The NSWRA flying field is in Doonside on the corner of the Great Western Highway and Doonside Road. The club holds a regular launch day on the 2nd Sunday and last Saturday of each month starting at 8am. Launches normally finish around 1pm.

We also have another site used for high power launches. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has given approval to launch at both sites.

What type of Rocket Motors are there?

The rocket motors available for use are commercially available, Australian legal, solid fuel motors.These motors have a long history of safe reliable use throughout the world.

Motors are given a letter designation such as A, B, C, D, etc. The letter stands for the level of impulse (push) of the motor with every next letter being twice as powerful as the previous. For example, a B motor is twice as powerful as an A motor, a C motor is twice as powerful as a B motor.

Large Model Rocket Certification with the NSWRA can provide you with access to E, F, and G motors. High Power Certification will give you access to anything up to N motors - now this is really big stuff!! (A pyrotechnics licences will be needed for the big stuff)

The most common rockets are single engine, single stage models, scale models, boost gliders, multi-stage, saucer shape models, and high-power rockets. Rockets can be either purchased ready-to-fly or in kit form from hobby shops, or built from your own design. (Known as scratch-built rockets).

The Club has contacts to other groups and organisations that get into the more advanced rocketry. Just be aware that due to the dangers in advanced rocketry other groups may only give you access if you have experience in high power rocketry and have good references from others involved in rocketry.