MASA - October 2009 meeting minutes


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October Meeting Minutes (10/2/2009)

The October 2009 MASA meeting was held on the 1st at the Science Museum

Turnout was light with 4 people attending the meeting.

Next Launch: The next regular launch will be October 24 at the sod farm near Nowthen. The launch theme is "odd-rocs". This will be the last launch of the year at the sod fields.

Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on November 5 at the Science Museum. Suggestions for a topic are needed! Nominations will open for 2010 MASA officers.

Stuff

The September launch was a success with 184 flights and nice weather.
An Outreach opportunity with Cub Scouts in Lino Lakes is coming up in a few weeks. There will be a build session on October 20 and a launch on October 25. More info will be sent out on the email list.
As always, contributions to the Planet newsletter are welcomed by Jeff!
Planning for the December holiday party has started. The date will be announced soon.

"Falling with Style" - a roundtable discussion of boost gliders and rocket gliders

The evening's discussion was all about rockets with a gliding recovery - the various types and styles of boost gliders and rocket gliders. For example, pop-pod, scissor wing, flex wing,

Alan Estenson brought several examples from Edmonds Aerospace - Deltie, Deltie B, Tinee, CiCi, and Ecee. David Whitaker also brought a CiCi along with a Quest Flat Cat and a Squirrel Works Red Baron.

Edmonds offers all sorts of boost/rocket gliders. Most are very easy to build, inexpensive, and fly nicely. They also offer some models that are higher performance, more challenging to build, and contest-oriented. We talked about kit offerings from various other companies, too - Estes, Quest, Semroc, Squirrel Works, etc.

We also briefly discussed radio controlled rocket-boosted sailplanes.

For more information on glide recovery of model rockets, see Chapter 13 in the Handbook of Model Rocketry.

(Alan Estenson)