Model Forum / General / Rockets / July 2005

FlisKits would like to invite everyone to NARAM 47 for a weeks worth of
fun and excitement with sport rocketry!
FlisKits will be there the whole week with a booth full of kits and a
whole lotta fun!

Just posted a bunch of Ravenna Rocket Research photos to my website.
If you have experiences/stories about these (and other older motors) to
share, please send them to me and I'll add them to the site.
- Dale Windsor

Hi folks.  Been quiet of of late.  2 Much work!!!
If you could help me answer a few questions....
A fellow rocket geek on the other side of the country has been
asking me about ADEPT altimeters etc...

Does anyone know if rocksim can simulate a shroud on a payload
section?  I'm designing a payload section for my multipod camera I
just ordered and am thinking of using a small mirror like the estes
astrocam does to look down the rocket.  Would like to use a shroud

I'm having trouble contacting my seller in an ROL auction.  Now that
he's got my money, he hasn't sent my kit, and he won't respond to
emails.  Before I go from concerned to pissed off, I wondered if anyone
has heard of Jeff Jones, 1760 Sawyer Road, Traverse City, MI 49684.  If

When we got up this morning, the weather conditions, technical conditions at
the Cape and my work conditions all looked favorable, so we set off on a
road trip up the Space Coast to Port Canaveral to watch the STS 114 launch
from the beach near Jetty Point. This put us about 6 ...

Congratulations to NASA and Godspeed, Discovery.
Cool video from external tank camera.

So I went to buy Elmer's Fill 'n' Finish, aka 'Carpenter's Finishing Wood
Filler' and couldn't find it at two different Home Improvement type stores.
Has the name of the product changed again?  I want to make sure that I don't
buy the somewhat similar heavy duty stuff that's too ...

I must be slipping. Any one up for an RMR gathering at NARAM. once again,
there's stuff going on in the evening all week, but Saturday night looks
like it's clear.
And any one know the area well enough to recommend a place that folks can

Hey Guys,
       Do any of you have an alternative method to using the
shrinkwrap method for the christmas light ejection charges?
Anyone tried the sandwich bag approach with a christmas light instead

Check out the new imagery on Google:
http://moon.google.com/
Zoom in on the various landing sites. <g>

Where can I find a supplier for bulk quantity engines?
Tired of 3 packs.  I'd like to get 25 packs.  Then at least when I go
to a launch, I can say "sure, I've got one for you".
eric

BFG Photography is pleased to announce the internet publication of the
pictures captured at this
year's NYPOWER, held in Geneseo, New York.
Please follow the Links from my Home page or from my Gallery 1 page to

Everyone,
Despite the fact that I don't have Jerry killfiled, and occasionally
post to RMR in agreement with things he says, I have, nonetheless,
been admitted into the "inner circle".  I am now officially a