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February 2003 Meeting Minutes (2/4/2003)
The February 2003 MASA meeting was held on the 4th
at the Science Museum.
Upcoming Events
- Our February launch will be held on the 22nd at Apple Valley
High School. We'll have a "fun theme" of egglofting.
Why egglofting in winter? We're joining several Team America
Rocket Challenge groups who will be making test flights, and
their challenge is to loft two eggs.
- Our March meeting is Tuesday, March 11. Alan Estenson will be
the featured speaker on the topic of 1 to 3 pound rockets.
- The Minnesota Rocket League will be holding a launch in June.
Contact Ted Cochran if you're interested in helping with the
launch. We'll be judging MRL team entries at the April meeting.
- MarsCon is offering space in their Science Room for a rocket
display. If you're going to be at marscon and would like to lead
this, see www.marscon.org .
Show & Tell
- Several people brought rockets and launch controllers to show
off.
Project
The remainder of the meeting was modifying Estes launch
controllers to run on 12 volts. Mark Thell lead this off by
passing out an article from the Sport Rocketry, Holiday 1996 issue
on this subject. The soldering irons were brought out and the work
began. Those of us who weren't rebuilding our electronics stayed
and talked rockets.
(Glen Overby)
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