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Not to hijack this thread; but what color, brand and type of paint did you use for the “Blue”?

The real downside of this is that ten or twenty years from now all those ex-engineers will be gone from the workforce and there will be few if any to take their place, at least in/from the United...

What I find most amazing about this is that there was no fairing being used.

I’ve gone down long, straight and very steep grades on my bicycle in a full tuck position. Chin on handle bars, hands...

Earhart was not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic she was the second person to successfully fly across the Atlantic solo, the first since Lindburg back in ’27.

Are you referring to the thin-walled clear tubing such as that supplied with various Estes rockets?
Or something thicker?

If you are trying to cut the thin stuff what I do is run a piece of heavy...

These 98mm minimum diameter rockets reminds me of the olden days when Honda built these incredible engines for their racing bikes. . .And then attempted to wrap a stable/ride-able motorcycle around...

Wait untill you get the C6-7 swapped with the C6-0.

Ohh!! Ahhh!!

Just rememer the old saying; Guns don’t kill people; Dads with pretty daughters kill people.

And if controlling the weather isn’t enough to keep us at home; they’ll drive up the cost of gasoline until we can’t afford to drive to the launches. Seventy cents a gallon increase in just two...

Back when we were still chasing Mastodons off our launch fields I had developed a method of using thinned Elmer’s White glue as a means of sealing and hardening balsa. I had it down to the point my...

So I would in effect have to mask-off the entirety of my apartment?
Possibly extending the masking to include my car; and how exactly do I mask-off myself and still be able to move?

Kinetic Energy = 1/2mass x velocity squared.
It’s that “V squared” that gets you every time.

Kids in school today look back at the Moon Landings as something that happened in their GRANDPARESTS day.

As for Skylab being saved; saved for what? By the time it hit atmosphere it was; by all...

I’ve bicycle toured the “Lost Coast” and enjoyed it immensely; have you ever ventured into the town of “Petrolia” which as I understand it has an off the grid economy with their own “Currency” the...

Well the only other crowd I could ask is on a Model Railroad forum and if you think the Model Rocket Forumites are lacking in sanity check out the MR bunch for comparison and you’ll learn that all...

Is there a “State of Sanity” somewhere?

Holding tight tolerances on a cardboard tube probably isn’t that easy and it is the inner diameter that is the more critical of the two from the manufactures’ viewpoint. Then there is the whole...

Just remember the old adage; there are no stupid questions, only stupid people asking. . .No, that’s not right.

Moving right along. I, like many others, use Elmer’s wood filler as a sealer and...

Imagine having to rely on your technology just to breath. One little glitch and you’re a dead.

Sure, we rely on tech to keep us alive in many situations like flying and nothing ever goes wrong...

I’m pretty certain that those of us who are middle aged will see this hobby vanish as a result of ever increasing laws and restrictions. Read stupidity.

As for zero tolerance policies; way back...

Yes a Space Elevator does need to be located on the equator; part of my intent by putting it in Montana was to demonstrate that not only were the developers of this plan WAY ahead of themselves but...

Most people wouldn’t believe it if you told them but for nearly a century in this nation, one in four non-farm workers were directly employed by one or another railroad. That’s 25% of the...

Meanwhile in Montana; the foundation is laid for the first “Space Elevator”.

I don’t know what it is like where you are but here in Western Oklahoma we’ve had FIVE freezes since the beginning of APRIL!!
That’s one every week. Everybody’s garden and flowers are lost, even the...

Argonia?
Pawhuska?

Where do you intend to launch this rocket? I wasn’t aware that the Tulsa site had an altitude wavier necessary for such a flight.
As a resident of Western Oklahoma I might be tempted to make the...

Yes; but how do you pronounce Sl*#gu&@^wv%@@!

I can remember as a kid visiting relatives in Washington state when wild asparagus grew as ditch-weed along all the back country roads.
By the early ‘70s, Agribusiness had pretty much cleaned it all...

Actually it’s a TFNCWFF; Twelve Fins and a Nose Cone With Four Fins.

Rube Goldberg, eat your heart out.
Looking at the Rheintocter; you can easily see the future of Soviet era rockets.