YEAR IN REVIEW

Bluegrass 2017 Review

In 2017, 6 Club launches and 1 Uof L Practice session were held.

Number of launches in each of the 12 months

January - 1 U of L Practice Launch
February - 1 Launch
March- 0 Launch
April - 1 Launch
May - 1 Launch
June - 0 Launch
July - 1 Launch
August - 0 Launch
September - 0 Launch
October - 1 Launch
November - 1 Launch
December - 0 Launch
Total - 7 Launches

We held 6 club launches and 1 U of L launch during the 2017 flying season. It was a good year for the club and much better than the previous year.

Launch attendance increased from 13 flyers in 2016 to 48 in 2017, an increase of 35 or 269%.
The number of rocket flights in 2016 was 27 and in 2017 it was 147 an increase or 120 or 444%.
In 2016 the club burned 30 motor and in 2017 it burned 163 an increase of 133 or 443%.
In 2016 10,556 N-sec of power was generated but in 2017 it increased to 29,651 N-sec, an increase of 19,095 N-sec or 181%.

List of 2017 Accomplishments

Membership now stands at 72 .
There were four Certification flight successfully completed.
- L1
  - February 18th - David Eilken - David's Rocket (I435)
  - October 14th - Jerett Coyle - Scratch Built (I445 vmax)
  - November 11th - Ducan Sellberger - Winter Wonderland (H120-9A)
- L2
  - October 14th - Matthew Cosgrove - Scratch Built (L990 BS)s
Congratulations to all and welcome to the world of High Power Rocketry. Also called high dollar rocketry.
48 Fliers put up 147 Flights this year.
163 motors were burned this year which is up by 35 motors from last year.
The Total Impulse was 29,651 Newton-Seconds which was up by 19,095 N-S.
We had some unique rockets and some unusual flights.
All in all this year was successful for the club. Thanks Ed for all the help you provided this year. Without you we would not have had the success we had this year. Hurray for Ed.
We are getting older and new blood and brawn is needed to keep this club alive. Hopefully there is still enough interest to keep the club active and getting it to grow. It's up to you to do that.

2017 Officers

President - Dennis Stevens
VP - Jeff Calwell
Secretary/Treasurer - Joe Magginnis
Webmaster - Joe Magginnis
SR Adviser & LCO - Ed Seward
Prefect - Darryl Hankes

Data for 2017

Event	Date	Location	Fliers	Flights	Motors	N-Sec
BlueSkies107	2/18	Sod Farm	7	22	25	17,425
BlueSkies108	4/02	Sod Farm	7	19	19	1,211
BlueSkies109	5/13	Sod Farm	3	26	28	371
BlueSkies110	7/15	Sod Farm	11	25	25	3,820
BlueSkies111	10/14	Sod Farm	7	17	18	4,680
BlueSkies112	11/11	Sod Farm	9	44	48	2,144
Totals			44	153	163	29,651

Now is the time to help the club continue to operate by giving of yourself. To show your support come to the launches and help with the tasks of setting up, tearing down and loading of the equipment. Volunteer to retrieve rockets. Spend some time in helping the RSO, LSO and Safety personnel. Learn about the functioning of the club duties. It takes time and energy to do these things and the old crew is wearing down with age and soon will not be physically able to continue.

Lets make this the best year yet - Get involved and Enjoy the Hobby.

Dues for 2018 will remain at $20 and this includes launch fees for the year.
Non-members will have a $5 launch fee for model rockets and a $10.00 fee for HP Rockets, 1st time fliers are free.
Children 16 and under free.

HAPPY 2018

Joe Magginnis
NAR 10720 L2
TRA 11793 L2

11/15/2017