Hey Gary, did you see that monster is 75lbs!!!
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On Dec 22, 2016, at 8:26 AM, Gary <gary-walker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.canopiesandtarps.com/scfrt.html
What about this type of tarp canopy?? I know they are heavier and more work
to assemble, but in talking to some folks, they say they cut the wind really
well. I've seen them at ldrs and they seem to stay put in high wind.
I've seen kits that include the fittings, tarp anchors etc. (Everything but
the poles) Then we buy the metal poles at Home Depot, Lowes, etc. Kits range
in pipe size from electrical conduit to metal chain-link fence poles.
GW
From: "Richard King" <drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:14:59 PM
Subject: [tccrockets] Re: TCC Presidents Report
While the size of our pop-up is great.........the price was great.........
the weight was great........ it was way too flimsy and probably already
damaged from the last windy day. Lesson learned.
RK
From: James Dougherty
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:05 PM
To: TCC chat
Subject: [tccrockets] TCC Presidents Report
Hey Folks,
Please find below some club updates for everyone and recap of discussions at
our Party.
Finance
As Richard mentioned, we have about $10K in the bank - some things we plan to
do this year
- Something nice for Steve
- New Wireless launch system
- New Trailer
- New PA with FM Broadcast
Other items folks think we need, let me or Aaron know.
Website -
We will go live after you guys test it out, please see below:
http://www.tccrockets.com/v2
Please visit http://www.tccrockets.com/v2 to give it a shot - make sure you ;
register and put just your name, email information in here and your account
will get approved if you've already signed up to freelists.org (which means
we have your info already).
Some cool features:
- New look and feel
- Banners we will update every month (I pre-populated what I can from some
shots I found worthy of front page)
- We will have auto-post FB syndication, a chat room, and the ability to post
articles
- All the content will be there, just slightly reorganized and with a new Fly
theme
- Members, they can post their own content and we can have all sorts of media
and videos to make it fun
- Build articles/forum - that will be there too
Like I said at the Party, all of you folks who take a lot of killer pictures,
I want you all to start posting on the new website and driving traffic to our
site and to facebook; it will get more people out at the launch and drive
team support and revenue. One thing though, if you took pictures at a TCC
launch, post to our site first, when it shows up on the TCC FB Page, you can
always share t to TRA or NAR.
The point is that if you took pictures at our launch, please have the
courtesy to give us credit for it since it will drive revenue to the launch.
New FAA Altitude Waivers
- Like I said, I'm working on getting more Altitude for us - no commitment
yet, but we will see
Prefects
Gary Walker and Bruce Rohn are our Prefect's, they swap turns every year or
so, it is a LOT of work.This year, Bruce is back and will be our Prefect,
next year it will be Gary. I want everyone to give all of these guys a great
thank you, they help everyone get their certs done, run a lot of the launch
and handle technical questions all day, most importantly they keep everyone
safe and sane and keep the launch running.
Special Projects
OO-Nike
This year, we plan to launch "Double-O Nike" - this will be a two-stage 2/3
scale Nike-Nike smoke (a complex P impulse) project which is over 20ft tall
and weighs about 300lbs. It will be powered by a CTI O5100/O4900 and we plan
to fly it at BALLS. Me and Jack G started this project and planned drag races
but never got around to it. Now it is Jack G, me, Scott Y, Rod L, Richard K,
Mike Smith, Bruce,, Gary, Aaron and an everyone else who wants to participate
to get this one flying at BALLS this year. We plan to meet after our next
launch at Rod's and then generally we will meet the 4th weekend of the month
(after our launch) in Fresno to build.
We can discuss more at January launch.
LDRS
Aaron, Rod and I are working on LDRS for 2018, we plan to get everything
together this year and when Aaron gets
the final go on the field, we can move forward.
First launch of 2017
First launch will be 01/21/17 (Saturday) - third weekend of the month for all
of 2017 - if you look at the website above
I have all of the launch dates for 2017 listed on the calendar.
Finally, I hope everyone has a great Holiday and a Happy New Year!
Best regards
-James
James F Dougherty
President, Tripoli Central California (Prefecture # 52)
TRA Records Committee Chair
TRA #11425 L3 TAP
jafrado@xxxxxxxxx
408-476-7391
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