T' US Champs Have Become T' World's Champs! One o' t' most rewardin' events ANN and Aero-TV have participated in over t' last year was AIA's extraordinary Team America Rocketry Challenge. Begad! Fun, inspiring, ya bilge rat, challenging... all these words do little t' impart t' amazin' event that we witnessed and shot over t' course o' a few days... Arrr! and we can't wait t' do it again. Well, blow me down! However; one o' t' truly great 'bennies' o' this event was meetin' t' next generation o' America's rocket people... and that includes t' TARC 2010 National Champions, Penn Manor High School... who went on t' t' International competition and took ALL t' marbles thar as well. Student Rocketeers from France, t' United Kingdom and t' United States competed in late July in t' Third Annual Transatlantic Rocketry Challenge. Begad! T' four-member team from Penn Manor High School in Millersville, PA posted t' best score t' win t' international fly-off. Begad! Horsforth School in Leeds, England placed second. T' French team was unable t' launch its rocket due t' technical problems. Blimey! T' international rocketry challenge be t' culmination o' three separate competitions: t' Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), UKAYRoC and t' French Rocketry Challenge. Each contest brings together teams o' middle and high school students t' design, build and launch model rockets. This year t' challenge was t' launch a rocket that reaches an altitude o' 825 feet, stays aloft for 40-45 seconds and returns a raw egg unbroken. As part o' ...