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Where can I launch in New Jersey?

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Anthony Savoca

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Jan 14, 2002, 1:35:40 PM1/14/02
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I recently bought an Estes kit for my son. He put the rocket together
and now he is looking to launch it. My question is where in NJ is it
legal to launch a rocket from? It's a small rocket (less than one
pound) and I have B type engines for it. My yard is too small, but
there are a number of parks and schoolyards around that look like
they'd be big and open enough to launch in. If anyone could offer any
advice, I would really appreciate. Thanks!

Chris Taylor Jr

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Jan 14, 2002, 1:55:26 PM1/14/02
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School yards can be an option if you get permission

unless local laws fotbid or you cause trouble for others parks are fair game
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as for clubs you got sojars and gsss (south and north jersey)

i als believe there is one near atlantic city as well ??

Chris

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Ken Goddard

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Jan 14, 2002, 2:02:41 PM1/14/02
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Welcome to the sport, Anthony!
The Garden State Spacemodeling Society (GSSS) has monthly launches, and
would love to have you stop by. Check out the web site:
http://www.robnee.com/gsss/
The field GSSS uses is available at other times for your individual
launching pleasure.
Also check out METRA, which runs both high-power and model rocket launches:
http://users.nac.net/jdcluster/Metra.html
You can launch from any large-enough field, if you have the owners
permission and follow the NAR safety code:
http://www.nar.org/NARmrsc.html
Have fun!
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Stefan E. Jones

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Jan 14, 2002, 2:02:41 PM1/14/02
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I don't think Jersey is particularly restrictive when it comes to
flying.

Officially, you'll probably need permission from whoever owns or
controls the field you're launching from, but in general the "it's
easier to get forgiveness than ask permission" principle applies. :-)

A big school playing field on a weekend should be fine. Just don't do it
when there are any games on, or when the maintenance people are mowing.

Anthony

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Jan 14, 2002, 3:26:45 PM1/14/02
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I am a member of METRA, GSSS and SoJARS
Estes go with Sojars, I drive 210 miles one way to fly with them. they are a
great bunch of people
METRA I fly the larger rockets.
GSSS I went once had a better conversation with the trees than the club no
one said hi nothing. go with sojars great club
but when I fly on my own I went to the Bergen county park.
Anthony

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Ken Goddard

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Jan 14, 2002, 4:24:12 PM1/14/02
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Anthony-
I'm sorry to hear you had a poor experience with GSSS. Please give them
another chance.
I tend to be kind of quiet myself, so I understand your feelings.
I've learned you should always make an effort to say "hi" yourself, it works
both ways!

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Anthony

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Jan 14, 2002, 6:49:11 PM1/14/02
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I was talking to a few people. I learned there names by reading the flight
sheet.
and you are right I should get my but back there its always fun to fly,
that's the whole purpose to have fun.
Anthony
P.S. medical reasons prevent me from speaking clearly.
but I try.
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William Wehner

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Jan 14, 2002, 9:12:20 PM1/14/02
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What part of Jersey are you in?


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Josh Cowger

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Jan 14, 2002, 9:49:19 PM1/14/02
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You mean "What exit"

Josh

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NeoF14

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Jan 15, 2002, 7:15:30 PM1/15/02
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Lay off the Jersey jokes!

Christopher Deem

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Jan 15, 2002, 9:54:04 PM1/15/02
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No problem, there is absolutely nothing funny about Jersey ;)

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churcht

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Jan 16, 2002, 6:15:27 AM1/16/02
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NeoF14 wrote:
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> Lay off the Jersey jokes!

Or at least come up with something more original than that hoary old
"what exit?" chestnut...

My personal favorite:

Q: Why does California have the most lawyers per capita of all the
US states, and New Jersey have the most toxic waste sites?

A: New Jersey had first choice.

Fred Shecter

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Jan 16, 2002, 12:10:22 PM1/16/02
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I missed the "what exit" opportunity this time, but in 1981 I caused a
comedian at the Comedy Store to go into convulsions for several minutes. It
was early and it was not crowded. He did the usual "where you from?" thing
with the small audience. Then he said that he was from New Jersey and was
about to keep talking when I instantly blurted out (loudly) "WHAT EXIT?". He
fell on the stage clutching his stomach laughing.

And now for some real news: California will number their exits in the
future. So *we'll* be able to say that out here someday....

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000004088jan16.story

-Fred "grew up just south of exit W3 on the Wantagh State Parkway" Shecter
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Mark Simpson

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Jan 16, 2002, 12:48:31 PM1/16/02
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No, no, no. It's "You from Joizey? What exit?" ;-) Unless you are
either old enough to remember when Joe Piscopoe was on SNL or watch
the reruns on Comedy Central, the joke's lost on most people not from
the East Coast.

Mark Simpson
NAR 71503 Level II


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Stefan E. Jones

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Jan 16, 2002, 1:11:22 PM1/16/02
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Great. I leave the state and they start with the exit numbers.

Fred Shecter wrote:
SNIPPA SNIPPA

NeoF14

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Jan 16, 2002, 3:41:38 PM1/16/02
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I'm from southern New Jersey and to me most of the Jersey jokes really dont
make any sense. Especially the ones about the toxic waste and trash because
down here its all farms and relatively small towns. It seems to me that
everyone just thinks of people from New Jersey as being like those who live
just outside of NY and up in the more northern part of the state. But thats
just me.

Randy D.

Stefan E. Jones

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Jan 16, 2002, 4:01:39 PM1/16/02
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If you only know Jersey from what you can see from the Turnpike, you'll
probably assume that the whole place resembles Mordor.

If you go a half hour NW of, say, Hackensack, you'll be in the gorgeous
hilly areas.

I once had to drive to some towns in southern NJ. I was astonished at
the sheer emptiness of it, and the extent of the Pine Barrens.

Hilty Information Systems

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Jan 16, 2002, 4:02:12 PM1/16/02
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Well, there's always Cleveland...

Hey... wait a minute...

<vbg>

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Art T

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Jan 16, 2002, 9:33:11 PM1/16/02
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Yeah...I just wish I knew some of the farmers in that "emptiness"...finding
flying fields here in Joysy is next to impossible.
Art T

Bob Kaplow

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Jan 16, 2002, 9:57:48 PM1/16/02
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In article <3c45ea35...@news1.news.adelphia.net>, hil...@ihrUnterhose.net (Hilty Information Systems) writes:
> Well, there's always Cleveland...

I think I know that joke too:

Ohio is an Indian word that means "beautiful".

Cleveland is an Indian word that means "not".

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Hilty Information Systems

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Jan 16, 2002, 10:46:18 PM1/16/02
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On 16 Jan 2002 20:57:48 -0600, kapl...@eisner.encompasserve.org.mars
(Bob Kaplow) wrote:

>In article <3c45ea35...@news1.news.adelphia.net>, hil...@ihrUnterhose.net (Hilty Information Systems) writes:
>> Well, there's always Cleveland...
>
>I think I know that joke too:
>
>Ohio is an Indian word that means "beautiful".
>
>Cleveland is an Indian word that means "not".
>
> Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Ctrl-Alt-Del"

hehe... Just like clockwork...

<vbg>

tah

Mark Simpson

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Jan 16, 2002, 11:03:35 PM1/16/02
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Randy,
I was raised in a little town called Gibbstown, NJ. We were so small
that I went to high school in the next town. Within easy bicycling
distance west, I was in the second largest peach producing area in the
country, miles of corn and tomato fields and virtually no industry.
Along the Delaware to the east there were lots of refineries within a
few miles in the opposite direction.

Mark Simpson
NAR 71503 Level II

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