1) Jerry Heffner, Michigan.
2) My backyard (works great for flying whenever weather is good, can fly through "G" power), but may join JMRC in the spring of 07. May try to Cert L1 this year....no NAR or TRA membership, but do belong to the AMA (R/C aircraft, belong to the Holly Cloud Hoppers club).
3) Started in 1977, flew until about 1988, then BAR once I discovered ebay had many old kits...bought a vintage K41 Merc-Redstone in 2001 and was hooked.
4) Have fun and offer what help/insight I can regarding what is needed within the hobby
5) Like to see much-needed new BP motor offerings (tired of the bland old A8-3, B6-4, and C6-5), especially some 18mm and 24mm port/core burners, and the continued release of retro-repro type kits. Help keep Semroc in business long into the future.
6) Engines (both BP and AP, LPR, MPR and HPR), Vintage/Repro kit building and flying, Clusters, and Sport Scale.

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Originally Posted by Carl@Semroc
As you join the team, add a brief resume to this thread so the other members know a little more about you. You might include such things as:
1. Real Name and City/State.
2. Local flying club.
3. Year started flying.
4. What you hope to gain from this experiment.
5. What you want the team to accomplish.
6. Your primary interest area (engines, rocket design, support, building, etc.)

1. Charles "Chas" Russell, currently in Fort Worth, TX, but originally from outside of Columbus, Ohio. NAR 9790 L1. Retired Air Force Master Sergeant missile technician.

2. Origianlly with the Columbus Society for the Advancement of Rocketry. Member of or flew against a section in Dayton, Birch Lane in Sacramento, Sections in Michigan, TACKY in Fort Worth, worked for North Coast in SLC, and serve as the competion loyal opposition to DARS. Moving around in the military leads to some strange...new friends.

3. 1967. First competition in 1968 and have never left the hobby.

4. Having seen, flown, and collected items during the First Golden Age, I am interested in the innovations brought on by the smaller manufacturers. With Estes, and to some extent Quest, being driven by a different market, I would like to see the new "old" guys do well.

5. I guess we will know in a few months. Personally, new and more motors to increase the variety of models we can fly.

6. Pretty much all catagories.

7. Worst bad habit? Pretty verbose (not to say that being verbose is pretty). Back to you, Jay...

"Greetings, programs!"
(Ten bonus points to whomever can guess the movie quoted...)

Thanks for the invite to join the merry band of Semroc mad scientists. I've built a couple of Semroc kits (Laser-X and Taurus) and I'm working on my first scratch-built using all Semroc parts (Centuri Rocket Times "Safat").

So, to answer the required questions....

1. Real Name and City/State.
Eric VanDommelen
Age 35
Milton, WI

2. Local flying club.
WOOSH, NAR Section #558

3. Year started flying.
Ummm, around 1978 or so. I got out of it when I went to college, but back into the hobby a year and a half ago when I was cleaning out the garage and found two boxes full (20+ models) of my old stuff.

4. What you hope to gain from this experiment.
I hope to gain a voice in the direction of what I see as the company that caters to the model rocketeer the most.

5. What you want the team to accomplish.
I would like to see a resurgence in the imaginitve designs that populated the hobby in the late 70's/early 80's. I love the sci-fi/fantasy stuff, and absolutely can't stand 3FNC. Boring!

6. Your primary interest area (engines, rocket design, support, building, etc.)
My main interests are coming up with new designs and building, but I feel I can contribute in other areas as well (decal drawing, layouts, etc.)

Thanks again!
Eric

TRON, with an early "John Sheridan" thrown in...



Just remember not to post SVDT designs on the "Scrounged" thread -- it might cause a rupture in the space-time continuum...

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(Jim Carrey over-the-top announcer's voice) "Thanks, Chas! And keep it *right here* for an apparently unlimited quantity of wall-to-wall Rocketry Talk... on the non-stop, never-ending YORF SVDT Chatterbox Marathon!"

(grinning like a madman while looking around) "Okay, who's next?"


Cheers,

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"Centuri Guy"/"Tau Zero"
YORF Member 28
Semroc SAM #0029
NAR 86131


"I think about organizing things all the time. Never seems to happen. I find something that piques my interest and I'm off on a quest. Or a Centuri. "

--Bill Eichelberger, 02/22/2022


“Centuri fret buzz in an updated form.”
Bill “Wallyum” Eichelberger re: Estes Flutter-By
03 Sept 2014

Not ME!

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

Wow. That would take a big truss.

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NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark

Yeah, well, you're only entries number 1 and number 3 on this thread.


Cheers,

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Jay Goemmer
"Centuri Guy"/"Tau Zero"
YORF Member 28
Semroc SAM #0029
NAR 86131


"I think about organizing things all the time. Never seems to happen. I find something that piques my interest and I'm off on a quest. Or a Centuri. "

--Bill Eichelberger, 02/22/2022


“Centuri fret buzz in an updated form.”
Bill “Wallyum” Eichelberger re: Estes Flutter-By
03 Sept 2014

I can belch the alphabet. Would that help?

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark

1. Real Name and City/State.

Romie Lucas, Savannah GA

2. Local flying club.

There is a club here but I've been too busy to get in touch with them. I am formerly a member of SoAR in Atlanta (where I lived for many years). Mostly I fly with my friend Bob who has been flying with my since I was 14 years old.

3. Year started flying.

1972

4. What you hope to gain from this experiment.

Connection to others of similar interests. Perhaps to actually contribute something meaningful along the way.

5. What you want the team to accomplish.

Variety. When I started in rocketry as a boy, it seemed there were so many different aspects to the hobby. For many years it seemed that the only real progress in the hobby was bigger and bigger models and motors. I want small rocketry to be interesing again.

6. Your primary interest area (engines, rocket design, support, building, etc.)[/QUOTE]

Rocket Design, prototyping and building