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- Code of the Life Maker, a great book with a fantastic prologue about a group of machines that evolved into a civilization of living self aware machines.

- Thrice Upon a...

I'm not holding much hope on this, but I'd LOVE to see the new Star Wars movies that JJ is directing follow the story line of The Thrawn Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn. Grand Admiral Thrawn is SUCH...

Thanks for correcting me, after someone else had already pointed it out, and then I came back and explained that I understood the mistake (typo) I'd made.

Mushtang,

You are confusing pressure and force. The force on the 1/8" opening is lower but the pressure is still 1000 psi. There smaller the area, the smaller the force for a given pressure. ...

Because the injector openings are so small, they don't see enough pressure to keep a hefty pump from pushing the liquid out. The pressure inside the combustion chamber presses against all surfaces...

Maybe neond7 can let you know what they're used for?

Awesome job! So what does a fellow TRF member have to do to arrange for a special tour of the good stuff?

The last week in June I'm going on a business trip to Orlando for 3 days which ends Friday afternoon. I'm staying an extra night, driving to Cape Canaveral early the next morning, and spending the...

Cool! I looked on your site before posting, but obviously wasn't looking in the right place and missed it.

Ooh, that hurts to watch and I wasn't even involved. I can't imagine what you felt. But I was happy to see the last message at the end of the video!! I've been VERY impressed with all these builds...

Jim, what's the status of the M.A.C.M.E. kit?

After a dozen flights on mine I went back and installed a home made baffle. I'd never made a baffle before and wanted to see how well they worked and it works great! It sure is nice not having to...

Here's some images from my SketchUp design.

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You mean instead of them all going in the 12' direction? The 12' joists under the deck are attached to the house at one end, and cantilevered over a beam 10' away. Since all the joists are...

Correct. I'm not doing diagonal, I just wanted to avoid two pieces end to end if I could avoid it. When deck boards warp and the ends curl up in the middle of a deck it looks really bad.

If...

I've decided to replace the existing 10'x10' deck that came on my house with a more useful 12'x24' deck. I've drawn it up with SketchUp and am very happy with my design - there will be a lot of...

I wish I'd had a proper high speed camera when I made my Apollo 11 launch video of my Zooch Saturn V. I only had a 30 fps camera that I could only slow down slightly before it would be too jumpy.
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Best. Show. Ever.

Well I haven't seen any photos posted on this thread yet, and since you mentioned it...here ya go.[/QUOTE]
That's an awesome launch tower!! What scale is that Saturn V? At first I thought it...

Not yet. I don't have access to a field large enough to fly this one unless I go to a club launch, and even then they don't use a large field every time. I'm planning on launching mine for the...

I always fill the spirals on body tubes. I draw the line at filling the spirals on the inside of the launch lugs.

How do I measure myself against other builders? By height.

It was the equipment, not the people. And to be clear I wasn't upset by the failure to launch, just frustrated for a few minutes. The rest of the day was great and I got to launch a bunch of other...

I've sprayed paint onto decals instead of sealer, forcing me to repaint them.
I brought a rocket to the launch pad for it's first flight, only to realize I never installed the launch lugs.
I...

On Saturday's launch I found an old Baby Bertha in the woods that had obviously been lost in the trees many moons ago during a club launch and had fallen down. It was unusable to me (the nosecone...

You are quite correct!!!


Not a clue. They went from the pad to so high I couldn't see them anymore nearly instantly. I saw the ejection puffs but couldn't even begin to estimate how high that...

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Today was the day! I brought all 10 rockets to the club launch and we set them up in a row of 10 launch pads. All of these tiny rockets were set up with C6-3 engines.

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The launch master...

I built one rocket with the materials I had and tested it, and it disappeared from my backyard as expected, never to be seen again.

Over the past few days I built 9 more. With the original I have...

What would he say about someone else spending their time and money building TWO large scale models of the top of a Mercury rocket to launch the capsule escape tower?