June Meeting Minutes (6/16/2009)
The June 2009 MASA meeting was held on the 4th
at the Science Museum
A total of 8 people attended the meeting.
Next Launch: The next regular launch will be
the solstice evening launch on Saturday, June 20. [Late
breaking news! Due to a soccer tournament at the VFW, this
launch will now be at the Nowthen sod farm.] This will be a
model rocket launch (NO waiver).
The monthly MASA launch and MASA's first 2-day
regional contest will be held on the weekend of June 27-28.
Please see the contest page
for the details.
Next Meeting: The summer picnic will be
held on July 18 at the VFW soccer fields near Elk River.
Details will be posted on the web site soon.
Discussions
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NSL: Quite a few MASA people traveled to
the National Sport Launch in Wisconsin over the Memorial Day
weekend.
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TARC Finals: Ted & Buzz made the
trip to Virginia to volunteer at the Finals.
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FiTi Rockets: If you are building
rockets to donate for the Fly It - Take It at NARAM 51, please
get them to Carol at the June launch.
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Planet: Jeff has put together another
great issue! As always, he needs content for future
issues, so send some articles his way!
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The May launch was held on the 30th. It
was quite breezy. This kept attendance and the number of
flights fairly low.
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MASA members have assisted with several outreach
activities recently.
MASA Regional Contest
The topic for the evening was MASA's first 2-day regional
contest. Alan had prepared a
handout that covered the basics of contest flying and the
important rules for each of the events. We talked about each
of the events, suitable rockets, and potential strategies.
Caleb & Buzz both brought some contest rockets for us to examine.
(Alan Estenson)
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