Re: An American Rocketeer in LONDON
- From: Mike Roberts <mike.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:05:10 GMT
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:28:07 GMT, "Mark A Palmer"
<mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>1. Where to shop in London (and various other locations including Leeds and
>Glasgow) for rocketry related things (Quest/Estes through L3 High Power).
Hi Mark,
There are very few bricks and mortar shops in the UK most are run from
home and are online stores. That said many will happy to receive
visitors by prior appointment. Having spent last Sunday at the London
Model Engineering Show on the UKRA stand with Richard Brown of the
Rocket Store I know he has a shop. His web site is
http://www.rocketstore.co.uk/ otherwise check out the UKRA website at
http://www.ukra.org.uk/ for vendors.
>2. Launch/event/meeting calendars and locations.
EARS are possibly not the closest to London but as club sec I will
give our club a plug anyway . Launches 1st Sunday (with the odd
exception this year) of the month March to December . The EARS website
is http://www.ears.org.uk/ It needs an update which I should get round
to this weekend. We fly from a site near the town of Papworth Everard
just off the A428 to the west of Cambridge. Also in the South are
CROCK http://www.crock.org.uk/ , HART http://www.hartrockets.co.uk/
and SERFS http://www.serfs.org.uk/. Otherwise, again, the UKRA website
will point you at other clubs around the country.
Events of Note would be:-
BigEARS Launch the first weekend in May 2 days
UKRA2006 National event 3 day event 9th to 11th June in Lincolnshire
BK Flamer 2 days run by BlackKnights 15th to 16th July 2006
http://www.blackknights.org.uk/
>
>3.Rocketry related museums and historic sites (scheduling a trip to
>Duxford..possible next Saturday).
Science Museum in Knightsbridge has to be worth a visit
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
And the National Space Centre at Leicseter http://www.nssc.co.uk/
Nearly Rocket related would be the RAF Museum at Hendon in North
London. http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/
And the Shuttleworth Collection which is just off the A1 at
Biggleswade http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth/index.htm
Non Rocket related and all in the same place as the Science Museum are
The Natural History Museum - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
The Victoria and Albert Museum - http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Are both well worth spending many hours in.
Cheers Mike 8-{>
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