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i thought insulting people was against the rules at TRF?

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Back in 2002, as our family vacation loomed near, I placed an order for
some NARTS publications to provided some relief from the “packaged”
distractions found in the big Florida theme parks. Among the assorted
reports and technical papers, there was one that seriously caught my

Is the paint scheme for the single stage Doorknob in 1/4 or 1/2 diameter
panels?  Is one side of the nose black?  I'm building from the "Scale Bash"
plans but they don't look complete.  Anyone have any info on this rocket to
share?

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia USA — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was back in court this past week to
publicly admit blundering with the filing of a "Defendant's Notice of
Errata," an addendum to the ATF's "Reply in Support of Renewed Motion

As posted here in RMR recently, I have been working with the Town of Fair
Haven, Vermont (population about 2,900) in an attempt to develop the
Municipal Airport as a launch site. It seemed a pretty good spot for this
neck of the woods - a dirt runway surrounded by mown fields, ...

http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/ocl/cases/Cases/Purrington/Firefox_injunction_opinion.pdf
Notice the 1lb of Oxidizer per year per person? Notice that AP is NOT
included on the list.
what do you think the effect of this ruling will be to AR. If Firefox can

Hey folks - We gonna be de-milling thousands of hand fired signal
rockets and will have available tons of these very tough cloth
parachutes. The smaller ones are  7" square and the big ones are about
12". All have very strong cloth shroud lines and would make fer a nice

Has anyone had occasion to use PPG's Deltron 2000 paint system?
I stopped into an auto parts store looking for a metalflake paint, and ended
up with a custom mixed color that rocks. The prep and primer requirements
are very specific, as well as the spray and clearcoat requirements. ...

I went into my LHS today to get some sanding sealer (for model rockets)
and CA (for a resin model).  The butaryte dope rack that (used to) hold
sanding sealer, dozens of bottles, was down to about 6 bottles, with
only one being sanding sealer.  I asked the fellow behind the ...

Friends, I have a puzzle for you.
What spacecraft is over my head in this picture?
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/beamjockey/350870509/>
In September, I visited a terrific place, the American Museum of the Moving

Astronaut Wally Schirra died Wednesday night, leaving John Glenn and Scott
Carpenter as the two remaining Project Mercury astronauts.

Just a note that if anyone would like to watch the Arianespace 5 launch,
there is webcast on Rocketry Planet.  The launch is at 6:29PM EDT.
Link is on the homepage.

One of Rocketry Planet's users posted something in the auctions that I
thought others might be interested in: a Propulsion Polymers PentaMax J
and K hybrid motor set and two fuel grains, all brand new.  This is a
54mm motor, the two casings are for J and K impulse range.  Opening ...

Check out this article, especially the 7th. paragraph:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/05/02/derailment.shuttle/index.html
BATFE (or whatever)  is gonna have a fit about this.