Black Knights News
19/04/08 - Site Search Update
After a couple of dead-ends, I have had some better news this morning. Following on from a chance visit to a local farm I have got an invite to go back for a return visit to look over the area with the owner. It's a largely arable farm site, close to my school, but easily accessible from the motorway, for those in the North. It looks to be a K class site and Chris puts the altitude limits at around 6500. I am going to check on that soonest. More to come on that later.
Set-up for tomorrow will be at 10.30. I would appreciate confirmation of attendance or otherwise.
10/04/08 - Website Updates and Latest News
After a bit of a battle with some new software I have managed to sort out the Launch Dates and now the News pages on the site! Hopefully that will result in me being able to keep up to date with all the news. I am going to remove some of the older launch reports from the site, if any one wants copies, I will put them on a CD and I can email them out to members.
Next Flying Day
The next flying day is on, weather permitting. I will place any updates on this page.
New Site
I was hoping to have some good news about the search for a new site but to no avail. I was hoping to be able to gain access to a local airfield but the current users do not want to play ball with us! The search goes on!
UKAYRoC 2008
I'm pleased to say that the lads in the "Junior" section of BK, ie the members of my school rocket club, managed to qualify for the Final. Unfortunately they were unable to improve their flying performance on the day, due to the weather conditions, having to put on a presentation as part of the "wet-weather" routine. They are already talking about next year - what ever the competition, so it hasn't dampened their enthusiasm. Great try, Lads. We are proud of you!
Email Mailing List Update
I need to update the email mailing lists so can you contact me via the links on the contact page, with your latest email addresses? The list that I have is definintely not totally correct and I keep getting bounced mails and non-delivery warnings.
16/10/07 - "Flying Tonite"
Apologies for the pun, but after consultation with the landowner, the October flying session is ON!
As previously announced, the site remains restricted with a 1,500ft limit and a "H" maximum for motors, We are seeking alternative sites and trying to get the current restrictions on recovery lifted.
12/09/07 - Change to Milson Site Flying Limits
Due to a reduction in our recovery area, we must reduce the class of the site to "H" with an altitude limit of 1,500ft. We hope that this is a only a temporary restriction, but unless circumstances change, this may be permanent.
25/4/07 - BK welcomes UKRA07
This year we will be holding a joint launch with UKRA at our Milson site. Setting up on Friday 13th July and flying on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th July.
18/1/07 - January Flying Session Canceled
We regret to announce that, due to a combination of illness (availability of club RSOs), weather concerns and problems with insurance renewals, it has been decided to cancel the Blackknights flying day on Sunday 21st January. The next session will be on 18/2/07 at Milson.
25/10/06 - UKAYROC Launched
An exciting new rocketry event for young people - Win a trip to the USA!
Check out the web site!
Competition Web Site
10/10/06 - Change of Flying Site
Hi Folks
The club will be flying from its Milson launch site for the rest of
this year. All dates as advertised, just a venue change for the Oct and
Dec launches.
Sorry about the short notice for Oct!
regards
Mark Perman
09/10/06 - Apollo 11 Model Rocketry
You may or may not have heard that Alan Meredith, proprietor of Apollo 11 has been rushed to hospital. Blackknights would like to pass on our wishes for a full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with you and your family, Alan.
10/08/06 - Website problems
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to switch our web hosting back to our original provider. We are working to restore the updated web site, but until then, this previous version has been restored to keep our information available on the world wide web.
04/04/05 - Black Knights Flamer 2005
Following on from the great success of the Black Knights Flamer 2004, we are pleased to announce that the next Black Knights Flamer event is over the weekend of 16th-17th July 2005 at our Milson flying site. Details can be found here.
03/04/05 - Black Knights and Tripoli English Midlands
This question has been asked in the past or people have taken the assumption that the use of the word Midlands in Tripoli English Midlands means that The Black Knights (the rocketry club based in the Midlands) are involved with Tripoli English Midlands. We would like to point out that we are not involved with Tripoli English Midlands or Tripoli Rocketry UK Ltd. Hope that sorts the confusion out.
17/03/05 - March Flying Session
The next flying session is from our Milson site on Sunday (20th March). We will have Johnathan Lee (Current D Class record holder) attempt to break his current record. Also we will have Paul Carter doing his Level 2 attempt after passing the Level 2 exam this week.
01/03/05 - UK Spaceplanes Symposium
On the 17-18 September 2005 the British Interplanetary Society is holding a 2 day symposium at RAF Cosford.
Details are here.
28/02/05 - The Space Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Events
The Space Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) have released some events.
Details are here.
20/01/05 - UK Model Shops
The Black Knights are listing UK model shops in the Midlands that stock rocketry items, you can get a list here.
17/01/05 - First flying session of 2005
The Black Knights first flying session of 2005 was a sucessful day, but we were missing one Person Ray who is in hospital, so we wish Ray a speedy recovery.
29/12/04 - Buster!
Buster Perman - Sometime contributor to the Black Knights website and attendee at many rocket flying events since the inception of organised High Power rocketry in the UK, after being diagnosed as having terminal cancer on Christmas Day, was put to sleep on the 27th Dec 04.
He will be sorely missed by Liz and Mark, Black Knights club members and by all his friends in the UK hobby rocketry community.
07/12/04 - Winter is coming!
Well everyone, the final flying session is over and we now enter the winter period, otherwise known as the building period. So when the snow starts to fall, get into build mode ready for next year.
The Black Knights committee wishes all the landowners (where would we fly without them), sponsors (what would we build without our sponsors) , members (the club would not be here without the members), committee members (no events with the committee) and all the people who have come along and watch our flying session and all the visitors to the web site a Happy Christmas and a Flying New Year.
Remember the AGM is on January 8th 2005 at Dave's School.
03/12/04 - Photo Gallery Update
I have added a few new features to the PHP code that runs the Photo Gallery, hopefully producing a better view of our photo's and video's.
22/11/04 - Congratulations to Pete Lander
The Black Knights would like to congratulate Pete Lander on wining the Monocopter competition held at Milson on Sunday 21/10/2004. His flight was considered to be the bestl by myself (The Judge). Pete powered the monocopter to a great height and it was balanced so great that it floated on the air during it's decent.
18/11/04 - November Flying Session
The next flying session is from our Milson site on Sunday (21st November). Please remember that November is "Monocopter Day", so all of you who took up the challenge, come prepared for combat!
Also the new dates for next year have been published. See the calendar.
10/11/04 - Congratulations to Alan Meredith on the 1st Anniversary of buying Apo11o
The Black Knights would like to congratulate Alan Meredith on the 1st anniversary of running the Model Rocketry Components business called Apo11o.
The Apo11o web site can be found at www.apo11o.co.uk.
09/11/04 - Change of dates for December Flying Session
The Black Knights would like announce a date change to thier December flying session. It has been moved to December 5th and will be at our Brook Farm Site.
09/11/04 - November Flying Session
The next flying session is from our Milson site on Sunday (21st November).
As for vendors, I have got confirmation that Apo11o and Congreve Rockets will be coming, but due to a technical problem Congreve motors will not be for sale on the day :-(
01/11/04 - Rocketry Workshops
A good friend of the club "Ian Johnson" is a professional presenter who does great rockerty workshops. Ideal for schools as part of their KeyStage work. You can contact Ian using the details on the Science Live "The Science Presenter's On-line guide and Outreach Shows" website. We have had Ian attend our AGM's and give a very intresting talk on propulsion systems. He know's his stuff!
21/09/04 - New Article by Pete Lander
Pete has written a new article about his monocopter and as a challange to all club members we have decided to open up a monocopter session on the next BLack Knights session at Brook Farm in October, so get building and see who and the the best flight. View it from our Articles page.
03/07/04 - Photo Gallery Update
I have re-written the PHP code that runs the Photo Gallery, hopefully producing a better view of our photo's and video's.
13/06/04 - RAF Cosford Show
The Black Knights rocket club would like to thank RAF Cosford and the organisers for allowing us to promote hobby rocketry at the RAF Cosford Air Show 2004. A report can be found here.
Don't forget that the Aerospace Museum at Cosford probably has the best collection of rocket and missile hardware on display in the UK. If you have time to visit, then it's worthwhile.
16/05/04 - L2 attempt - Passed
Congrats to Mark on passing his L2 attempt at Milson
10/11/03 - Congratulations to Alan Meredith on the purchase of Apo11o
The Black Knights would like to congratulate Alan Meredith on his successful
purchase of the Model Rocketry Components business from Tony Williams.
We wish him well in his new adventure.
The Apo11o web site can be found at www.apo11o.co.uk.
10/10/03 - New ways to communicate - The Black Knights Mailing List
After several requests from club members and other interested parties, we have now created a Newsletter mailing List. To subscribe to the list, visit our Mailing Lists page.
18/08/03 - Static Display At RAF Cosford
The next Black Knights event is a static display at the Aerospace Museum at RAF Cosford on Sunday 31st August. If you want to talk Rockets/meet some of the club members come along and have a look/say hello on the day.
01/07/03 - Milson Launch Site Announcement
Good News to all flyers.
UKRA S&T have just confirmed to us that our Milson Launch site is now classed as a "K Class" flying site. Also, our next flying date is this Sunday (6th July 2003) at Milson, and we will have a Level 2 RSO available for those J-K flights. Remember there is ceiling heights of...
6,000ft ceiling for single recovery
12,000ft ceiling for dual recovery
See you there.
29/06/03 - New ways to communicate - The Black Knights Forums
With the ever changing world of club members changing their email address, we have found it hard keeping up-to date with letting club members know what is going on, so a result of a item from yesterday's Black Knights Committee meeting, we have implemented a web based forum to allow better Club/Community discussions.
The Forum will allow club and other rocketry community members access to better club related information, discussion topics and friendly banter etc.
To post messages you must register an account.
The Black Knights committee require all users to register under their
proper full name and not under a pseudonym.
Users who do register using a pseudonym will have their account disabled.
This is so we can protect the forum members from any possible anonymous
abuse etc.
For more info see the Black Knights Forum.
