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Home / Archives / News Archive 2000 / LawnDart Rocketry launches new online web store
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LawnDart Rocketry launches new online web store |
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2000 Archived News by LawnDart Rocketry
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Saturday, June 03, 2000 |
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ACWORTH, Georgia USA — Dale Windsor announced yesterday the completion of the new online webstore for LawnDart Rocketry. Windsor is building a rocket company from the ground up with his son and the new webstore marks the latest step in his company's growth. LawnDart got its original start when acquiring the rights to kits produced by Seattle Rocket Works, which include the mini Nike Smoke, the M.I.R.V. Gryphon and the SLAT/s.
The MIRV Gryphon features advanced Multiple Independent Rocket Vehicle technology. It consists of a clustered booster and four sustainer stages (IRVs) using 13mm mini-motors. As can be seen in the webstore's flight profile, the MIRV Gryphon launches as a unit. At booster burnout the four MIRV stages ignite and follow separate trajectories while the booster tumbles to earth. The IRVs are recovered under streamers. The MIRV Gryphon can also be flown in a two-MIRV configuration (recommended for first flights).
The most unusual aspect of the MIRV Gryphon’s design lies in the unique two-fin configuration of the MIRV stages, which allows the MIRVs to be packed closely atop the booster. Staging is accomplished using vented booster tubes. This technique eliminates the need to tape engines together, and is described fully in the Handbook of Model Rocketry. Each booster engine stages to its associated IRV independently of the others.
Windsor chose Atlanta, Georgia's uHostMe.com Internet Services as a web technology partner. uHostMe.com is owned by Darrell D. Mobley, also the founder of Rocketry Online, the rocketry-oriented Internet portal site. uHostMe.com's services provided to LawnDart Rocketry include web hosting and a database-driven online web store product that includes secure server access for processing credit cards online. uHostMe.com's ecommerce provider, CardService International, provides the payment processing gateway services.
According to Mobley, "I just want to provide needed Internet-based services to the hobby rocketry community, and through uHostMe.com, we are able to do just that. Dale and I have known each other since I moved to Atlanta back in 1996 and met him at a local launch, so it was a real pleasure helping him get his company to the next level."
About LawnDart Rocketry:
LawnDart Rocketry is dedicated to providing the model rocket hobbyist with fun, interesting kits to build and fly. We will endeavor to bring out new kits as time and resources allow. And we will make available selected kits from other small manufacturers.
LawnDart Rocketry also believes in sharing resources. So we share our masking tape and recovery wadding at launches, spend time with new and potentially new flyers, answer questions, check out rockets, and even lend/give away rockets and motors to newbies. LawnDart Rocketry also donates 10% of our pre-tax sales to Compassion International to sponsor children that are in real need.
About uHostMe.com Internet Services:
uHostMe.com Internet Services is a Tier One Hosting Solutions Provider, whose network is connected to multiple nationwide Internet backbone providers via routed redundant OC-48 (2.5Gb/s) lines, 48 times faster than T3. Their primary bandwidth provider is Qwest Communications, who built the first nationwide fiber-optic network designed for Internet Protocol (IP) applications and services.
This powerful combination of bandwidth and hardware enables uHostMe.com to support bandwidth-intensive applications such as electronic commerce & enterprise resource planning and allows them to offer a single-source for end-to-end Internet solutions with technical staff monitoring customer applications and equipment 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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For further information:
LawnDart Rocketry — http://www.lawndartrocketry.com
uHostMe.com — http://www.uhostme.com |
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