The Holiday Inn at California City is open. Ken Brown On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Rick Maschek wrote: > To clarify, that's $10 of the $20 entry fee will go for prize money and on > site 'camping' is allowed. They are building a new Holiday in in California > City about twenty miles away and there are many other places to stay in > Mojave. We are still working on the details. > > Rick > From: rickmaschek@xxxxxxxxxxx > To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [roc-chat] Re: BALLS 2012 > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:35:57 -0700 > > We will be going as part of a collective of several projects (mine a sugar > motor...of course) but may include my Red White and Blue project (Redline to > White Lightning to Blue Thunder sequencial motor) if I can get a good static > test before BALLS. > > We are also planning a sort of 'competition' at FAR for a weekend in > September (?) for those that are unable to attend BALLS for whatever reason. > It looks to be along the lines of closest to reach 50,000' without going over > the waiver, either experimental motors (solid, liquid, hybrid) or commercial > and limited to the first 50 entrants (due to time constraint) and with 50% of > the entry fee ($20) going to prize money and the rest as a donation to FAR. > For those of you not familiar with 'FAR' here is the website: > http://www.friendsofamateurrocketry.org/ > > We now have improved site facilities (bathrooms, showers, enclosed areas for > prepping rockets and are in the building stage for additional launch pads. > > Rick > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:28:29 -0700 > Subject: [roc-chat] BALLS 2012 > From: richard.dierking@xxxxxxxxx > To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > So, when is BALLS this year? Went to the AHPRA site, and it's not listed. > Who's planning on going, and do you have a project for the launch? > > Richard Dierking -- ROC-Chat mailing list roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx //www.freelists.org/list/roc-chat