Re: The Point of November 5th
"where is Screaming Lord Sutch"
He died 20 years ago. Sooo.... probably do a better job than Boris.
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The UKRA (Rocketry Association) have regular meets around the country (a massive field near Cambridge springs to mind).
Regular altitude top-outs at 6000 feet plus....
They will have a NOTAM declared to warn pilots to keep away, for the day, and also you don't launch if you can hear a 'plane.
The high power rocket enthusiast can safely be placed in the same bag as the model 'plane enthusiast - these things, whilst carrying massive kinetic energy, are hugely expensive to build and to fly. You don't want it landing in a tree or in an Airbus.
(Or deploying the chute at 6000' and getting caught in the breeze and never being seen again... IGMC, it's the one with the pyrodex in the pocket)
Imagine our surprise testing the new firmware on a collimated neutron detector when we found a seagull nest gently radiating americium neutrons on the flat roof of building 37 - pity the poor sap who had a desk on the other side of the wall from it - his dosage film always came back black, now we knew why :)