On the morning of Wednesday the 23rd of July, Pim Heydt, former president and one of the first members of Tripoli the Netherlands, died in the age of 53. Pim died as a result of complications after a heart arrest / attack he suffered last week.

UKRA can today announce some changes to its Youth Outreach scheme; Phil Charlesworth – long time head of the programme – is stepping down to concentrate on other commitments and will be replaced by Rod Stevenson.

Just in case anyone is not a regular viewer; Blue Peter are tonight launching their rocket! 4.35pm on BBC1 and presumably on the BBC's iPlayer for those having to work beyond the normal CBBC hours of operation

http://www.ukra.org.uk/BluePeter

Aircraft Holding Stack over EARS
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As some of you may know there's a proposal to introduce an aircraft holding stack over the EARS site. The proposal is part of public consultation being conducted by NATS (National Air Traffic Services). The proposed stack has the potential to significantly limit the altitude of flights from the site - so EARS and UKRA are in negotiations with NATS into ways that higher flights can continue.

Due to very wet and windy weather the 2008 UKAYRoC fly-offs had to move to their wet weather programme. The teams each had to do a 5 minute presentation on their path to the fly-offs and the judging from this along with their qualifying flight was used to determine the 2008 winners. The winning teams were:

On Thursday 28th February the finalists of UKAYRoC were announced.

UKRA would like to congratulate all the teams who took part in the challenge and wish luck to the 20 teams who have go through to the fly-off which will be held on Friday 28th March at the UK Space conference.

The team who are through to the fly-offs are: