Model Forum / General / Rockets / October 2005

I'm soliciting recommendations for a rail launcher, hopefully based on
actual usage.  I seem to recall someone advertising one here several
months ago, but I've not been able to find it.
I'm looking for something easy to carry in the car, but with a

NASA & Company Diplomacy - Trying to keep Moon Landing Hoax a secret in
modern times
http://groups.google.com/group/fooled
Some strategies being used by NASA & Company in relation to China and

I'm reading a copy of the American Modeler magazine, mar/apr 1963 and
G.Harry Stine  mentions a new model rocket company called Scientific Amateur
Supply Co.(SASCO) in Ogden,Utah by what he calls a Thiokol propellant
chemist named John Rahkonen.

Subject  Line says it all. Ninfinger has a 62 and 64 catalog. I assume a 63
catalog was produced. Anybody know?  I am trying to determine if the 63
catalog showed the Acro-Bat BG.
TIA

Can't connect from here, looks like other sites are ok - anyone else
having problems?
G.

G-Wiz MC 2.0 Flight Computer Bug Discovered
October 12, 2005
Web posted at: 4:47 PM EDT
(ROL Newswire) --  After observing some anomalous behaviors of MC 2.0,

Ok, I finally got a chance to fly my Estes Oracle today and it
actually worked.  So now I've got this 71,785 KB avi file, which is
obviously way too big to put up on a website.  I think I have to
convert the file to something else to get it down to a manageable

METRA Launch November 5 / 6 Pine Island NY
METRA [ home of the first NERRF launch ] is holding a 2 day INDY Launch on
Nov. 5th and 6th.
INDY = EX and Commercial combined launch]

Any ideas where to get one of these beasties???
Peter

http://www.airlaunchllc.com/News.htm
Hopefully that link works "from the outside". You can't see the video
yet since that has not been posted to a public website.
-Fred Shecter NAR 20117

I recently purchased a Perfectflite Microtimer that I hoped to use in
several two stage rockets I am building. Unfortunately the LED is on
one side and the program button is on the other which prevents the
simple method of just gluing it to a board.

Hey, all... just wondering... has anyone out there ordered the CP
Technologies amateur rockets bookset, and if so, how long did it take
to arrive, and how do they ship?
Thanks in advance,

The USR motor hardware that I won in the "Save Rocketry Now" raffle
arrived on Saturday, while I was away at PlasterBlaster. Jerry, thanks
for your generous donation! I look forward to putting it to use.

Day off......
Just wasting time looking for "funny" stuff on the net...
Found this interesting site...
http://www.chinesejokes.net/

       A while back, I read here that someone had done a small model that
used the sun to counter weather-cocking of the airframe. Anyone remember
that? Does someone here have any details? A webpage that explained it? I
have a team of students that are participating in a national ...