ATLANTA, Georgia USA — Nearly five years of behind the scenes work by one man in the state of Georgia has paid dividends, where the Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner has announced a state-wide exemption from explosive licensing requirements for the state's participants of hobby rocketry.

On October 1, 2008 on instruction from the Presidents of NAR and TRA, our legal counsel filed a motion with the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, requesting a hearing on our civil action against BATFE concerning their regulation of high-power sport rocket motors. 

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nevada USA — Curt Newport and Jeff Taylor successfully launched and recovered the "Proteus 6" rocket at the Tripoli Rocketry Association's experimental rocket launch.  Upon ignition, the fourteen foot tall rocket, weighing 170 pounds, accelerated to a velocity over 3000 feet per second.

Rogers Aeroscience is pleased to announce that the wide distribution of the RASAero aerodynamic analysis and flight simulation free software throughout the model rocket, high power rocket, Tripoli Research, and the alt.space/New Space communities continues with the 1000th download of the RASAero software. 

IRVING, Texas USA — The Squirrel Works Model Rocketry celebrates its 5th anniversary during the month of October. In honor of that event, we're pleased to release one of the most anticipated kits of 2008, Dogfight. The large booster is reminiscent of the B-25 Mitchell bomber with profile models of the legendary F4U Corsair and A6M Zero.

Move over Rocket Boys. The Rocket Girls are here! Michelle Pieler of Braden River High School, Bradenton, Florida and Alexandra Gordon of Palm Beach Day Academy, Palm Beach, Florida won the national Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest. The girls beat out all other entries in a challenging spot-landing event.

This edition of the Rocketry Planet How-To Classroom is based on the Estes Maxi Brute Honest John, a 1/9 scale model of the venerable ballistic missile.  In our second lesson installment, we cover the lamination of the replacement body tube using fiberglass sleeving.

LAKE HAVASU CITY, Arizona USA — Contrail Rockets has begun offering EX/Research fliers a new line of hardware for use with AP and hybrid motors.  All hardware is custom made for the flier and is made with the same high quality materials used in Contrail Rockets motors. 

VAN ORIN, Illinois USA — Wildman Hobbies is please to announce the release of their latest rocket — The Extreme Wildman. This high performance machine is 8-1/2 feet tall, 4 inch diameter with a 75mm motor mount. It is also set up for dual deployment recovery and will fly on anything from J to an M.

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