Model Forum / General / Rockets / November 2005

There is a certain company who I shall not name that is selling a book
titled:
MIL-HDBK-762, DESIGN OF AERODYNAMICALLY STABILIZED FREE ROCKETS
some poor sucker is paying $49 for this in a rocketonline.com  auction..

My son just received his new PML Bull Puppy kit.We want to know if anyone
has made any mods to the stock kit. We were thinking of adding about
10inches for a playload/ebay compartment.
Thanks.

I just posted photos from construction of my 1.9X Spitfire in
alt.binaries.models.rockets.
Enjoy.
Gordon

Doing some modeling and getting good agreement between two different
programs with a Warlock on I & J power.  Extrapolating things a bit
with the same model but changing motors, the two programs start
diverging rapidly when I attempt to simulate K, L & M motor flights.

To all those defrauded by Jonesy (a/k/a Jeff Jones of Traverse City,
Michigan):
I have been contacted by the United States Postal Inspection Service,
which is now beginning a formal investigation.  Hooray for the good

From around the globe......
http://www.urinal.net/

I received today a letter and application form from the Ohio Department
of Commerce requesting $75 and a completed form since I have a LEUP and
onsite storage.  Has anyone else in Ohio gotten this letter?  When I
researched this about a year and a half ago I didn't find any state

Hi, I usually post at sci.space.history, but someone there requested
that I  repost these lists of free online NASA PDF format rocket
documents here at  rec.models.rockets
This is a list of free online NASA PDF publications related to rockets

I've been making some of my own rocket motors.  I have noticed different
recommendations for nozzle shape.  I have been using a 15 degree conical
exit cone.  I have seen articles that recommend ~ 18 degrees.  Some
recommend a bell shaped exit cone.  Which is the best to give me max

NASA has recently placed some new PDF documents about the
Apollo-Little Joe II launch vehicle on its NTRS website. Those
documents are listed below along with Little Joe II documents that
were released earlier.

I've had this Estes StratoBlaster kit laying around forever. I've lost
the assembly instructions amd now I want to build it. Does anybody know
of a copy of this online (I looked to no avail) or could make a copy for
me?

In an earlier postm, I made mention of the fact that back in the 40-50's
amateur rockets were also called model rockets and vice-versa, before model
rockets and model rocketry as we all know it was beginning. My comments were
ridiculed by various people.

Laptops need to have HAZMAT fees
WOW ! see this
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=12863

Gawd... I just love the folks at MIT...
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
<vbg>
Tod "Hi Fred!" Hilty

Doing a reading of the SNOAR Rocket Newsletter at:
http://tinyurl.com/dr4y4 I learned more about Jerry Irvine ... it was
every informative ... seems Mr. Irvine only understands the, 'language
of the fist'.