Model Forum / General / Rockets / September 2003

I got some Testors Transparent Candy Apple Red paint to do a rocket with
today.
The directions say to paint it over a base of silver, gold, or metallic
copper, and to spray mist coats of color until desired depth of color is

I was promised $300,000 a year when Fun Rockets became self-perpetuating
after the initial $30,000 tooling costs. Well, my oh so brilliant partner
inflicted compromises into the products to make them more commercial, but
were actually antithetical to the same, and I lost most of the ...

As kind of the 'official' videographer of the X30 Team, I worked a
little with some of the First Television folks (the ones doing the
show for the Discovery Channel). I just got off the phone with one of
the producers (Aug 26 - afternoon). I had some more footage to send

I had this interesting idea the other day.
To build a fiberglass tube, why not either laminate phenolic with
cloth and resin to a thickness over your desireed one, and then put it
on a lathe and turn it down with a tool bit to your desireed thickness

One of our club members found these.
John

I absolutely love Daffy's spaceship in the new "Duck Dodgers" series on Cartoon
Network! I wish I could find some decent pics of it -- would make an awesome
HPR model!

I'm a long time U.S. Space Program enthusiast, rocketeer, and scale
model spacecraft builder and I'm looking for sources of engineering data
so I can scratch build accurate scale models of U.S. sapacecraft such
as:

Had an hour to kill so went to hang out at the local mom and pop hobby store.
The have the usual slowly shrinking display of quest/custom/estes that is
slowly being taken over by RC Car stuff.  Anyways...what a pleasant
surprise...for the first time in a few years there were ...

I have four kits from The Launch Pad which I'd acquired, planning on
building them, but my time is getting sucked up faster than I'd figured
it would, so they're collecting dust.
I'll toss 'em up for auction, if need be, but feel free to make

I have been browsing around, and now need to consult the experts. Ok,  they
were not in so I'll ask you guys.
I'm building my first clustered kit (ASP Kappa 9) and wanted to know if
anyone had any pointers on clustered ignition schemes?

I'm trying to figure out this whole easy access LEUP 62.5 grain thing.
I'm hoping to cert level 1 next week have a friend who is helping with
the motor so I'm all set but I want to start to fly on my own. Most of
my stuff is large Estes with a mid power PML AMRAAM. I'd like to by a

Due to a conflict with a popular Notre Dame football game that affects
our ability to secure sufficient hotel rooms, and concerns about the
timing of the harvest, Michigan Team-1 has decided to reschedule our
Fall 2003 Three Oaks launch. The launch was originally scheduled for

MIT strikes again:
http://www.tacshot.com/
-Fred Shecter NAR 20117 MIT '80
http://www.tacshot.com/

I took my 50% off coupon and went down to the HL store in Carmel IN.  It
looks like they have completely cleared out all the Aerotech products.  
What gives?  Same wituation for the East Indy store.

I have a pile of New Launch Rods that I'm selling plus I can fabricate
others from stock.  Check out:
  http://www.bmicad.com/bmilrod1.html
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