The last meeting of the H.A.R.T. rocket club of 1999 was on a cold but dry day with a light gusty wind.

The first to launch was Laurie with his well flown Nova rocket which did a nice flight and was soon recovered after a short walk.

Gavin and his friend soon arrived and he armed and launched his Falcon rocket on a B engine, the rocket left the pad with a high kick and flash of yellow flame as the rocket climbed skywards.

The rocket did a nice flight but the parachute failed and the Falcon can back to earth with a bump.

Steve has also arrived with some of his family and some friends and soon a number of rockets were heading skywards

Steve's rockets did great flights and a few of his rockets made great corkscrew smoke trails as the rocket headed for the clouds.

Laurie then launched his Voodoo on a D12-3 engine, the rocket left the pad under a nice bright flame, but on ejection the parachute got wrapped around the rocket's fins and the rocket returned to earth at all most the same speed as it had left.

Paul and his dad turned up with a number of old and new rockets and the first to fly was his Blue Frost which did a nice flight, but Paul's next rocket was not so lucky, the rocket left the pad under its D engines power and reached a good height,

Paul was unsure what delay the engine was as the label had come off but he was sure it was either a 3 or 5 second delay.

We all watched as the rocket returned to earth and we all waited for the ejection charge to fire, but it never did.

The rocket crashed into the ground behind some small trees and Paul and his dad headed off to retrieve it, When they returned we all saw the "core sample" the rocket had collected, but amazingly little damage had been done and after a few minutes of removing the mud and dirt and rearming, the rocket again headed skywards but this time did a perfect flight and recovery.

I then armed and Launched my H.A.R.T. Attack rocket on it's power of 7 D's, I waited for the wind to die down and then pushed the launch buttons.

H.A.R.T. Attack powered of the pad for it's forth flight under 7 bright flames and a loud deep roar.

The rocket soon reached it's peak altitude of about 500 feet and we all waited for the 44 inch parachute to be deployed.

After a few seconds of praying from me the ejection charges fired and the green parachute was pushed out.

The parachute's shroud lines slowly unravelled before it fully opened and brought the rocket safety back to earth.

Paul then launched his rocket called "The Cow" under the power of a cluster of a D and 3 C's.

The rocket shot of the pad but the force was too much for the rocket to take and the parachute separated from the rocket and drifted into the distance while the rocket tumbled to the ground.

During the meeting was had 12 members who launched around 25 rockets.

As we packed up and headed for home we all talked about our winter projects, and by the sound of it next year will be very interesting, but we will have to wait and see.