05-02-2009, 01:02 PM
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Freeform rocketry advocate.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Claremont, CA "The intellectual capitol of the world."-WSJ
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Originally Posted by dwmzmm
Jerry, that second link's article has a very familiar name, Matt Ota. He's an old buddy of mine from the 1970's; we met in central Texas for a NAR Regional Meet in Dripping Springs,
TX (Matt was in the Air Force then, stationed at Reese AFB near Lubbock). He took some
fantastic pictures of my Saturn - IV clustered payloader, which I still have today (the pics).
I'm still in touch with him; he's working at some observatory in California.
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Matt flew rockets at Lucerne and before that with the local model rocket clubs here in CA in the early 80's.
There are quite a few photos of Matt Ota in CRm. He was there for the start of HPR as it was formalized. He wasn't very political. He and moose and tooch just flew rockets. 
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