The following was posted on rocketry planet today and on a few lists:

cc Tripoli mailing list, CAR-ACF Board, MAAC, NAR, canadianrocketry mailing lists

There have been references to our association and sparky motors for the last few days.

Canadian Association of Rocketry - L'Association Canadienne De Fuséologie is a Canadian federally not for profit association representing amateur/model rocketeers across Canada. The history of amateur/model rocketry in Canada goes back to 1965 with it's approval by the Canadian Federal government with the assistance of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI), the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs (RCFCA), the new Canadian Association of Rocketry(CAR), and then with the help of the Youth Aeronautic and Aerospace of Canada (YAAC).

Today CAR-ACF is the only nationally recognized amateur/model rocketry association in Canada and its standards and guidelines are recognized as safe and consistent. These standards and guidelines, available at no charge, have given the association an outstanding safety record.

During the summer of 2008, a motor was certified by (at that time) the CAR Motor Certification Committee (MC2) . An error was made as the motor didn't meet the standards set by NFPA in relation to sparkies and was not cross certified by NAR or Tripoli.

It should be noted that although MC2 uses NFPA as the standard for testing, CAR-ACF is not under jurisdiction of any NFPA rules but under the juridiction of Transport Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRC) - Explosives Regulatory Division, and the model and high power safety codes of our association. CAR-ACF, as per rules, uses total impulse to differentiate between model rocket motor and high power motor. For motors under 160 N-sec that meet the definition of high power under NFPA 1125, you will see a note on CAR-ACF motor certification letter indicating that it is considered NFPA high power, and the reason why.

CAR-ACF does not have a representative on NFPA.

No reports of fires resulting from model impulse sparky motors have been submitted to the CAR executive or reported through our RSO committee. The final decision to allow any flight still will rest with the RSO at the time of launch - a process that appears to be working well.

As there have been questions asked and issues raised, the issue of sparky motors is now with the CAR-ACF RSO committee. Once a recommendation is reached, it will be put to the Board of Directors. There is no time frame for the decision at this point.

Angelo Castellano
President

Good Afternoon All,

I am pleased to report the certification of five (5) new motors from Cesaroni Technology Inc. The testing session was held on January 7th, 2010. It would appear that Dr. Louwers and associates have found a great way to stave off the Canadian winter chill! Special thanks to Angelo Castellano for attending the (outdoor) session.

A total of fourteen (14) motors were fired, adding new hardware (Pro29-spacer, Pro75-0.7G spacer, Pro75-5.3G case) and a new propellant (Green3). I will leave it to Dr. Louwers to further describe the new propellant.

Certified were the following motors:
• CTI 159-G54-RL-12A (CTI Pro29-3G)
• CTI 298-H159-GR-15A (CTI Pro29-6G)
• CTI 1990-K490-GR-16A (CTI Pro54-5G)
• CTI 6800-M3700-WT-P (CTI Pro75-6G)
• CTI 6287-M2075-SS-P (CTI Pro75-6G)

Congratulations to Cesaroni Technology and Dr. Louwers on these new certifications.

The letters of certification and typical thrust curves will be available shortly on the CanadianRocketry website. Simulation files will be posted as time permits.

Regards,

Tom

Thomas Raithby
Chairman, CAR Motor Certification

The Board of the Canadian Association of Rocketry - L'Association Canadienne De Fuséologie is pleased to make the following announcements:

1. Pierre Larendeau has been appointed Government Liaison for Transport Canada. He will also continue as CRSO.
   
2. Angelo Castellano has been appointed Government Liaison for Explosives Branch. This will be in addition to his presidential duties.
   
3. Greg Mills has been appointed as Chair of the L4CC.
   
4. Greg Parent has been appointed as Ontario Representative.

Hello all,

I sent out the latest copy of Sport Rocketry last week so all who subscribe should have their copy or should very soon. I had one returned to me today due to the fact that I must have either missed putting on one address label or it somehow fell off, or I packed one too many envelopes. So, if you are a subscriber and you don’t get your copy in the next while, let me know.

Thanks!!

Tim Rempel
Secretary/Treasurer
Canadian Association of Rocketry
CAR# S444 Level 4
TRA# 09890 Level 3

cc. CARWeb General Forum
cc. Board of Directors
cc. RSO/L4CC yahoo groups and forums

Hello, all.

Sorry if you received this more than once.

For discussions to this post, please use the forums. The general yahoo group is a public group open to everyone. It is posted here as a courtesy.

More thanks to Shane Weatherill. There is nothing like IT support that actually gets thing done fast.

This is probably the last major update for the year with the holidays coming up.

Canadian Association of Rocketry - L'Association Canadienne De Fuséologie
This is our new name. We are now a federally incorporated not for profit organization with by-laws and a proper structure. The bylaws are now posted CARWeb at http://www.canadianrocketry.org/bylaws.php. There is no Chairman but now a President and Vice-President. We also have more responsibilities. We need to provide annual financial reports to the government agency. These reports will also be available to the public. But it is done.

Motor Certification
Tom Raithby, who also our Vice President, has done a great job doing motor testing this year. He has quickly done all reports and issued them to rocketeers world wide. Well done.

Tom has also indicated a need for others to fill in with motor testing. Currently it is being done by Tom and myself. A couple of CAR members living in the Toronto area are welcome to become part of the testing committee. You would be trained by Tom or myself and do the testing when neither of us are available. If you are interested, please contact Tom or myself.

CARWeb Forums
Shane has set up forums on the CARWeb. This has many functions. First it provides a place that it ad free. Second, it is a private forum - you need to be a CAR-ACF member. And third, it provides a means to pass information on to the next executive. One problem in the past has always been finding out what happened before and why decisions were made.

Ontario Regional Director
Ontario still need a regional director. Volunteers? Please. I would like to remove the line form my sig and give Ontario a vote on
the board.

RSO L4CC Review
The review is slowly starting up.

Summary
A review of past concerns:
2009-1 New election. Except for the Ontario rep, done
2009-2 Not for profit - done
2009-3 safety rule of 9km for model rockets. Repealed. Done
2009-4 Review committees - on going
2009-5 future growth of CAR-ACF. Currently trying to set up a membership/ corporate donation committee. If you are interested,
please step forward.
2009-6 Update the Natural Resources booklet. To be done when a government liaison is appointed.
2009-7 Government Liaison - now being discussed
2009-8 Insurance. Now that we are set up, Tim Rempel is now starting to make contacts for both Director's insurance and general insurance. Should you have any contacts in the insurance industry, please pass the information on to Tim.
2009-9 Hybrid launch distance - done.
2009-10 Financial Statements - issued. To be issued again when needed or if there are major changes.
2009-11 Regular Contact by me and the Executive- Trying
2009-12 FAI Competition - Still to be looked at
2009-13 Draft a expulsion and discipline policy. The expulsion is now taken care of in the new bylaws - quoting: "Any member may have their membership revoked by the Board of Directors where that member has been found to act in a manner prejudicial to the Corporation in the opinion of the majority of the Board of Directors." Discipline is to be looked at.
2009-14 A discussion about the "black powder issue" and its effect on CAR-ACF. Part of the committee review.

New items currently before the board:
2009-15 List/Forum policy. A discussion of who gets access to the list/forum for the board of directors. If someone asks, put
before the board for discussion. Unless someone is a Director or an Executive, they are welcome as long as they contribute.
2009-16 A discussion a the 4 levels of CAR-ACF High Power. In discussion.
2009-17 CARWeb changes. On going. We have started to load documents for future reference and started the forums.

Angelo Castellano
President
Canadian Association of Rocketry - L'Association Canadienne De Fuséologie
acting Ontario Region Representative
S573 L1 NAR87131 TRA11312 L1
www.canadianrocketry.org
exec email: history@canaroc.com