The most popular flights of the day belong to Shane's 7 foot long inflatable rocket called The Dude.

When people weren't watching rockets or talking about rockets they were taking advantage of the on-site catering. The sausage sizzle was sold-out around 10:00am and the hot beverages supplied by Coffee Angels were a hit too.

We had another fantastic crowd of more than 350 spectators. This was largely due to the fabulous publicity generated by a number of local newspapers (i.e. Courier Mail, Brisbane Times and Jimboomba Times). The QRS would like to thanks them for their generous support.

The QRS had one new member sign-up on the day. A couple of other people expressed interest in joining too. Hobby One, at Mount Gravatt, reported a dramatic increase in rocketry sales around the time of the launch. So we are very likely to see a few new people at launch days in 2009.

The QRS committee would like to thank the many, many members and their family and friends, who volunteers and made the day such a success. This included setting up the range on Saturday, handing-out flyers, selling raffle tickets, cooking up a storm on the BBQ, range safety duties, talking to public or even just launching rockets.

The next big public launch day is scheduled for Sunday 8^th March 2009.  We hope to see you then!

A great launch yet again. We had a wide variety of rockets and motors being flown. More and more people are moving up to bigger and bigger things. Forum thread and pictures can be found here, and gallery with a selection of pictures can be found here.

Todays launch went off with very little dramas. We had another good crowd of spectators who came along to check out our obsession, some of which may have contracted our illness and will be back for more. We had approximately 100 to 150 people all up.

Although we only had eight members launching, we managed to get around thirty rockets in the air. Most of these were low powered flights, as the usual composite fliers were absent from this launch. Still, there were plenty of flights to make up for this.

Special thanks go to : Brendan for doing the grass again and not to mention photos. Petar and Len sharing RSO and LCO duties not to mention great commentary on the PA. It is so good to see our latest "recruits" like Jonathan, George with Taylor, Robin and Trevor doing most of the launches. Jonathan had an array of new rockets going up. Can't forget Asher as his rockets flew really well and this young man has come a long way in a short time, good on you mate.

All and all, another great day of rocketry for sure.

Thanks also go to Robin, George's "crew" and Jonathan for helping with the set up and dismanteling of the various pieces of launch gear.

Thanks to all who participated and we can look forward to the next one.

Forum thread (starting at posts made after the launch) and photos can be found here (new window).

This launch went off without a hitch thanks to the usual dedicated efforts of the QRS guys and girls. A great mix of low and mid power rockets were flown. We had a total of 43 flights, of which 27 were low power and 16 were mid power.

We would like to thank everyone for coming along and showing interest in our hobby, and hope to see you again at our future launches.

The gallery for this launch can be found here (new window), and the forum thread can be found here (new window), starting at posts made after the launch.