Desert Heat 2011 Wrap-Up

 

Thanks go out to all those who participated in Desert Heat 2011.

We had a record-breaking event with about 1,000 attendees on Saturday, and 136 flyers making 716 launches over the two days, with 78 of them in the H – N impulse range.

The Arizona Rocketry Team highlighted the event with their five-motor 20 foot tall ½-scale SCUD missile!

Please support our generous sponsors, who donated over 90 raffle prizes or cash grants supporting the mass-launches for the kids!

Local station KOLD News 13 covered the event with two on-air stories at 5:30 and 10:00 on Sunday.

We have some of the best weather and wide-open space available and are putting Tucson on the map when it comes to rocketry!

 

Photos, Videos and Articles:

KOLD News 13:

Hundreds of rockets launched west of Tucson (5:30 newscast)

Festival launches hundreds of rockets (10:00 newscast on YouTube)

Photos:

Southern Arizona Rocketry Association on Facebook

JPChan Photography (formerly known as Nahcpj)

Steve Baker on Flickr

On-board keychain camera videos:

 

CRICKET Video

Black Brant II Video

Articles:

We have lift-off - The Explorer (PDF of article - 315K)

Having A Blast - Marana Weekly News (PDF of article - 650K)