Good Morning!

 

Our October launch is planned for this Saturday, 10/10 with a weather date of Sunday 10/11.  Gary and William are not available, so Brian stepped in to be the Prefect for this launch. 

 

Brian and I have been looking at the weather for the last few days and unfortunately the winds are forecast to be very high. Dave Snyder ran the drift cast model last night and it showed that the rockets would be carried over very long distances with standard drogue/main setups. Rockets with an apogee of 18,000 ft would literally land in Wisconsin. Even at 6,000 ft we would be at risk landing outside the waiver.

 

The forecast for Sunday looks much better, the surface winds are a bit lower and the higher altitude winds are significantly lower. The model shows landings all near the field.

 

It is early in the week and the forecast can change, but there is a high probability that we can not launch on Saturday and will move the event to Sunday.  There is a small probability that both days will be too windy to fly.

 

We thought we share this early so you can prepare. As always the final launch announcement will be Friday at noon.

 

Best regards

 

Carsten Franke

Treasurer of Tripoli Minnesota