Model Forum / General / Rockets / January 2006

BigRedBee is please to announce the availability of the BeeLine GPS
Transmitter!
Priced at less than $260, weighing less than 2 ounces and fitting inside a
38mm body tube, tracking your rocket has never been easier or more

I'm trying to do an early history of model rocket igniters from circa 57 to
say 71 ( I may extend this later).
I got into the hobby in 1967 and the igniters I remember using were nichrome
wire that had a blue or black pyrogen in the middle. You bent it in a U

       Any AHPRA guys on here? I need the dates for Balls 15 quick. Sent
Mark an e-mail, but haven't heard back from him. Need to sign up for my
vacation this week, and don't have the dates!
       HELP!

I seem to remember a NAR/TRA posting that we were going bck to court on
1/10/05.
Anyone heard anything as of yet?
Dave K.

The cover of Sport Rocketry got me wanting a Sat1B all over again.  Did
anyone hear what happened to the rumored Estes 1/70 Sat1B?  I'm thinking
that it turned out to be vaporware.  Can anyone confirm?
I have an unfinished 1/100 SatV.  How hard would it be to bash it to a

[WHY IS NEIL ARMSTRONG SHY]
Historian Douglas Brinkley calls him "our nation's most bashful
Galahad."
Author James Hansen has opened the door to Armstrong's life a little

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Let me explain why BSD High Power Rocketry has been Missing-In-Action.
We experienced a family crisis early this year that no parent should have to
endure. Recovery took a toll on us to the point my wife was hospitalized and
I became depressed. We are physically, emotionally, and ...

Today we had a disappointing attempt at launching my sons Big Bertha on
its maiden voyage.  As I was slipping the engine in the centering ring
gave way and the tube was free to move within the main rocket tube.
I think I may have forgotten to reinforce that bottom ring with extra

Do you want to compensate something with it?
A small dick maybe? You know, rockets are phallic symbols...

Is there a recommended size for the port (core) in a moonburner?  What
ration of port diameter to propellant diameter would give the most neutral
burn?  (I am using the term moonburner to indicate a single offset port
grain with the edge of the port touching the edge of the ...

A year ago I had a link to someone who made 7 foot Saturn V. Then there
was the great crash of '05 and I no longer have the links. Does anyone
here know the site?
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

    Those old timer will remember the Centuri  Little Joe 2 that had a
really impressive look to it, certainly Estes could not do such a kit
today. But I wondered has anyone done a 4" dia resiin cast of  the
command module and are they available? Would save me weeks of  making a

It's been a bit since I've dropped a post around here, so I thought I
would end the year with a "bang".  A DHS bulletin that crossed my desk
recently had something on it that those working the political side of
rocketry might be interested in.  It is unclass/FOUO, so I can only

I never really lost interest and I am anxious to fly again.
I want to fly my small Estes rockets, any local clubs around? I an in
Northern Jersey.
Anthony