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 Rocketry Product: Rock-A-Chute - Mark II {Kit} [1956-1957]

Blast From The Past: BAR Rocket Fleet - #107 Carlisle Mark II 'Rock-A-Chute' (2017-03-29)

  Sport Mode   Scratch-built per published plans  In Model Rocketry Magazine, May 1970   Designed by: Orville Carlisle   Single Stage 13mm Engines ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: Launch Date: 30 March, 2017 (2017-03-30)

  Today’s weather forecast for the front range of Colorado called for temperatures in the low sixties and minimal wind, being the only nice day between Spring snow storms.   I ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: NAR 60 Year Reunion, Part 15 - One Final Display (2018-08-14)

The last item on the row of meeting room tables was my own small display of NARAM-11 ephemera.    Included was an official meet program that was distributed to visitors to ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: Maiden Flight of the Mark II Rock-A-Chute (2018-08-20)

For this post, I thought I would back-track a couple of years to November 3rd, 2016, the day of the maiden flight of the Mark II.  This is the same bird I took with me to the NAR Reunion in ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: Launch Date: July 6, 2019 - A day in Pueblo (2019-07-09)

    Today, fellow Castle Rock rocketeer Jim Gazur and I packed up the car with rockets and headed south   - 90 miles away to Pueblo, Colorado – to participate in a sport ... [Read More]