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

Chris, Steve and I stopped by Electro-Tech Machining (ETM) in Long Beach on Monday, March 21st.

For anyone interested in ETM’s graphite and graphite machining services, a weblink to their site and their contact information is listed below.   Our sincere thanks to Cathy Braunsdorf and Kevin Anderson at ETM!

Electro-Tech Machining

2000 W. Gaylord Street, Long Beach, CA, 90813

(562) 491-3023, customer service office

(562) 437-5421, FAX

April Meeting location change

Hello Members and fellow Amateur Rocketeers,

We will be working with USCRPL to have a meeting on the USC campus at their lab. The actual location to have the meeting at will be Rapp Engineering Building (RRB) which is near the center of campus @USC.

I am working on getting us some assigned spaces, but at most there will be a small fee to park at the meters or in the structure on campus.

Address for meeting location; https://goo.gl/maps/3HWio (go here for a google map of the location)

USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
854B Downey Way, RRB107
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1192

More info to come shortly.