ORLAND, Florida USA — Angel Martinez, acting president of Sparrow Tech Rocketry, Inc. attended the recent LDRS 17, participating and taking pictures of LDRS rocketry events. A series of two stories are available in the online news page of the Sparrow Tech Rocketry website, detailing his level 1 certification, as well as pictures of other fliers and their rockets ships.

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah USA — They are truck drivers, salespeople, computer workers, doctors and accountants. They also are kids at heart and love to shoot high-power rockets thousands of feet into the air.

About 300 rocket hobbyists gathered on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats on Thursday to open a four-day national convention and launch hundreds of rockets, including some 18-foot monsters and scale models of Patriot and Exocet missiles. Some are designed to climb 25,000 to 35,000 feet at 1,000 mph.

CARLSBAD, California USA — Due in November 1998, ProPulsion 38 is a new model and high power rocket motors system. This 38mm motor system is re-usable and incorporates many fundementally new technologies and features that promise to make model and high power rocketry substantially more affordable, simple and reliable.

After an apparent flight failure at this year's LDRS 17 in Wendover, NV, Pratt Hobbies has announced a recall in the WEC-1 Ejection Canister.

In a lightning round of new product releases, AeroTech Consumer Aerospace announced today at this year's Tripoli LDRS launch in Wendover, Nevada that they were officially releasing their line of 76mm (3.0") motors, three of which are certified and ready to fly! The L1120, L850 and K560 White Lightning™ have been through the TMT testing cycle and are ready for consumption. Only the M1360 motor is still slated for testing. All four motors are available only in a plugged format and range from 2,560 to 6,400 Newton-seconds of impulse.