Thanks to the efforts of Dale Windsor, SoAR will once again fly at Mill Springs Academy. The first launch will be scheduled shortly.

We will be launching from the field with the track and tennis courts.

More details to come!

SoAR has gotten permission to conduct launches at the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center near Mansfield, GA (about 20 miles from Covington). We will only be able to have a few launches there a year due to hunting schedules. Our first launch will be Saturday, November 8.

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George Gassaway announces that Birmingham Rocket Boys (NAR Section #665) will host a one-day Regional on November 15 at the New Georgia Landfill just north of Birmingham, AL.

Events will be 1/2A Parachute Duration, 1/2A Boost Glide Duration, B Eggloft Duration, 1/2A Helicopter Duration, and Sport Scale.

More info can be found by clicking here.

On a Saturday morning in July, SoAR members Jorge, Laura, and Joe Blanco, Remi Stephan, John Adams, and Roy Green participated in a HobbytownUSA/Estes Make It, Take It event in conjunction with the upcoming movie FLY ME TO THE MOON and the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  Over fifty families came out to build either an Estes Bandit or U.S.Army Patriot, and by so doing get passes to a screening of the movie that day.

Things got very busy but everyone went home happy.  We hope all of the participants will come out to this Saturday's launch and send their new creations skyward!

Thanks to Hobbytown USA Kennesaw, Allied Advertising/Summit Entertainment, WAGA Atlanta, B98.5, and Estes.

Back in July, Steve Bellio and Laura Blanco represented SoAR on Fox 5 Atlanta's Good Day Atlanta show as part of a cross promotion with HobbytownUSA Kennesaw and NWave Picture's Fly Me To The Moon" in which three industrious house flies manage to hitch a ride to the moon on Apollo 11.

They were featured on four segments, which you can see on Fox 5 Atlanta's website.

At each SoAR launch, there will be a bucket (white, about 12" diameter) that is designated as Dale Windsor's Bucket O'Rockets. Land any part of your rocket in that bucket and you'll win a jackpot of rocket kits. If no one gets in the bucket at a launch, the prizes will roll over to the next launch, and another prize will (occasionally) be added!

The current list of prizes (as of May 2008):

• limited edition Roachwerks Saturn IB kit
• Estes SpaceShipOne
• ASP WAC Corporal
• Estes Scissor-Wing Transport (the newest re-issue)
• NOVA ASP