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Any members wishing to submit photos should contact Colin MacLaren to gain access.

SARA are pleased to announce the dates of the 2011 Flying meetings. As with previous years we will be having a Prime date (P) and a Rollover date (R). In the event of us not flying on the Prime date, we'll attempt to fly on the Rollover.

SARA are pleased to announce the dates of the 2010 Flying meetings. As with previous years we will be having a Prime date (P) and a Rollover date (R). In the event of us not flying on the Prime date, we'll attempt to fly on the Rollover.

The next Flying Meeting is planned for 6th of June 2009.

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Dear Friends.

This is to confirm the arrangements for the previously proposed SARA Rocket Flying Meeting at the Fairlie Moor Site.

A NOTAM, to 15,000 Feet (4,572 Metres) Above Ground level (AGL) has been confirmed. Under this NOTAM our hours will be 1pm to 6pm. I have shortened the usual 1pm to 7pm period by one hour as it is getting darker earlier in the late afternoon now.

In view of the above hours all attending should get to the site for 12.30pm - 1pm if they can. Location of launch pads will be dependent upon the wind direction and strength as always.

Under the above NOTAM the meeting will be open to Model and High Power rocket flying. If anyone has anything experimental in mind or planned/in preparation for the October 20th meeting, be it a flight vehicle or a ground test, please let me know in advance, either this weekend or during next week. This is requested so that Site operational arrangements and experimental windows can be to some degree be planned in advance. The defintition of what is "experimental" is of course somewhat flexible, especially with our group of rocketeers. Best practice and judgement, drawing on our extensive collective experience - which I estimate to be around 120 man-years of very varied rocketry, and guided by the UKRA Safety code, will be applied at all times.

Weather permitting - wind & cloud cover in particular - Colin MacLaren hopes to attain a new Scottish amateur rocket altitude record of 12,500 Feet AGL. The present record is circa 9,000 Feet AGL set by Michael Caine at IRW 2007 with the weather rocket that he launched for the flight of Corpulent Stump.

For those of you not previously informed of the link, photos from the September 29th rocket flying meeting at the Fairlie Moor Site are now posted in albums at

http://sara.rocketry.org.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemid=28&g2_page=2

There are also photos from the IRW 2007 event in a separate album at this link.

I look forward to seeing as many of you as can come along on Saturday 20th October at the Fairlie Moor Site.

Yours ever,

John Bonsor,