The Links Page
- Featured Links
- Apogee Components
- An educational site that also sells kits and supplies.
- History of the Battle Park
- National Park Service
- This site includes the park service map and tour guide of the battlefield.
- Blue and Grey Trail
- Another excellent site about the Battle of Cedar Mountain
- Visit Culpeper VA
- Local site with battle info and lots of information about the surrounding area.
- On-site Vendors at Battle Park
We recommend that you contact these vendors prior to a launch to ensure they will be attending that launch and that they will have the motors and accessories that you want.
- The Dragon's Hoard
- Harry drives down from Staunton VA to attend most of our launches.
- Performance Hobbies
- Ken Allen comes up from NC for the spring and fall launches.
- Wildman Virginia
- Kevin Dunn from HOVAR has become the Virginia Wildman vendor. Pre-order for discounts or give him a call to order anything from the Wildman catalog.
- National Orginizations
- Tripoli Rocketry Association TRA
- This is a national certifying orginization. Their concentration is on high powered rocketry.
- National Association of Rocketry NAR
- This is the other national certifying orginization. Their concentration is on low powered rocketry and contest flying.
- Canadian Association of Rocketry CAR
- This is a Canada's equivelant to TRA and NAR.
- Federation of Galaxy Explorers
- A youth science education orginization.
- Battle of the Rockets
- A national contest promoting high school and college science education.
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- A professional Aeronautics organization.
- Team America Rocketry Challenge
- A national contest promoting youth science education.
- Local Rocketry Clubs
- Colonial Virginia High Power Rocketry
- Information on VA, NC, SC, and MD clubs and launches
- Valley AeroSpace Team VAST
- Tripoli Central Virginia #36 and NAR Section #687 based in the central Shenandoah Valley near Swoope VA.
- Heart of Virginia Association of Rocketry HOVAR
- HOVAR is a NAR club located near Farmville VA.
- Viking Rocketry Society
- A NAR Section from Richmond VA. Unfortunately they do NOT have a flying field at this time.
- Northern Virginia Association of Rocketry NOVAAR
- NAR Section #205, launches from Great Meadows in The Plains VA
- Maryland Delaware Rocketry Association MDRA
- The host of Red Glare and other large launch events on Marylands eastern shore.
- National Association of Rocketry Headquarters Astro-Modeling Section NARHAMS
- NAR Section #139 Serving Maryland and the Washington Metropolitan Area
- Southeast Virginia Rocketry Association SEVRA
- NAR Section #621 they use the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field in Chesapeake VA as their primary field
- Events
- LDRS 31
- The 31th Tripoli national launch held from July 12-16, 2012, in Potter NY. Upstate Rocketry Research Group URRG is the host club.
- NARCON 2012
- The NAR national convention April 13, 14, 15 in Hutchinson Kansas
- National Association of Rocketry Annual Meet NARAM-54
- Hosted by Southwest Michigan Association of Spacemodeling Hobbyists (SMASH, Section 500), July 28 - August 3 in Muskegon, MI
- National Sport Launch 2012
- May 26-28, 2012, in Geneseo, NY, Hosted by Monroe Astronautical Society (MARS, Section 136)
- Southern Thunder 2012
- Hosted by the Music City Missle Club near Manchester TN.
- Online Forums
- The Rocketry Forum
- This is a highly moderated, family friendly forum that is very active.
- Rocketry Planet Forums
- A high traffic forum that is attached to a very informative site.
- Rocketry Online Forums
- Another informative and helpful forum that is attached to a very informative site.
- Newtons 3rd Rocketry Forums
- This is a non-moderated forum and as such, has more "adult" conversations.
- Ye Old Rocket Forum
- If you need information or instructions for old kits, this is the place.
- Informational Sites
- NASA's Beginners's Guide to Rockets
- This site will help you learn the basic math and physics that govern the design and flight of rockets.
- Online Schools Library: Science - A Guide to Amateur Rocketry
- This site has a lot of basic and advanced information for the beginning rocketeer.
- EMRR Rocketreviews
- This site has reviews of everything rocketry along with a wealth of rocketry information.
- Rocketry Online
- This site holds a lot of rocketry information, tools, and news.
- Thrustcurve.org
- Here you will find manufacturer specs, certified performance data and other info on commercial model rocket motors and high-power rocket motors.
- RocketMaterials.org
- In God we trust, all others bring data.
- Rocketry Today
- This site has reviews of flying model rockets, free rocketry plans & projects, and hobby resources.
- Publications
- Rockets Magazine
- The Official Magazine of Tripoli Rocketry Association.
- Personnal Sites
- Ed Rowe's Colonial Virginia High Power Rocketry site.
- Check out the N and P projects Ed has built along with lots of links.
- Richard Nakka's Experimental Rocketry
- This site holds a ton of great rocketry information.
- Handeman Rocketry
- This site is the webmaster personal site. I don't update it as much as I would like, but everyone is welcome.