Model Forum / General / Rockets / April 2005

I am very pleased to announce that all of the new plans mentioned
recently on YORF, OldRockets, and here on RMR, have now been posted to
the BARCLONE website and are ready to be downloaded.
Additionally, there is a new accessory jig from Bit Eimer for creating

I got my LDRS 23 video in the mail today from Doug Pratt.  All I
can say is "Great job, Chuck!!"  And I love that music, too.
I've only had time to watch the first disc (covering Thurs, Fri
and Sat, and running about an hour and a half).  The footage is

Rocketry is back at the AMA Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana. I
hope to see some of you there.
ROCI 2005 Sport Launches
Saturday, August 20th, Noon to 5:00 PM

I am a sophmore high school student that has just gotten into rocketry,
or at least into building them. I know somewhere between a beginner to
intermediate knowledge of rocketry in general, as well as model
rockets. I am also starting my own NAR section at my school. I haven't

 Ok, my one TARC team I'm mentoring has been having good luck with
their gap staging. Now they're going to a cluster design on the booster
to increase the accelaration off the pad. Likely they'll still be trying
gap staging. Personally this is something I've never done so I ...

VooDoo Digital Productions will be at MDRA starting friday and
continuing through the weekend on their April 22-24 three day launch.
We will be selling the LDRS 23 DVD set.  For each set sold $3 will be
donated to MDRA, in addition we'll be donating two of the DVD sets for

Has anyone considered an em pulse from cell phone ringing nearby active
recovery avionics electronics to be a risk of inadvertently triggering
the ejection charges? Should cell phones be restricted from being around
connected ematches, etc, during prepping as a safety precaution?

I'm building my first gap staged rocket out of two Baby Bertha kits. I'm
worried that the lower stage tube will get worn out rather quickly after
exposure to both the burnthrough on the booster motor and the ignition
of the sustainer. Should I use some sort of inner lining? Any

With the introduction of the Skyripper 29mm motors, I suspect it would be
possible to put together a hybrid powered rocket weighing much less than 3.3
lbs.
Am I correct in assuming, however, that such rockets cannot be launched

I am wondering, with all of the rain we've had, how are the conditions out
at El Mirage?  I can drive out and no doubt will soon but in the mean time,
if you've been out that way in the last week or so I would love to hear what
you found. Also, how about Lucerne?

   Thought it might be of interest to you all that the UK altitude record
was broken today ( 23/04/05 ) in fantastic style by Damian Hall, the rocket
was launched from SWARM's launch site in Devon. England. The rocket is a 2
stage vehicle with each stage powered by a PRO54 K660 ...

...I really wish they would make a serious effort at quality decals.
I just, pain stakingly, finishing my SpaceShipOne, masked it off and
airbrushed all of the red areas - it was perfect...and then, I started
to apply the "decals".   This piece of "S"  ruined my work.  First of

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050423/D89LCB3O0.html
The word military will not be noticed here, just the word rocket.
Chuck

I have looked all over and have yet to find a good site on building a dual
deployment Rocket.  I am looking for something that will help me build my
first Dual deployement rocket.  Does anyone know of any good sites that have
some good information, Pictures ect.  of building one.

I was talking to someone about how difficult it is to buy from a web site
nowadays. So many people have missed the point. As a web designer I was told
you should be able to buy something from a site in three clicks.
At last I found a site that allowed me to do this. It's called