Model Rockets

[skydiverbry 0]

Does anybody know anything about model rocketry? Lookin for something different to do while my back heals,checked out a few sites,but just thougt I could get some input from ya'll. Thanks, Bryan

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[sundevil777 102]

It is a lot easier now than when I did it as a kid in the early 70's. Back then you could only get kits where you had to glue the fins on. It was more 'rewarding', but a lot of work and the fins broke a lot. Now many kits have plastic injected bases with integral fins. The starter kits are amazingly cheap with complete launchers and everything. I used to put insects in the rockets with the clear nose cones, they never were hurt. I also tried to get them to catch fire when the parachute ejection charge would fire, but was unsuccessful. When the rockets were broken, at times we would just light off the engines by themselves, which of course meant they were unguided, unstable missiles - very exciting.

It is cheap entertainment, try it out.

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[warpedskydiver 0]

they fly upwards and when the propellant is used up and provides less thrust than the weight of the rocket it comes back down!

[skydiverbry 0]

Goin give it a try. But did'nt know if I should start at level1,seems too simple or if I would be OK at level2. Want some challenge and some thing to take up a little time to build,but not some thing over my head

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D.S.#13(Dudeist Skdiver)

[Tink1717 2]

I used to do that when I was a kid. I don't know what, if anything, it has evolved into. If you are healing, the time of building the rocket seems like a good way to kill time.

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[sundevil777 102]

I don't know about the levels now, but they're oriented towards kids, so I wouldn't be afraid of level 2.

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[skydiverbry 0]

What I was thinking BLUE SKIES

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[skydiverbry 0]

Well, if ya talk to my fiance I am a kid Just one that's 190lbs. and a couple of college degrees Hey can anyone come out to play?

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D.S.#13(Dudeist Skdiver)

[wmw999 2,584]

Email Kallend (a dz.com person who hangs out mostly in Speaker's Corner). He's an active rockets guy.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[skydiverbry 0]

Hey thanks lots Wendy BLUE SKIES

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[councilman24 37]

Somewhere I saw internet stuff about grown up rockets. Liquid fueled, thousands of feet. Seems like there was an altitude or fuel load limit.

google liquid hobby rockets and found this

"The high-end of the hobby had grown even larger, now including liquid hybrid fuel rockets. Electronics and microprocessors also made an impact. It was now possible to make accurate altitude and other flight-characteristic measurements. Payloads included cameras, telemetry, and even GPS (global positioning system) systems."


Hmmmm unless your talking about this level 1:

"In order to qualify to purchase and use engines of power classes from H to I, you must obtain a Level 1 certification, for which you are required to:

make a safe and successful flight of a rocket using an engine in that power class.
. which is witnessed by two other adult NAR members (at least one of whom is certified to the desired level);
have your witnesses sign a standard certification affidavit, available from NAR Headquarters or from our Filing Cabinet page);
return the signed form to NAR HQ
.and your name will be added to our list of qualified high power consumers for that engine class."

fromhttp://nar.org/hpcert/index.html

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[Buried 0]

dont' accidentally light an engine inside your house

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[AggieDave 6]

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dont' accidentally light an engine inside your house

Or in a church.


(a long but very funny story. ask me about it in person sometime and the story will be told...over a couple of beers of course)

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[bmcd308 0]

Get an Initiator.

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[AggieDave 6]

This one is cool, I built it as a kid:

http://www.estesrockets.com/cgi-bin/products.cgi?view,259

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Chizazz 0]

Taping a bunch of engines to a big plastic car and shooting it down the road is also quite entertaining.

[Viking 0]

My dad, my brother and I used to do that alot when i was a kid.

My brother built this bad boy!!
http://www.estesrockets.com/cgi-bin/products.cgi?view,259

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[sundevil777 102]

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Taping a bunch of engines to a big plastic car and shooting it down the road is also quite entertaining.

Yup, I did that too, only one engine though. I also would put about a cup of smokeless powder (reloading powder for rifle shells) in a glass coke bottle, and throw a match in. That would put a flame up about 5 feet high, and sound like a rocket. I'm sure glad my dad never found out about that. It does pretty good even to just put it in a big pile on the open ground too.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[jceman 1]

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Taping a bunch of engines to a big plastic car and shooting it down the road is also quite entertaining.

Estes now makes rocket-powered dragsters and Funny Cars.

Fer real!

I saw them in We-Screw-Em-All-Mart. ($ to MXC)

Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money.

Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

[sundevil777 102]

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This one is cool, I built it as a kid:

http://www.estesrockets.com/cgi-bin/products.cgi?view,259

The only 2 stage rocket I made had the nose cone so tight that it didn't pop off like normal. It went so high you couldn't see it, and came back down only about 100 feet away, without our seeing it, impaled itself in the dirt. Sure glad it didn't hit anyone/anything.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[turtlespeed 226]

I guess they don't make the one that was my favorite -

I modified it for E engines(Basically glued everything up real good) - it was called the Mean Machine - 6' tall and 2" in Diam.

went 500 feet or so -

The V-2 I still have and fly occaisonally is powered by E - but doesn't go nearly as high.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

When I was a kid we used to go up to Lake Estes, Colorado in the winter and ice skate and watch rednecks on snowmobiles race around. The Estes rocket plant was right next to the lake, on the "uphill" side.

[Balls 0]

Instead of the parachute you can put gun powder or a similar substance in. Not that I know from experience or anything... TOTALLY HYPOTHETICAL!!!!

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[sundevil777 102]

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Instead of the parachute you can put gun powder or a similar substance in. Not that I know from experience or anything... TOTALLY HYPOTHETICAL!!!!

I did! I put smokeless powder right on top of the engine - but no inferno. Maybe not enough oxygen, I didn't try but a couple times. Please tell of your success.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[philip2005 0]

Get an Estes fatboy and use with quest C6's awsome rocket. Better still "Big Daddy" is the ultimate estes rocket on D's! Make sure you build it right tho, ive had two total mal's on mine. Not sure i want it to fall from 350' with no canopy again! If you're in the UK www.modelrockets.com is the best place to get them.