1st Water Rocket Flights

August 11, 2011

Just a quick post of the video. Will add details later. To be safer, I’ll need to get an extension hose before I try again. 1st flight – 60 psi, 185′ (dinged my car). The 2nd and third flights were 80 psi and got to around 230′.

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Water Rocket

August 9, 2011

I finished building my first water rocket. I’ll post more details soon. If the weather holds up I might get to fly it tomorrow. I’m having trouble coming up with a name. The water bottle was labeled “Metro Electro”.

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Aerodynamics of Angry Birds

August 6, 2011

I want to make a Yellow Angry Bird rocket, and not sure the best way to approach it. The shape needs to be a cross between a cone and a three sided pyramid. I think as a starting prototype I should try frankensteining the paper craft design (below) and an Art Applewhite paper cone rocket.

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Water Rocket Launcher

August 6, 2011

I just put together a water rocket launcher kit I ordered from Amazon (they are on eBay too). It looks like everything could be purchased from Lowes, except maybe the schrader valve. I’m not sure yet where to get those or how to mount them in the PVC end cap. There is a bulge in [...]

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Orbital Crayon Transport?

July 24, 2011

The smaller one will need to be shortened a little but I think it will work. I’m working on a Semroc OT now. I found a bunch of these small crayon banks at Dollar Tree. I found the large one at Goodwill.

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MicroMaxx Nike Hercules?

July 16, 2011

I happened to see this page on Rocket Reviews. It’s an article by Carl Tulanko on building MicroMaxx launch pads. At the bottom is a pic of Carl’s tiny Nike Hercules. The below image’s source is RocketReviews. I did some quick searching on Google and some forums, but only found a few references to it. [...]

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Old Estes Rocket Catalogs

July 15, 2011

Yesterday, 321 Rockets re-tweeted a tweet containing a link to all the old (and current) Estes rocket catalogs. . The catalogs for 1984 and 1985 brought back a lot of memories. This is the cover of the 1985 catalog where they introduced the SR-71 Blackbird kit. I want one of re-release kits but missed the [...]

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