Model Forum / General / Rockets / May 2004

I need a reliable igniter for cluster ignition of AT motors in the F and G
class. I usually use home-dipped igniterman igniters but due to my own
inability to gap them consistantly, I sometimes do not get simultanious
ignition. My first thought was to try Firstfires. However, nobody ...

You've got to check this out.
http://www.mdrocketry.org/photos/LibertyLaunch/Liberty.html

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DATE: 5-21-2004

Is the company still in business and if so do they have a website?
The link on buyrockets.com is no longer any good.
Thanks!
David Tietz

From News of the Weird -
* In April, Luftee Abdul Waalee, 48, was sentenced to three years
in prison for trying to pass a fake U.S. Treasury check for $25
million at a credit union in Pittsburgh, Pa.  According to the

Ok I've just read the HPR/Tripoli report and don't follow many threads here,
.....but
I am not sure why we are so happy about the PAD ruling when it obviously
clear that we LOST the main and biggest point for getting regulatory

What's the smallest rocket (and motor class) that you've seen
successfully use electronic staging?
I'm thinking of building a demonstrator, and I'm wondering how small it
might be practical to make it.

I think I have heard it all now........the UK back in WW2 considered used
Homing Pigeons to carry bio-weapons.....I'm sure the Muslim extremists
really like this idea, talk about cheap and dirty.....and who needs rockets
to deliver WMD when you got trained birds..... I guess now the ...

Recently I purchased some 9/32" aluminum tubing at Hobby Lobby to use
for 1/4" launch lugs. I figure if I rough the surface & use some 30
minute epoxy, they should hold to the body tube. Anybody else tried
this? DR

I've just finished uploading a few new rocket aerial photos. Most of them are
from a new payload design using an electronic timer. The timer was supplied by
Daniel Franklin. Since it requires less physical space than the "servo and
lever" mechanism in my previous payloads, I was ...

In the May issue of High Power Rocketry magazine, I noticed the photo of
Ken Good with his Delamar rocket.  The caption said the rocket was a
prototype of a new Air-X line of three rockets ... "produced by Eric
Haberman, formerly of DynaCom."  I am SO glad to hear that Eric is ...

 I have been trying to find a pic of Dr.Evils interestingly shaped rocket.
Any one have links to a pic or plans?

A Story…….
Fred Brennion and I were traveling back from the awesome flight to space of the
CXST rocket.  As we're heading back from Black Rock, being the yuppie that I
am, I had the hankering for a raspberry mocha with soy milk, topped with

I was reading about the Alpha 40 Project, and I thought some might find
this amusing. . .
The Alpha 4 is something I invented on a whim, by bashing together an
Alpha with an Alpha III kit.  It uses the plastic fin cannister from

Been playing around in Rocksim with rockets built up primarily of
transitions.
Could someone give me an explanation, in layman's terms, of why a cone
is so much more stable than say an ogive transition?