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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>…. The government is getting into stuff it has no business/reason to get into. Now they want to classify model rocket engines as explosives. Talk about fear mongering…. Anyways, here is the link to the article at Tower Hobbies and an excerpt. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.towerhobbies.com/promos/e-mails/rocket_notice_092711.html">http://www.towerhobbies.com/promos/e-mails/rocket_notice_092711.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has recently advised that they propose to terminate a special permit under which model rocket motors and igniters have been shipped for the last 33 years. If the permit is terminated model rocket motors and igniters will no longer be able to be shipped as "Flammable Solids" and will instead have to be shipped as "Explosives."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve already dispatched my email to the Special Administrator.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Robert Beaubien<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- D7 Webmaster<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>"No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>