Model Forum / General / Rockets / May 2004

Can someone post links to sites of homemade rocket cameras? I have my design
down but I'm not too sure for the pic program, I am using a Kodak F-350
since it is small, light and I believe it has an electronic shutter.

I wonder what happened.  On April 21 I posted a message here to FLyA
that I had already posted and which had gone unanswered.  I asked him
when he was going to have the party for Bin Laden to celebrate the
terrorists' victory.  Again, no answer.  Too bad; I really wanted to

I just finished processing the pictures from this past weekend's
Southern Thunder 2004 launch in Manchester, TN.
492 made the cut.  The weather wasn't great yesterday but was very nice
on Saturday and there were a lot of cool launches.  The Saturday night

We interrupt your regularly scheduled flaming, to bring you
this important announcement.  Check the a.b.m.r. newsgroup
for LUNAR clips from TV this past Monday night.

Do any of you have any VB kits left around that you might part with. I need
a VB Extreme 24 and or 29.

Just curious ... do the dealers here think that they could even be a
profitable product?

Here you go Skippy. This link is to the NTSB web site.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001208X05743&key=1
You can see that improperly shipped oxidizers (oxygen generators)
brought down the ValuJet DC-9 passenger aircraft.

Essence Aerospace Technologies Introduces New Rocket Kit
April 30, 2004
Web posted at: 12:35 PM EDT
(ROL Newswire) --  Essence Aerospace Technologies (EAT) is proud to

Looks like I'm headed for England in for a week for business.
I'm hoping to have the following Saturday and sunday (May 1,2) free.
If there is a resonable chance of a rocket launch that weekend I'd hat to miss it.
My travel will take me to a town called 'Telford' and I could be ...

A long flash back.....then a launch report.
( I'm not a Homer Hickam but I think he'd enjoy this.)
On a very hot Saturday afternoon in late July of 1968, I saw my first
Centuri Saturn V at the local hobby store. I think it was a cluster kit.

There once was a roo named Skippy ...
He made some roo motors that he had to shippy ...
The law of the land, said Skippy to ship those is banned ...
But Skippy decided, his ego provided, that he would ship contraband ...

The construction article by Verna and Randy DeArman is complete with the
flight report, and the broken link to the Apollo program at NASA has been
repaired.
If you have not seen the construction article and pictures, it's worth a

email me at:  jerry-the-skippyroo@irvine_f.cks_people_4fun.com for details

On my L1 cert launch one of these systems was used. As I remember, it
consisted of greyish box which had a small antenna extending from the top
and a small remote resembling those used to remotely unlock your car doors.
It required an external 12v source.  On the top were the words ...

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