Model Forum / General / Rockets / January 2004

Seems like every where I look I can not find 29mm diameter rocket motors for
my Aerotek Cheetah. Lots of vendors have them listed but are usually out of
stock or when ordered they are backordered with no delivery date.
Communication is poor with most dealers on the internet.

Anybody have a report from the Aerotech bankruptcy auction today?
Kevin Patterson
http://www.trailertrashaerospace.com

OK, I got myself in a slight pickle.
I promised my 3 year old I'd take him to see rockets - in March.  Well, he
doesn't want to see rockets (at Cape Kennedy) in March, he wants them
*now*.

As has been noted previously, Michael's Arts & Crafts stores and Estes
have begun a promotion supporting Boy Scouts Space Exploration
Merit Badges.  They will give each scout working on their merit badge
a free Estes rocket kit and provide space to troops for their build

I am giving serious consideration to making my own tracking smoke
canisters in 29mm and 38mm sizes... just right to fit into a Pro38 or AT
motor casing and then into a motor tube either set up as one tube of a
cluster at the aft end... or into a tube built into the nosecone.

I ran across this website today and thought I would share it w/ everyone.
http://www.emachineshop.com/
I have not used this service before, but I am curious if anyone else has?
paul g.

The new mid-power nose cones fit! Yeah!!! Mid-power Shrox magic coming soon...
shrox

Switching to Estes motors for the next round of rockets.  Where are the best
deals, and how much are they for a pack of D and E motors?  Thanks!
-B

I finished scratch building an Estes Falcon boost glider, and after several
test tosses, tried the first flight on an Estes 1/2A6-2.  Nice, straight
boost, motor out at apogee, and it came down almost as straight as it went
up.  The dis-assembly was complete.

What topic should I do? I have a free choice of anything, and he recommends
it be something you like (rockets in my case). What are some ideas of
different topics I could do? I would like to do one that somewhat pertains
to EX rocketry, but anything is good. I was thinking something ...

My kids and I just got bit by this model rocketry bug.  Does anyone
know of a location within a few hours of the Bay Area in Ca that
launches the "larger" size rockets?  We've "successfully" launched
three rockets at a park in our town, and we QUICKLY learned that a "C"

Hi All...
Just wandering... anyone have some links to the new NASA craft
on the drawing table for the so called moon/mars missions?
HDS

Going back 31 years, the Centuri Hummingbird was my favorite rocket.
For those interested in that particular rocket, I have just finished
posting patterns, and copies of the directions suitable for building a
decent clone.  Go to http://astrocam.aea6.k12.ia.us/hummingbird.html

http://www2.mailordercentral.com/quantummodels/
Type in SR-71 in the search box.
They're back!
(Tip provided by someone at the AMA Convention last weekend).

Does anybody remember the url of that site where the author put some
very nice 3D drawings of RMS motors of any size?
It was posted here some weeks ago, but I cannot trace it anymore.
A big thank you to anybody can help me!