AARG Meeting

September 30, 2003

Meetings of the NSL Launch Controller Working Group have already occurred. A prototype will be ready for the November 2003 AARG launch. Dan Miner will be spending hundreds of hours designing and building the controller. It is designed to be wireless only.

The next meeting will be near the end of the year. That will be the officer elections meeting. David Urban is stepping down as president and will run for senior officer. Rick Van Voorhis will run for another term as prefect. If anyone wants to be an officer, speak up, and you are likely to win by default.

AARG will host NSL on Memorial Day weekend 2004. It will be at the McGregor field. Setup will be on Friday. Saturday and Sunday will run all day. Monday will run one-half day. James Duffy is the lead person. He must become L2 certified by December 31, 2003. Rick Van Voorhis will be the RSO. Steve Rogers is in charge of information technology. Mark Willett is in charge of equipment. AARG will use DARS' waiver, but it is getting its own city signoff. AARG will try to use its own equipment so that the DARS equipment will be used only if needed. AARG plans to have twenty high power pads and twelve low power pads. There will be a central controller with separate safety checkins for high and low power. The normal McGregor parking configuration will be used. Lee James is going to see if a records trial can be scheduled. This will also be a Jim Turner memorial launch. The parties running NSL guarantee that no manmade events will cause NSL to be canceled. Only bad weather will cause a cancellation.

There has been no movement on the lawsuit or legislation.

Rick Van Voorhis has put a new rule in place for AARG launches. No M flights are allowed unless Rick Van Voorhis, Stu Barrett, or Ed Jacoby approve them. None of them will be in attendance on October 4, 2003, so Jim Parker's and Chuck Cummins' M flights were approved in advance at the meeting. No other M flights will be allowed on October 4, 2003.

LDRS 2004 will be in New York. LDRS 2005 will be in Canada.

Jim Parker
Secretary Pro Tem