Model Forum / General / Rockets / November 2004

First, I aint gonna listen to your opinions cause I got one of my own. I
mainly wanna see how many pitchforks and torches arise from this topic.
OK, I've been looking at bigger rockets. say a 80" diameter about 25 foot
long. still aint sure what to run in it.

  I have been toying around with the idea of making an R/C boost glider out
of a material called coroplast, its like box cardboard only its plastic, it
will be like a round  flying wing design with flaperons. It will piggyback
on a normal rocket and separate at apogee. Any ideas, ...

Got an invitation to join a yahoo group (name withheld) that supposedly
dealt with space.
Turned out it was more like "polititians and wannabes who want to talk about
funding and support for NASA"

 Did anyone see film of the fireworks plant/storage going up in Denmark (at
least I think it was there).  Quite the pyrotechnical show -- hope no one was
hurt.
Fly straight and true!

Anybody know what happened to Impulse Aerospace and their Quad-Pod
launcher? The web site has vanished...

This should make a few people happy.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137556,00.html
Mario Perdue
NAR #22012 Sr. L2

Here is a link to a pic of a new launch pad we hope to have availible soon, the
pic is of a prototype and the production model will be 50 % larger with a six
foot foot print, it is constructed out of stainlees steel and aluminum and have
an angled blast deflector for use with rails ...

 I've noticed that some motors are more impressive than others with the
smoke, fire, and sound they produce. The first time I noticed this was
when I flew a G80, personally I think it blows the doors off an H128
flight for getting a specator's attention. Another one that stands ...

I am building a rocket that is overstable by 3 to 4 caliblers. Rocsim
says that it will still go about 1,700 feet, but I wasnt sure if there
are any problems that could arise. I forgot to mention that it is a 7
motor cluster I'm doing, so Im not sure if that will cause any

So I bought some Pyrodex P the other day only to discover shortly thereafter
that it isn't supposed to be that good for making quickmatch (according to
PyroUniverse).
But since I already had it, I experimented a bit and it seems to me it works

heres an obit about a Dr. George Flynn
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/09/02/george_flynn_chi
ld_prodigy_became_researcher_at_brown/
was this our George J. Flynn that published the Model Rocketry magazine back
in the late 60's-early 70's?

The ShadowAero website is back up, sorry for the delay.
-Dave Triano, ShadowAero
http://www.shadowaero.com

Joint Statement on BATF Litigation, November 2, 2004
November 3, 2004
Web posted at: 1:03 PM EST
(ROL Newswire) --  ROL has received the following joint statement from

I don't think I've posted this already, but I just found that you can search
the FAA NOTAM database online. Go to
    https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/geo/radiusForm.html
and then enter the TLA for your closest airport to see NOTAMs for your area.

Sunward Aerospace has recently changed hands, and while talking to the
new owner (a very nice man) I realized that I have kinda left Sunward
on the back shelf recently. Sometimes a kit or company will just kinda
get lost in the shuffle, but I'd like to take this opprotunity to