Model Forum / General / Rockets / July 2004

Chaps,
What method and kit do you use for tracking and recovering rockets in the
USA and beyond?
Is there a preferred option, ie RF beacon? What are the preferred

The last year and 1/2 have been very traumatic for me due to a few deaths in my
family, one of them being my father and one being my uncle. Shortly after that
I had to deal with more tragedy, the death of two very close friends all with
in a 4 month span. On top of that, I recently ...

Man, that was a blast!(pun intended)  That was the first time I'd been to
Michigan International Speedway grounds.
I got a chance to meet Mark and his daughter Emily, Jim, Matt, Bill, and a
couple others whose names escape me right now - sorry.  I probably saw about 30

 I am interested in building a flying scale model rocket of the BQM-74E
Target Drone from Northrop-Grumman.  Does any one have any info on this
aircraft?  All I have found so far is length, diameter, and wingspan.  Any
help would be appreciated.

Wondering if anyone has ever built a simple remote control ignition
system.  This would be really simple to do.  Just hook a make or break
connection between a battery and the wires going to your igniter across
a mechanical servo and when it moves the wires together, whoosh.  The ...

Canadian rocket team readies for space
July 15 - Canada's Brian Feeney says his Da Vinci Project staff is
ready to challenge SpaceShipOne for the Ansari X-Prize and expects to
roll out his more conventional-looking rocket (compared to

I just installed VCP on a system running XP. It complains of a
"printer error". It worked fine on my old XP system. Anyone seen this
problem and know how to fix it?
Cheers

I am looking for any good suggestions to set up a payload section to take
photo's for my son. We can use a 3 or 4" tube.
Thanks for any help.
Dennis

is there a reason that you choose the styles or because thats what is
available, has anyone ever milled a "T" section into 1 inch square stock? any
reasons why this is not good? thanks, LeRoY Bonawitz

Whenabouts are the launches up there in the frozen land of Lincoln next
month?  Might be able to swing one,...
Joel. phx

METRA is hosting a Sport launch  SAT and Sun in Pine Island NY.
HPR vendor onsite in addition to a food vendor and porto lav.
12,000 ft AGL waiver  Plese see our wesite for details...
www.metrarocketclub.org

Well, I hung out behind the camera on Friday and I think I got a good
chunk of the flights that went up.
http://www.snear.org/LDRS23/
If you want your rockets identified on the website, feel free to send

When I was a teenager(late 70's), I had a few rocket that I occasionally
launched.  Nothing special - I don't think I had anything larger than a "B"
engine.  Now at 41, I'd like to try it again with my fiancee's kids.  The girl
is 10, and the boy is 4.  Are they old enough?  I ...

I decided at the last minute to drive the 2144 miles round trip to LDRS in
New York.  I was only there on Saturday and decided to leave Saturday
evening after seeing the weather forecast for thunderstorms for Sunday.
I must be spoiled by the last two LDRSes, particularly Argonia ...