Model Forum / General / Rockets / September 2004

After nearly a year of planning, construction and weather
delays we made a perfect maiden flight of our 1/4 scale,
65 pound Battlestar Galactica Viper on an M-1400 motor.
This motor produces over 400 lbs of thrust for over

Does anyone have link to this document, I can't find it on the NAR site???
Thanks,
Rich Kroboth
TRA#4148

 I got the announcement this week about the changes in the TARC rules.
Being a mentor I got to thinking about the new set of variables that the
teams will have to deal with for a successful shot at it. The most
obvious ones would be balancing the apogee and deployment altitude ...

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Hey what the deal??(:-)

I found the below message on the Commonwealth Web site (
http://www.commonwealth.net/rocketstore/home.html )    Since when does
any Estes Motor require hazmat shipping fees?  IS this a actual
requirement or a attempt to increase profits?? Shame Shame

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2567&item=5917155325&rd=1
I better be a little more careful with the ones I have!

I want to buy the Estes Mean Machine but dont have anywhere to store
something 6 feet tall like that.
So,I was thinking of attachine the cone permanently,and instead of gluing
all 4 sections of tube together,attach 2 and 2 and noy gluing them together

becuase of Niall's hosting problems i've put his pictures on my website
http://www.ukrocketry.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=2004
This guy is very snap happy, so there is quite a few to have a look at.
Enjoy

Built first rocket in 1960 !
Back in hobby for grand kids !
I'm going to build "dual" rocket with Ester C or D engines' How do I get
simultaneous ignition on engines ?

Built first rockets in 1960 I'm back in for grandchildren !
Thinking of building "dual' rocket Estes C or D engines.
How do I get simultaneous engine
ignition ?

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Blind Youth Launch Sounding Rocket at NASA
August 27, 2004
Web posted at: 1:09 PM EDT
(ROL Newswire) --  Twelve blind youth, who planned and conducted a

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If interested, please check them out:
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what is the step by step procedure for zeroing 2 altitude trackers with one
another?
shockie B)

I see that a Estes Mean Machine will go about 600-700ft on  D123.
Anyone ever launch one with a C11? Will it get about half that altitude?