The October ROCK launch has been scrubbed. I visited the field this afternoon and it had standing water and was muddy in places. That might have been okay, but it was still raining while I was there and has continued to rain. So, the chances are that the field will be much too wet tomorrow for a launch. After I informed Brian, the ROCK president, about the field conditions, he decided to scrub the launch.
We’re currently in the process of updating the JonRocket.com web site. We are updating the product photos and are planning to include photos of the products in their packaging, as you will receive them. We are also adding additional information about each product including links to copies of the instructions, links to external reviews of the products, and links to Rocksim design files for kits.
We’ve also made minor updates to the site’s appearance. One thing that you may notice is that product pages now utilize the full width of your browser window so that the descriptions and attributes don’t look as cluttered.
Updating the site is time-consuming, so we are far from finished. But, we hope you can already see and appreciate some of the improvements.
We’re planning to attend the ROCK launch on Saturday, October 6, in Oviedo, FL. Look for the JonRocket.com Trailer at the launch site!
We recently added a few new products from Estes and Semroc. You can see a list of all the recently added products on our New Products Page.
We were out of town for the ROCK launch at the beginning of the month. Even if we had been in town, the launch was scrubbed because the field was flooded.
Before we went out of town, I hurt my foot when I lost my balance while carrying some stuff downstairs from our office. After we returned from the trip, I visited the doctor. An x-ray showed that I had broken one or both of the bones around the joint in my big toe.
Even though it’s nothing life threatening and is unlikely to affect me once it heals, it really hurt! And, I discovered that riding in a car for any length of time caused it to hurt even worse. So I was forced to also miss the NEFAR and TTRA launches this month. Both launch sites are about 1 and 1/2 hours drive from our home.
I’m looking forward to the local launches in October!
Just a quick note to say that we won’t be at the NEFAR launch on Saturday, July 14. We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
In 2009, Bracha and Roger Smith began running JonRocket.com. To celebrate our third anniversary, we are having a special sale starting on June 30 and ending July 8. Prices on many of our products will be marked down from our regularly discounted prices. Visit JonRocket.com on June 30 to see the specials.
If you are a subscriber to the JonRocket.com newsletter or to the RocketReviews.com eList announcement list, watch for an additional special offer to arrive by email on Thursday.
In the past few days, we’ve added many new products to the JonRocket.com online catalog and we are planning to add more in the days to come.
We’ve added a number of exciting products from Estes including the mid-power Leviathan Pro Series II Model Rocket Kit. Recently added products from Semroc include the Wac Corporal Scale Model Rocket Kit. Rocketarium has supplied us with some new scale model kits as well as a few new odd-rocs.
Visit the New Products at JonRocket.com page to see the complete list of the recently added products.
The weather forcast for Saturday, June 16, 2012, is looking good and JonRocket.com plans on attending the TTRA launch near Plant City, FL, on that day. The launch is a two-day affair this weekend, but we will, most likely, only attend the launch on Saturday.
Unfortunately, the weather isn’t cooperating and something else has come up to prevent us from attending the NEFAR launch this month.
We’ll try to make it next month.