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William Orvis

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Jan 7, 2025, 9:51:35 PMJan 7
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Hi Aarav,

Sorry I have not answered but I have been out of town for several weeks.

I can probably help but lets see if we can find someone closer.

Hopefully, you have already registered as registration has closed for this year. If not, you can still practice designing, building and flying rockets in preparation for next year's contest.

There are two mailing lists you should get on.

Lunar General and lunar ARC. Information is here. http://www.lunar.org/docs/lists/lists.shtml

On both lists you can ask questions.

You need to be designing and building your rocket now. You will run out of time for testing.

Apogee Rockets has an ARC parts kit that has just about all the parts you might need to build an ARC rocket this year.

Get your altimeter. Make sure it is one of the approved ones.

Get started with the design software. You will need it to zero in on the weight and parachute design to compete.

Open Rocket is available for free https://openrocket.info/

RocSym is available from Apogee. https://www.apogeerockets.com/Rocket_Software
Apogee has a special deal for ARC teams.

I think there are some others out there but I have not used them.

Plan to fly something at the LUNAR launches this winter. The next one is Feb. 1. Go to http://www.lunar.org for information on the launches and maps. We will be holding additional ARC only launches in march if needed. If you don't have your ARC design ready for the Feb. launch, Buy one of the more complex kits like a Big Bertha to learn how to build and fly a rocket. That kit is an easy build and you should be able to complete it for the Feb. launch.

You can get engines locally from Fred Radford Fr...@rocket.supplies. Fred will usually be at the LUNAR launches.

Contact me if you have questions or use the lunar-general mailing list.

Again, you really need to get moving as you will run out of time.

Bill

On 1/6/25 10:19 PM, Aarav Dixit wrote:
Hello Mr. Orvis,

Just following up on the below.

On Dec 25, 2024, at 6:45 PM, Aarav Dixit <aard...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Mr Orvis,

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! This email is regarding The American Rocketry Challenge. My team and I are from Washington High School, a high school located in Fremont, California. I was looking through the list of rocketry mentors and found that you’re located in Livermore, and thus I wanted to reach out to you since we do not have a mentor. We’ve already reached out to 3 and all have said they are too busy, so we’d really appreciate it if you would be available to mentor us, and if so, please let me know what next steps I should take/information I should give you.

Thanks,
Aarav Dixit

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Paul Pittenger

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Jan 8, 2025, 8:26:09 PMJan 8
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I still have a bunch of ARC rocket parts that were donated.  Fin sets, centering rings, motor mounts, motor retainers, various tubes adapters and noses - just need to come lay them out and make a set of parts or know what you might still need to buy.

Should be in my garage / rocket workshop this weekend.  San Mateo near 92 & 280.  Send me message off list to set timing and talk about what you need.

Paul Pittenger


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Jan 9, 2025, 2:29:36 PMJan 9
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