Category Archives: Launch Reports

2023 Cleanup Party report

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Our 2023 Cleanup party was this past Saturday and what a beautiful day it was! In Attendance: sorry if we missed anyone MaryBeth Clune Bill Clune Analise Clune Dan MacNeal Deana MacNeal Tom McCarthy Michelle McCortney Dan McCortney Miles McCortney Dave Stranton Dave Plankenhorn Larry Wakeman Don Howe Evan Brown Bill and Tom got a bit of a late start pulling out the club trailer (Bill forgot the hitch) with that resolved everyone dug in. Team McCortney having the most experience with the pads jumped right into disassembly and lubing … Continue reading →

FriendsGiving 2023

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What a Glorious weekend it turned out to be. With temps in the mid to upper 70’s the only thing that could put a damper on the flying was WIND and did we have wind! Gusts were so strong HP flying was mostly not feasible, but that didn’t stop us from having over a 150 flights! Robert Hilton came all the way from CT with his nearly completed “TikiBar” rocket trailer. Everything you could imagine from rocket storage to a cappuccino machine, he even made a seat strong enough for … Continue reading →

NYPOWER 23

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After waiting a YEAR NYPOWER-23 is in the books! May 29 – 31 2021 Setup day was a rough one and that is being KIND! Cold, rainy and windy! It was so bad that we must give a personal shout out to these people! Dennis Jurus MaryBeth Greg Young Michelle McCortney Miles McCortney David Plankenhorn Larry Wakeman Tom Broad Covid put a hamper on many things even the ability of the museum to mow the grass, which continued into this spring.  Bill Clune came out Wednesday in a vein attempt … Continue reading →

2020 Launch Report (Summary)

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Normally we have a monthly launch report but with Covid really hampering all of our activities we will most likely have a summery at years end! Hopefully 2021 will return us all to normal and we can host NARAM-62 with an * at the end…. As Promised the 2020 Launch Summary Thanks to Mike Pleban for compiling the data. Covid really put a hampering on activities, we had to cancel NYPOWER, with all the work of planning and prepping for NARAM62 that had to be cancelled/postponed as well. Many Thanks … Continue reading →

October 2019 (Fall Finale) Launch Report

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By Mike Pleban This weekend we had a great flying weather with plenty of sun and of course some wind, as always. There were brief bouts with some rain early evening Saturday and a brief shower Sunday morning. Saturday evening we had our potluck dinner with a lot of delicious dishes. There were lots of good flights, and some disappointing ones. I counted at last 4 motor cato’s, mostly E12s, and E9s, I may have missed 1 or 2. We had a couple troops of scouts who were going for … Continue reading →

August 2019 Launch Report

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by Mike Pleban For those that braved the weather forecast on Saturday, you know that we flew for a few hours, then stopped around noon because rain was coming!! Boy did It rain and rain until about 1:30, although it did clear up most everyone had already left and the field was a bit mushy! Sunday the weather was a lot better, plenty of sun very calm wind but it was quite warm and muggy, you needed to drink plenty water. Although the winds were perfect it was just to … Continue reading →

Apollo 11 Launch Report

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by Mike Pleban, MaryBeth & Bill Clune photos by Rick Cornell Our July launch was very special, it marked the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. NAR requested all its Sections to schedule a launch that day to commemorate that amazing accomplishment! In order for us to be able to do this, we had the privilege to share the field with the Flying Aces a “free flight” model airplane event much like NSL. What a great way to see and share our hobby with other hobbyists and  visa … Continue reading →

August 2018 Launch Report

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On Saturday August 18, The weather was cloudy with a decent wind going. Sunday was better with partial cloudy skies and less wind. We also had a visiting boy scout troop 667. They learned how to prep their rockets. They were shown how to pack the wadding, chutes or streamers, and how to prep the engines. them they were guided through field safety and how to fill out there flight cards. I then ran them through their safety check. they then went the pads were someone else guided them at … Continue reading →

July 2018 Launch Report

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On Saturday setup was done in the morning. We had cloudy conditions and lots of wind. We still had plenty of launches even with the winds. We did shut the range down around 3:30 on Saturday due to wind gust over 20 mph.Sunday was totally different, we had plenty of sun and almost no wind at all.There was One level 2 Cert. Flight on Sunday by Owen Toureo.Dennis flew His  X-15 On an L. he added extra weight to nose and it flew straight as an arrow. The chute however … Continue reading →

June 2018 Launch Report

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WE had a couple great days for flying. There was a decent turn out for this weekend. More people than I was expecting. Saturday was high clouds and little or no wind, we were flying almost straight up and down all day. Sunday started out the same as Saturday,high clouds and little wind., but around 11 or 11:30 the sun came out and the wind picked up. We had a few TARC teams show up to do some practice flights, they were Buffalo Science Academy, Southside, and International school 45. … Continue reading →