SoAR will hold its next meeting on Sunday July 13 at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Sandy Springs.

Just over 700 rockets were flown over Memorial Day weekend from the sod farm in Orangeburg, as SoAR and ROSCO/Tripoli South Carolina, with help from ROCC, put on the 2008 National Sport Launch.

More Later!

As many of you well know, we have had a big problem with the trees surrounding the Mill Springs site. Many rockets seem to be unnaturally attracted to the trees such that they come as close as they can to missing them, but still end up in them, way out of our reach.

But now, SoAR has a secret weapon. SoAR is now the proud parent of a forty-foot telescoping fiberglass pole used by fire departments for knocking kittens out of tall trees....imagine what it can do for our rockets!

The pole comes with ten-pound counterweights to make it manageable at full extension.

At each SoAR launch, there will be a bucket (white, about 12" diameter) that is designated as Dale Windsor's Bucket O'Rockets. Land any part of your rocket in that bucket and you'll win a jackpot of rocket kits. If no one gets in the bucket at a launch, the prizes will roll over to the next launch, and another prize will (occasionally) be added!

The current list of prizes (as of May 2008):

• limited edition Roachwerks Saturn IB kit
• Estes SpaceShipOne
• ASP WAC Corporal
• Estes Scissor-Wing Transport (the newest re-issue)
• NOVA ASP