisible, images stuck in people's signature's and some will be larger images or files that are older. I have

Our April meeting will be this coming Tuesday, April 5 at 7 p.m. We have decided to hold this meeting in person at the Springer Center in downtown Champaign. The topic this month will be "Rocket Photo

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You can build a rocket with a motor mount larger than 29mm and then use an adapter. Many of the popular Level 1 kits have 54mm or 38mm motor mounts. That way you can fly it with larger motors after yo

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One thing to keep in mind is that while it is possible to fly an H motor at Dodds Park, not all motor and rocket combinations will work there. Our waiver at the park is 4000' MSL which works out to ab

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Sounds like a topic for the business meeting on Tuesday. Jonathan

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Litchfield is probably 2 hours of driving for most of us. That doesn't rule out helping, but makes it a bit of a challenge as Gary says. I might be up for a road trip depending on the date and time. H

Here is the invitation for the Zoom meeting on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. Jonathan ----- jsivier@... is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: CIA March Meeting Time: Mar 1, 2022 07

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Our March meeting will be this coming Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. For a variety of reasons we have decided to hold this meeting on Zoom. We do hope to start holding our meeting in-person on a regular b

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Chris Deem is an Aerotech dealer. He is at all of our launches and usually has some motors available. He places group orders for club members a few times a year at a small discount from list prices. O

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You are correct that the pressure relief holes should be in the main part of the rocket body. Their purpose is to allow the air in the parachute compartment that is at ground level pressure at launch

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