The Friday, October 14th, RRS meeting will be on the campus of University of Southern California (USC) at 7:30pm.
Allow extra time for travel as there is some walking necessary to get to the meeting site.

We will be meeting at Wallis Annenberg Hall, in Room ANN 106, 3630 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0281.
Please enter the building from the patio as the rest of the building entrances will be closed after 6pm.

Wallis Annenberg Hall location on USC campus

This is a different Annenberg building than the other Annenberg Hall further north on campus.

USC campus can be found off the I-110 freeway.
I have had good luck finding parking at Parking Structure “A” (PSA) near Entrance 6 off of S. Vermont Ave.
Many people approach USC from Exposition Blvd. which also works (Entrance 1).

A tour of the USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (RPL) will take place after our meeting business concludes.
USC RPL location is: 845B DOWNEY WAY, RRB 107, LOS ANGELES, CA, 90089
USC RPL location

Send us a line on the RRS website if there are problems. Hope to see everyone there!

The Col. Vernon P. Saxon Air Museum is located in Boron, CA. They have many aviation and rocketry exhibits including artifacts from the classic space age (Atlas, Saturn) and selected items from the more recent upstart companies such as Air Launch (Garvey), Truax, piece of the Percheron (Galveston) before the Conestoga.

Boron is just straight east from Mojave on the CA-58 highway. The museum is just before Domingo’s Mexican restaurant on the Twenty Mule Team Road located in the heart of much aviation history including Edwards AFB and the NASA Armstrong Flight Center.  Boron is a very, very small town so it should be easy to find.

I didn’t find a museum website, but “Roadside America” posted a review.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/27626

RRS member, Richard Garcia visited the site and took many photos.  I’m hoping he’ll expand a little on this post with some photos and observations he made.  It sounds like a fun place.

A friend of mine, Sean Jones, who is a professional skydiver, gave me this website for showing the upper wind patterns (magnitude, direction) at different elevation intervals.  I’m told this website is popular with hot air balloonists.

www.ryancarlton.com

I think the closest weather station to the MTA is Mojave, California.  It could be a useful tool to predict which way our rockets are landing.

Also, someone mentioned the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (F.A.R.) just to our south at the MTA has a personal weather station.

Cantil, California  35.347 North, 117.808 West

http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station

It should pop up if you enter the weather station ID: KCACANTI2