WINDOM, Texas USA — The Dallas Area Rocket Society recently held a contest for rocketeers flying staged and clustered configurations of black powder motors called the Extreme BP Contest.  The event was rained out and moved to the DARS Turkey Shoot held November 18-19.

GERLACH, Nevada USA — Gene Nowaczyk earned a place at the head of the list this past weekend at the BALLS 15 launch on the playa of the Black Rock Desert.  Nowaczyk's rocket recorded an altitude in excess of 93,000 feet, giving him the record of the highest flight at a TRA event.

GERLACH, Nevada USA — The Black Rock Desert was the place to be this past weekend for rocketeers for the annual XPRS launch.  XPRS is the acronym for eXtreme Performance Rocket Ships, a name coined at a session in the AERO-PAC camp during the 2001 LDRS launch at Lucerne, California. 

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nevada USA — On September 29th the Civilian Space Exploration Team successfully launched the SPACESHOT 2000 rocket at 8:40AM PST from the Black Rock Desert. The vehicle trajectory was nominal up to burnout with an altitude of 40,000 feet and velocity of 3,205 mph.

CANON CITY, Colorado USA — Over 200 registered participants have decended on Canon City, Colorado for a week of rocket flying fun and competition. NARAM-42 represents a year of intensive planning and preparation by the COSROC and CRASH NAR Sections led by Contest Director Ken Mizoi.

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nevada USA — If you ever have the opportunity to go to Black Rock, jump on it! Its the best place I have ever been to for flying rockets. Thanks to the AESS guys for letting us tag along in their caravan, and thanks to my brother Brad, for driving his truck, and getting it all covered with Black Rock dust.

ARGONIA, Kansas USA — The Tripoli Rocketry Association's 18th national launch LDRS opened with a bang in remote Argonia, Kansas, fielding one of the largest opening day crowds in event history.  Here in the heartland of America, one gets the feeling of being close to the soul of Mother Earth.

ARDMORE, Alabama USA — Staged this past Memorial Day weekend, The National Association of Rocketry's National Sport Launch '99 has come and gone. I don't have a lot of range statistics to throw around, nor details of some of the most interesting flight I've ever seen.

LINCOLNSHIRE, England UK — On Sunday, April 4, 1999, Hugh Gemmell of the Sheffield Rocketry Association flew a PML Thunder and Lightning in it's two stage configuration with an AeroTech J570W in the booster and a J350 in the sustainer. This 2.6" rocket reached a recorded apogee of 10,010 foot from "Pete's farm" in Lincolnshire.

EDEN, Texas USA — Though it was only the first widely publicized event at this site, the Paradise 2 rocket launch hosted in Eden, Texas by the Hill Country Tripoli organization turned out to be quite a success. Held on Febrary 27-28 1999, on 1600 acres of West Texas ranch land about 30 miles east of San Angelo.