UPDATE as of 2:00 p.m. on Friday, July 24 - tomorrow's launch has been postponed until Saturday, August 1.

July Launch  - Saturday, August 1, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm 

Elk River/Rogers VFW Post 5518

VFW Memorial Sports Complex

7350 Quaday Ave NE

Otsego, MN

Monthly Theme: Contest flying. 

The first contest will be MASA’s Survival of the FITI-est. How many times can you put your rocket into the landing zone and at the same time, how many times can you fly the same rocket at one launch? MASA will supply the engines while they last.  Rules are listed below, in the section titled "Survival of the FITI-est Contest."

The second contest will be the monthly NAR Land the LM Contest. Try to land your rocket closest to Tranquility Base. 

The third style of contest flying comes about because of the postponement of NARAM 62.

With the postponement of NARAM-62, we will not be able to get together to fly national competition in person this summer.  So let's get together "virtually" in a postal contest and practice our competition skills on the events that will be flown at NARAM-62 when it happens next year!   We will be holding a Manufacturer's Forum, in addition to the NAR Town Hall.  

The postal-contest "NARAM" will be a relaxed, completely unofficial activity featuring all six of this extended contest year's National Rocketry Competition (NRC) events, which are listed at  https://www.nar.org/, plus 1/2A Flexwing Duration, Sport Scale, and C Superroc Altitude (flown with altimeters).   All flights must be flown sometime between Friday, July 10 and Monday, August 23.

There are some special rules for this virtual NARAM:

 You can time your own models and process your own altimeter readings

 The return rule for duration events is waived

 Time the whole flight for duration events, unlike NRC competition there is no"maximum"

 You can fly as many times as you like, your best score counts

You do not have to register your "virtual NARAM" launches as official NRC launches, but you can do so if you want to have your flights also count for the NRC Scoreboard  https://www.nar.org/nrc-  for the contest year.  (Duration flight scores reported for NRC purposes would be limited to the "maximum" value, of course).  

Complete details can be found at: https://www.nar.org/site/

Don Carson fulldec2001@yahoo.com and Chris Flanigan ccflanigan@alum.mit.edu are the

contest directors for this postal contest, contact them if you have questions or suggestions.  We hope this helps the NAR community enjoy some of the fun of a NARAM, and perhaps attracts some participants who have never been part of a NARAM before.”

August Meeting – Annual Picnic - Saturday, August 22, 2020, 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Elk River/Rogers VFW Post 5518

VFW Memorial Sports Complex

7350 Quaday Ave NE

Otsego, MN

August Launch  - Saturday, August 29, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm 

Elk River/Rogers VFW Post 5518

VFW Memorial Sports Complex

7350 Quaday Ave NE

Otsego, MN

Theme: This month we revive our annual Comanche 3 drag race. Bring out your favorite multi-stage rockets to add to all the boosters raining down on us at this launch. We will also run the monthly NAR Land the LM Contest.  This is also the deadline to enter the Looney Tunes Contest for the September Launch

The July 25, 2020 Launch will include MASA’s Survival of the FITI-est contest. How many times can you put your rocket into the landing zone and at the same time, how many times can you fly the same rocket at one launch? MASA will supply the engines while they last. 

1. Using the flight lines, ropes and posts, MASA will make an irregular shaped landing zone for the contest rockets to land inside of. 

2. If any part of a rocket lands inside of the landing zone, then the flight card for that flight gets put into a "bucket" so that a winner can be drawn from the bucket at the end of the contest. The more times you land inside the landing zone, the more opportunities you have for being selected for the grand prize. Prize number 1.

3. MASA will be supplying the engines for this contest. As a club, we have started to accumulate a rather larger number of FITI (Fly It, Take It) motors that we need to use up. When a contestant checks in his or her rocket before the flight, they will have an opportunity to select an engine to use for that flight. MASA will also be supplying the ignitors for these engines.

4. Part of the intrigue with this contest is the fact of trying to launch the same rocket over and over again to see how long it could survive multiple launches of old FITI motors, knowing full well that there could be a Cato or two along the way. Even if the rocket does not land inside the landing zone, the launch could count towards the longevity award. Prize number 2 – will be awarded to the rocket that flies, or attempts to fly, the most number of times using FITI motors. 

5. Prize number 3 - The final prize to be awarded would be the contestant that launch day that had the greatest number of Catos during the day, regardless of the number of rockets flown/attempted to fly.

6. Art, the contest director, will be positioned under a canopy where each contestant will need to check in before every flight, and after every flight that lands in the landing zone so that the appropriate flight card can be placed into the bucket to be drawn from at the end of the day.