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http://www.skytran.net/
Scan and report.
Amuzing.

http://rocketryonline.com/cgi-bin/auctions/auction.cgi?propulsion&1129582339

Check out the out the launch of the manned shenzhou 6 spacecraft.
Notice the rocket in the upperleft corner :)
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/china/events/shenzhou6/index.htm

Can somebody help me out, please?
I need to convert two lat-long coordinates to straight line distances
(feet or meters is fine).  For the distances involved, I can assume a
"flat earth". :-)

Has any of you had an problems getting your approval as of lately ?
Here is a quick overview of my nightmare of working with the BATFE.
1. Got approval from the fire chief to store my approved magazine in a
barn and paid the $75 fee.

Any thought of how much FFFF to use for my ejection charge. I will need to
pressurizes a inch X 18 inch tube. No piston. Thanks. Dennis

Hi can anyone help, while putting together a 165 R reload, the liner
was tight sliding into the case, I thought just push and it will slide
in, I was wrong as it got tighter, ok, maybe put it on the table and
and use the nozzle and tap a little with a wood hammer and that damaged

The following is a copy of the message I posted to our club Yahoogroup. Here
is the website that will be updated in the near future:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mebowitz/
Hello,

http://therocketryforum.com/forums/
Forum seems to be unavailable...

Yesterday evening I stopped at Hobby Lobby to check out their sales (half
price on plastic models, wood, and knives). But when checking out the
rockets, I noticed something new, the "speed something". It looked like a
redo of the MaxTrax except this one claims to measure speed ...

So I've been... inactive for awhile. Are there any commercial HPR GPS
units around... or are there any small, not fabulously expensive units
of any kind with 10-20Hz sampling rate?
-Larry (No, huh?) C.

I've finally posted my pics from PlasterBlaster:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=3009006&a=31924105
I flew four camera rockets at PB4.  The first was a 2.6" diameter
rocket with 38mm strap-on boosters. The boosters were loaded with

Mike (from LARF) has just emailed me a few pictures taken from Klob 2005.
There is a stunning shot of the flame in Graham's L3 cert flight.
Check them at www.ukrocketry.com
Damian

I posted pics of a 1.25 upscale of the Astron NightHawk to a.b.m.r, if
anyone is interested.
This was a super fun build. I had forgotten how much actual 'modeling' went
into the construction of this bird. Hand launches like a dream... 70'+