Schedule updates can also be found in our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/184563117320/?mibextid=c7yyfP
Note: Launches are subject to change! Start times and end times vary slightly by season and weather conditions. However, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (noon) are core launch hours unless otherwise noted. Please watch this space for further information. (Launches are generally confirmed by the day prior to the launch.)
If you would like to prepare your flight cards prior to the launch, please use the current MASA flight card:
2024 MASA Flight Card - Fillable version
2024 MASA Flight Card - Printable
August Launch – Saturday, August 24th, start time 9:00 am
Elk River/Rogers VFW Post 5518
VFW Memorial Sports Complex
7350 Quaday Ave NE
Otsego, MN
Theme: Berthas - Big, Baby, Staged or Super, bring'em all
*For launch theme-based drag races, the launch will occur with the first rack in the 11am hour, unless otherwise noted.
September Launch – Saturday, September 28th, start time 9:00 am
Elk River/Rogers VFW Post 5518
VFW Memorial Sports Complex
7350 Quaday Ave NE
Otsego, MN
Theme: Comanche IIIs - roam all over the Otsego plain to recovery your Comanche booster and sustainer stages.
*For launch theme-based drag races, the launch will occur with the first rack in the 11am hour, unless otherwise noted.
October Meeting - Thursday, October 3rd, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location is to be determined
Business meeting locations will vary based on library meeting room availability
Twice is Nice contest – at the July launch
Objective:
To fly one, and the same, two staged rocket twice at a launch for a combined total of air time equal to that of that launch days predicted high temperature (in Fahrenheit) using one black powder motor from each of the following designations – an A, a B, a C and a D. The competitor can choose the order of, and which motor will be in the booster and which will be in the sustainer.
Caveats:
1) The predicted temperature (target combined flights time) will be announced shortly after the launch pads are set up for the day, and posted at the top of the flight board so everyone competing will know what the target combined time of the two flights will be. Two volunteer fellow competitors will be timers, and each of their observed times will be recorded to two decimal places. Then those two times will be added together and averaged to two decimal places for each of the two flights. The two flights will then be added together for the contestant’s final score. The winner will be determined as the competitor that gets closest to the predicted high temperature, whether above or below the target temperature number, with the combined total of their two flights.
2) One flight must be recovered using a parachute and the other flight must be recovered using a streamer.
3) All rockets must have sustainers that are a minimum of 18 inches long/tall, and may not be more than 24 inches long/tall when the booster is attached.
4) All rockets must use boosters with fins and an engine retainer that will keep the booster motor from being “kicked” loose at the lighting of the sustainer, so that the booster motor is recovered with the booster stage.
5) All rockets must be painted/finished – no naked rockets.
6) No test flights on the day of the contest.
MASA Summer Picnic – Saturday, August 3rd
Folks are welcome to start arriving around 6:00 pm. Dinner is planned for approximately 6:30 pm.
Eagle Lake Community Building at Thoreson Park
6259 Eagle Lake Drive
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Attendee count as of 7/31: 12
Club members are bringing the following food items:
Dessert (Ken B.)
Cowboy Caviar & Chips (Neal)
Almond Cake (Kris)
Assorted jello fruit cups (Art and Renee)
Watermelon or fruit (Ted)
Ice cream sandwiches (Michael)
Coleslaw (Wayne and Ruth)