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Prefect Bill Wagstaff, Secretary/Treasurer Teresa Wagstaff and Member at Large Glenn Mitchell attended the Upstate Research Rocketry Festival at Potter, NY from June 9 – 11. The weather was fairly good, with only a limited amount of haze remaining after the smoke from Canadian forest fires the previous week. A certain amount of haze can be seen in the photo above. The group’s flights were entirely successful, boding well for their planned pilgrimage to Wisconsin’s Richard Bong State Recreational Area for LDRS 41 in a few weeks.

Annual AGM October 14, 2017

Posted on October 8, 2017 by JF Cote

Our annual AGM will be at the Stittsville Legion from Noon to 18:00 on October 14, 2017.

Yes we are still alive!

Posted on July 23, 2017 by JF Cote

It has been a long time since we posted in this section. Please rest assure that our club is active. The best way to see what we are up to is to have a look at our Yahoo discussion group or our Facebook group: Ottawa Rocketry Group

We keep our launch Calendar up to date. Normally we post our calendar for the year in January.

Carp Airport Family Day, August 29th 2015

Posted on August 28, 2015 by billg

The Ottawa Rocketry Group is participating in the upcoming Carp Airport Family Day on August 29th. There will be Bi Plane Rides, family rides, charity BBQ with proceeds to Rogers House, Carp restaurants show casing their fare with free samples, warbird and vintage aircraft static displays as well as newer aircraft on display.

Grounds are open at 9 AM and the event runs until 4 PM. Rocket and RC Airplane demonstrations begin at 12 PM.

More details here: Carp Airport Family Day Facebook Event Page

Launch May 10th, 2015 Cancelled

Posted on May 9, 2015 by billg

Since it’s Mother’s Day, we are canceling the launch for May 10th. Get your rockets ready for the next launch on May 24th.

Photos and video from April 26th launch

Posted on May 7, 2015 by billg

Another great launch although it was slightly breezy. Big thanks to Perry and Sons for finding my engine casing! JF recorded the following videos:

Photos taken from the launch:

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ORG Launch April 26, 2015

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Launch today, April 26th is a go

Posted on April 26, 2015 by billg

Photos and video from April 12th Launch

Posted on April 15, 2015 by billg

A great day for a launch! We had warm weather and light winds for the morning, at least. The grass is low and recovery was easy this time of year. Photos:

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ORG Launch April 12 2015

A beautiful spring day with light winds in the morning. It's a great time to launch because the grass is low and recovery is much easier.

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Dario recoded this on board his LOC Iris:

LOC Iris on G79-Smokey -12 Apr 2015 from Dario Sciola on Vimeo.

Daniel provided the following video of Dario’s launch:

Launch April 15th 2015 is a go

Posted on April 12, 2015 by billg

Looks like a nice day. Bring boots since I suspect it will be muddy and we might even need sunscreen this afternoon!

Details of the launches are here: https://www.ottawa-rocketry.org/launches/

See you at parking lot P1 at 9:50 AM.

Launch today, March 29th, 2015, a success!

Posted on March 29, 2015 by admin

Today was a nice spring day. Although it started out cold we had bright sun and light winds. We had a good turn out with the usual hardy Winter launchers present.

A few interesting events, as with every launch, Greg P almost lost his postage stamp rocket in a tree, John C has a nice CATO which we caught on camera, and Bill G has a nice new zipper on his LOC IV.

Check out the picture album. Here’s video of just a few launches: