New Zealand Rocketry Association

A high-power rocket lifts off at Taupiri

The New Zealand Rocketry Association is a model rocketry organisation based in Auckland, New Zealand. The NZRA holds launches and meetings bi-monthly at its Taupiri launch site,[1] an hour south of Auckland, and has an annual launch day.[2] Launch clearance from the Civil Aviation Authority is required for all launches, to ensure there are no aircraft flying through the area.[1]

New Zealand altitude records for single engine experimental class rockets have been set at the launch site by Martin van Tiel at 4,169.2 m (13,678 ft) on 2 February 2003[3] and by Phil Vukovich at 8,378 metres (27,487 ft) on 6 September 2008.[4][5]

Martin Aspell and Joel Schiff hold the current NZ altitude record of 10,275 metres (33,711 ft) [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Taupiri to Nasa: We have liftoff". The New Zealand Herald. 4 February 2002. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  2. ↑ "Getting the blast-off perfect it is rocket science". Waikato Times. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  3. ↑ Thompson, Wayne (26 January 2008). "Home project definitely rocket science". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  4. ↑ Hudson, Alice (28 September 2008). "Rocket man soars". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  5. ↑ "Altitude Records". New Zealand Rocketry Association. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  6. ↑ "30K Club". New Zealand Rocketry. Retrieved 2012-12-12.

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