Model Forum / General / Rockets / August 2004

So my wife was watching CSI last night and I walked into see a scene where
there was a science project of a volcano and a bottle of AP.
They said something to the effect that it was the main ingredient in
explosives.

I've been accumulating pics from launches  since January and since I STILL
haven't gotten around to re-working my site I thought (and was prodded by
Utley) to post some anyway....
I use a Nikon D100, Nikkor 24-120mm and a Nikkor 80-400mm image stabilized

Went out with the kids to launch today.  Things were going ok for a while.
Then I lost my Razor(on its 1st flight) to a rocket-eating tree.  Man, that
thing gets up in the air - even on a B6-4.  A few launches later, my SnapShot
broke the shock cord.  We recovered both the booster ...

I'm working on an article for some of the newbies in our club.  Does
anyone have any favorite beepers of personal alarms?  Also, do you
know of any article that are already written on the subject?
A few things that I already own / use are:

I've been flying rockets for many years and motor construction is the next
reasonable step. I've been reading like crazy on the subject learning about
safety and propellants but there is very little good information on
construction small motors (c-f). I've ordered "Amateur Rocket ...

I just received the Peter Alway 1/195 Saturn V scale model (ordered
through Jonrockets), and took a look at the enclosed parts and instructions.
I will bow down and genuflect in the direction of Ann Arbor, Michigan as
soon as I recover.

How do I attract press coverage & other PR to expand out club?
Thanks

Ok, I promised to get the links to many of the regulars here, so here I go.
This page has the On Board videos from my Loc Booster Bruiser.
This paper Bruiser has flown on the Pro54 K660 at LDRS, and now the Pro75
L800 to just shy under a mile by a few feet.

This may be a dumb question  (aren't statements like this ALWAYS
followed by a dumb question?)
Anyway...
I live in the portland oregon area, and I just bought an estes starter

Many Library's across the US have a program called One Book, One Community,
where the encourage the community to read a book and discuss it. In
Pennsylvania the book chosen was "Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam. Check out :
http://www.oboc.org

I don't know how many of you get Air & Space Smithsonian.  This
month's issue has a 2-page article on Herb Desind and a picture of him
prepping a Cineroc for launch.

I am curious why people have moved away from using shavings from motor
propellant to make igniters. I recall reading where rocketeers use to make
igniters by wrapping a little nichrome wire around a piece of propellant cut
from an AP grain. Cost why, it is cheap and it is easy too. ...

When have you experience fin breakage?
1) going up
2) at deployment
3) the sudden stop at the bottom

I just uploaded some data on igniters. It's in the "Research" area of the
rocketmaterials website. Any comments? Should I continue the project?
Doc

(This has also been posted on ROL. At the moment, TRF is down.)
Ok, this one I had to share. Not sure if anyone has heard of "The
Foundation For a Better Life", but I just saw one of their commercials
and raced to their website. Low and behold, all of the commercials are