The Canadian Association of Rocketry (CAR) is pleased to announce
that Vince Chichak has accepted an appointment as Assistant Chief RSO.



As many of you know, Vince recently had the arduous task of being RSO
at LDRS24. Surprisingly this did not completely burn him out!



The RSO Committee is currently in the process of both actively
recruiting potential RSOs across Canada, as well as undertaking a
review of the current RSO, RI and LCO practices and formats.

The Canadian Association of Rocketry (CAR) is pleased to announce that Garth Illerbrun has agreed to serve as the Chairman of the Model Rocket Committee, effective immediately. Garth has long been interested in model rocketry specifically and all of amatuer rocketry in general. Garth has served as a Chairman of CAR in the past and remains active locally in the CRA, organizing the annual Southern Alberta Meet (SAM), a model rocket competition between ERC in Edmonton, LRA in Lethbridge and CRA in Calgary.

Garth also is a partner in Suborbital Technology, an Aerotech dealer and model rocket kit supplier.

More significantly, Garth has been instrumental in the delivery of a model rocketry course tought the last few years through the Calgary Aerospace Museum.

You can now download the latest issue of the CAR Earthrise Newsletter.

The CAR Executive would like to apologize for the delay making this issue of Earthrise available while the distribution of Earthrise was examined. As a result of this examination, future issues of Earthrise will only be available electronically.

The CAR Electronics Endorsement Program information has been added to CARWeb.

The Canadian Association of Rocketry (CAR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Max Baines to the position of Chief Range Safety Officer (RSO) and RSO Committee chairman effective immediately.

This is an extremely important position at CAR going into the future and Max is the right person for the job. He has an excellent relationship with Transport Canada and a vast amount of experience as (RSO) and launch organizer.

The RSO Committees responsibilities include, developing and maintaining CAR's RSO and Rocket Inspector (RI) programs, as well as reviewing accident reports and extreme flight requests with other committees. In addition, as Chief RSO, Max will be responsible for overseeing all launch applications and post-launch reports.