I have just checked the BBC on-line 5 Day weather forecast and the Metcheck forecast. Both are very favourable as regards rocket flying at the Fairlie Moor Site on the Saturday afteroon coming.

Average temepertature will be 12 deg. C, wind will be less than 10mph (possibly as low as 3mph) blowing to the the WWN to W. At Noon there is forecast broken cloud and sunshine; from 3pm clear sky. Rain is forecast as nil for the afternoon. I would say that these are eminently flyable conditions.

Therefore we are go for launches on Saturday. Hope to see you then if you can come along.

If anyone is planning to launch any rockets to above 2,000 feet Above Ground Level this Saturday could you please let me know in advance by e-mail or phone, thanks.

As this meeting is the one rescheduled from last Saturday because of the unfavourable weather forecast for that day (and boy was it a doozy foul weatherwise here last weekend), we still hope to hold a Launch Meeting on Saturday 31st March as well, before we have to leave off for April and until mid-May for the lambing season at Knockendon Farm.

Yours ever,

John B.

As some of you will know, after the low cloud really cleared properly away over the Fairlie Moor Site at last Saturday's Launch Meeting, Jonathan and Colin were both successful in getting their respective rockets - "Eclipse" [or perhaps now "Pheonix Eclipse" ( I hope that I have spelled the name of the fabulous bird correctly!), in recognition of its rebuild by Jonanthan and spectacular rise after the in-flight catastrophe that it suffered at last year's IRW, and Colin's A4/V2 in its White Sands livery] away aloft on beautiful and entirely successful flights.