Col. Vernon P. Saxon Air Museum (Boron, CA)

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.

 

Winds Aloft Website

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

 

Electro-Tech Machining (Graphite Machining & Fabrication)

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