As discussed at the AGM, here is a schedule of dates for Summer 2007 Launch Meetings at the Fairlie Moor Site. This schedule is organised on the basis of Prime Dates and Roll Over Dates (if weather is unflyable on any of the Prime Dates), as follows:-

June
Saturday 2nd June Prime Date
Saturday 9th June Roll Over Date

Saturday 23rd June Prime Date
Saturday 30th June Roll Over Date

There are fve Saturdays in June this year, which allows two Launch Meetings in the month; this will also help us to catch up with our rocket flying after being grounded over April and May due to the lambing season and sundry Bank Holidays.

Juily
The UKRA 2007 national launch event will run from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th July, hosted by the Black Knights rocket club, at their Milson Site (which is somewhere in the Midlands) - details are available on the UKRA web site at www.ukra.org.uk The reason for mentioning this event here is to ask if any SARA members are planning to go to it? If few or none, then we could go ahead with a Launch meeting at the Fairlie Moor Site that weekend (i.e. 2 weeks after the last date in June). So, depending upon the answer to the question above, the SARA July dates are provisionally -

Saturday 14th July Prime Date
Saturday 21st July Roll Over Date

A possible alternative for July, to avoid "clashing" with the UKRA event is -

Saturday 7th July as Prime Date, and
Saturday 21st July as Roll Over Date.

August
Saturday 4th August Prime Date
Saturday 11th August Roll Over Date

And then of course we are into IRW 2007 - Monday 20th to Monday 27th August, with the associated Public Space & Rocketry Days at Kelburn on Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th August.

September & October
Allowing time to recover from the exertions and excitements of the IRW,

Saturday 15th September Prime Date
Saturday 22nd September Roll Over Date

Saturday 13th October Prime Date
Saturday 20th October Roll Over Date


This schedule of dates enables six Launch Meetings (not counting the IRW). If all six were accomplished then with the three already flown in February and March we would end the year with nine Launch Meetings flown at the Fairlie Moor Site (plus Aaron's very successful flights at Longbar last Saturday after the AGM), and if the weather allowed we might be able to have an additional one in November - we have done that before. In 2006 we had 8 Launch Meetings.

I hope that the above schedule of dates is clear enough. It would be very helpful if -

A) you could let me know your availability for the above dates (by phone or e-mail) as far as is practicable at this time, &

B) you could let me know if you plan to go to the UKRA launch event in July?

I hope that this schedule of dates will be convenient for everybody, and that over the months it will enable everyone to get in a good number of Launch Meetings and a good amount of rocket flying.


I am writing up the Proceedings of the AGM, and will send them out to you all within seven days of this e-mail.

I hope that you are all well.

Yours ever,

John B.