Model Forum / General / Rockets / July 2006

Finally got my finger out of my arse and updated the LARF website.
There are a few pictures from yesterdays lobster larf weather wasn't great
but some cool flights and nice to catch up with everybody again
Damian

My wife and I are introducing the members of our local Mustang club to
our "non-Mustang" hobby.  We're going to bring a couple of rockets to
the next meeting to show along with a short  video I made.  I'm also
preparing some handouts with information about rocketry including local

I just bought my first rocket from Deepsky Rockets and also got the
recovery upgrade kit but im not sure how to fix it on how do i attach
the kevlar cord to the rocket and the nomex ejection shield and what do
i do with the swivel link?

http://www.atf.gov/press/fy06press/field/070606kc_methconsp.htm
"When officers opened the vehicle's trunk, a hobby-style rocket that was
controlled by an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys lifted from a
prone to an upright position in the trunk. The rocket, which was about 3

The guys from ROCKETS magazine are on their way back from LDRS 25. They've
got a good pile of photos from all 6 days - check out:
http://www.libertylaunchsystems.com/Gallery/LDRS2006/Day1/

I just got my June Model Rocketeer with the NAR Trustee and bylaw ballot.
I really wish Art had included a resume: I realize he wants people to go to
his web site, but he should have at least included a statement to that
effect. This makes it look like he just didn't bother to write ...

The Collected Buffoonery of Daniel Joseph Min - Usenet's most failed prophet.
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AeroTech Information Release
7/7/06
AeroTech Unveils New Products at LDRS-25
AeroTech introduced several new products at LDRS-25 in Amarillo, Texas on

For those of you that could not attend LDRS25 you missed a good one.  Nice
weather, great flights, lots of motors available, and excellent event
management.  A huge thanks to all the POTROCS crew and all of the volunteers
from around the country that made it happen.  Your hard ...

I've posted on other places and we know why it happened, but many might like to see it happen.
The Paper LOC Booster Bruiser with 3/16" G-10 fins was built to be subsonic, and here is what happens when it goes super sonic on the awesome Pro98 N1100 moon burner motor.
Http ...

The Medford association of rocket science will be having a model rocket
launch at Wazee campgrounds Sunday july 9th, noon till ?????
Anyone needing directions or more info send me an email taters1@charter.net.
Here is some misc info

 I've posed these questions to the one fellow in our club who works for
the FAA but the more I thought about it the more I thought I'd cast it
out to a wider audience. That and since work's been, for once, keeping
me very busy and I've not been here of late, this seemed ...

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OK, I know this is WAY off topic, but I also know that there are a bunch of
okd DEC fans like myself here. I just found this KIT real working PDP8 and
ordered one for myself. This was the first computer I ever got my hands on
my freshman year of college. There are a few left of this ...

I was thinking, as folks have graduated away from the Estes starter
stuff and into things that fly farther (and therefore potentially
further downrange) that the need to know where the thing has come down
becomes pretty important.