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Our founder, Jack Hagerty, is featured in Apogee's Peak of Flight Newsletter! You can get the free newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/eyvP-yuC We also have the article on our webstore (free of course!): https://lnkd.in/e4vZTbA2 #Apogee #Newsletter #ModelRocketry #LaunchRods #FeaturedArticle

We have a new freebie available! This is a short educational paper about something that most rocketeers have seen, but not understood what they were looking at. Feel free to use this paper for educational purposes (with attribution, of course). Enjoy! Launch Rod Whip (and what to do about it) by Jack Hagerty "Why did my rocket suddenly turn sideways after leaving the launch rod?  There's no wind or anything to push it!" The answer may be launch rod whip, a little understood phenomenon that affects every model rocket to some extent.  This paper explores the dynamics behind rod whip and gives several methods of minimizing and even completely eliminating it.  And it's free! https://lnkd.in/e4vZTbA2

We have an announcement today from our founder, Jack Hagerty: "Hello all – Not to make too light of a sad situation, but it looks like Snoopy has won. The Red Max has been shot down. As you may know, the book has been an eternity in production for multiple reasons, not the least of which was my starting work at a medical device company just as the pandemic hit. The scheduled 2020 release got pushed back one, then two, and finally three years before I finished that job last September. I jumped right back on the Red Max layout and soon had the next chapter ready for author Jim’s review. While he said it was good, his next communication surprised me. Jim thought that the time for the book had passed. Many of the techniques, he said, were now outdated since there are now commercial products available that do the same things (the manuscript was written 10 years ago, after all). He thought it was best if we just cancelled the project. I told him that I basically agreed but wanted to leave things open to possibly doing eBooks, or other electronic media forms of some of the still relevant parts of the book. While he didn’t say no, we have no firm plans to do so at the moment. I’ve refunded the money to the nice, eternally patient folks who put down pre-orders a year or two ago. There are also some sidebars I wrote as stand-alone expansions of different things that I’ll be posting in the “Freebies” section of the store. Thanks, and merry Christmas, everyone!"

We wish all of our customers a Happy Thanksgiving! We will be closed today, but open regular hours tomorrow!

Company Update: Our founder, Jack Hagerty, has found himself with some more free time and has resumed more projects with ARA Press. While we have nothing specific to announce at this time, we look forward to bringing you new products in the near-future! #CompanyUpdate #NewProducts #TimeManagement #CEOUpdate #PublishingBusiness

Fun post for the day! Halloween is coming up, do you have any rocketry or sci-fi themed decorations? Show off in the comments if so, we'd love to see them! #Halloween #Decorations #Rocketry #ScienceFiction #Holidays

Fun post for the day: As private space companies emerge and start offering services, what are you particularly looking forward to? Let us know in the comments! #PrivateSpaceflight #Spaceflight #PrivateSector #TheFutureIsNow #GoodThingsComing