Back In The Day, Part 29 - Some NARAM 11 Pictures!

Today's post topic goes back nearly 51 years - all the way to August, 1969.  

The place: The United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

The event: NARAM 11.

As I've mentioned before on this blog, I was there as a spectator getting my first ever taste of model rocketry. 

The Sunday following the meet, the local Colorado Springs newspaper published a very nice article in the 'leisure' section covering the meet, complete with lots of photos.  As a thirteen year old kid at the time, I had the presence of mind to save that article.  I just found the well-yellowed pages today in one of my numerous model rocketry binders.

So, without further ado, here are scans of those long ago pics taken by a newspaper staff photographer. Sorry that some of them are skewed a little bit - the pages were somewhat difficult to align properly on the glass.

There are only two pictures that have the subject rocketeer identified.  If any of you can recognize (or even BE) one of the persons in any of the photos, please post your info here in the comments section.  It would be nice to put some names to these faces.

There are a few shots mixed in here that were taken by the photographer during a tour of Estes Industries:

Yikes! Just look at all those vintage blue model rocket motor shipping tubes!  Ok, it's a B&W photo - just pretend they're blue!

I believe the following image might be that of  Sven Englund of The New Canaan Space Pioneers prepping his egglofting entry. Someone please correct me if you know differently.

This pic is of Vern Estes himself manning the launch control panel as RCO:

Cheers!