Club News

Our April launch is scheduled for Saturday April, 13th from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm. It will at the Walter Farm in Dekalb, Il.

Tomorrows (3/16) launch has been cancelled do to poor launch field conditions. Our next launch will be April 13th in Dekalb, IL. at the Walter Farm.

Our first launch has been rescheduled for March 16th due to the forecast of rain and strong winds on Saturday, March 9th. The launch will be from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm. It will be out in DeKalb, IL, at the Walter Farm. You can find the clubs complete launch schedule on the website on the Launches page.

Our first launch is currently scheduled for March 9th from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm. It will be out in DeKalb, IL, at the Walter Farm. You can find the clubs complete launch schedule on the website on the Launches page.

We had a very good launch on October 8th, the weather was very nice, we had sunny skies with minimal cloud cover, the winds were in the 10 mph range with temperatures in the 60’s. We had a nice turn out, we had 15 Hi-Power launches with the largest being by Jerry Vida an Aerotech K535 motor. We also had two Level 2 certifications one was by Bill Stearns using a Madcow Rocketry Sensor with a Aerotech J270 motor. Bill’s flight was a perfect flight to about 1800′ and rocket was recovered undamaged. The other Level 2 flight was by Dennis McAuliff he used a Loc Precision Warlock with an Aerotech J425 motor. It was another perfect flight to about 2300′ and the rocket was recovered undamaged. We also launched the old club project rocket which was built in the early 2000’s and last flew in 2004. It was a DG&A Armageddon it was flown by Bob Jablonski on a J425 to about 1600′ it still flew great after all these years.

All the flights for the day flew excellent, you can check out the launch logs for more details on who flew what.

We also had a cookout at the launch with Bill Stearns and Tracy Ramsey handling all the details, so thank you to both of them for the extra work they put into making it a success. I also want to thank our on site vendor Bob Jablonski from County Line Hobbies for coming out to the launch with all of his rocket merchandise.

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the launch, I think everyone at the launch had a good time. Our next launch is scheduled for Saturday November 12th in DeKalb, I hope many of you are able to attend. We also have a meeting coming up on Saturday November 5th. It will be from 1:00 – 4:30 in meeting room “C” at the 95th Street Library, Naperville.

If the weather does not cooperate and we are unable to launch in November I want to thank everyone who attended our launches this year, I think we had a very good year overall and a lot of that has to do with all of the people who attended our launches.

Dennis McAuliff -President