soxfan121
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Hey guys, I've been here for nearly two months and I completely forgot to write "the customary introduction" so here it goes!
My name is Ed and I'm 17. I live in Chicago Illinois and i really dislike it, there's very few places to launch large rockets without traveling an hour or more. It's also illegal to launch any rockets at the park 500 feet from my house because I live a couple of blocks from a large international airport (Midway), I would love to move to somewhere that a lot of you guys are, such as Texas or Arizona.
I've been building rockets for nearly four years, i got started when i joined the rocket club at my highschool as a freshman,which I am now captain of. I almost instantly fell in love with rockets. My first ever rocket build was a scratch built rocket with a 29mm F20W-7 motor, it was a TARC (team america rocketry challenge) build, i came very close to making it pass qualification but the egg had a hairline fracture and therefore didn't count, i made the perfect height and time requirements though. I've since then made many successful rockets using every type of motor from a 1/2 A all the way up to a G77R with an electronic ejection charge (using an EFC-1: https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/c...tions/EFC_Instructions/efc-1_instructions.pdf ) My current builds include my 2013 TARC rocket and my x3 Estes E-9 motor cluster with an on- board camera.
So, there's my long, overly detailed introduction to...me. Thank's for all of the help you guys have given me so far and the help i'm sure you will give in the future!
My name is Ed and I'm 17. I live in Chicago Illinois and i really dislike it, there's very few places to launch large rockets without traveling an hour or more. It's also illegal to launch any rockets at the park 500 feet from my house because I live a couple of blocks from a large international airport (Midway), I would love to move to somewhere that a lot of you guys are, such as Texas or Arizona.
I've been building rockets for nearly four years, i got started when i joined the rocket club at my highschool as a freshman,which I am now captain of. I almost instantly fell in love with rockets. My first ever rocket build was a scratch built rocket with a 29mm F20W-7 motor, it was a TARC (team america rocketry challenge) build, i came very close to making it pass qualification but the egg had a hairline fracture and therefore didn't count, i made the perfect height and time requirements though. I've since then made many successful rockets using every type of motor from a 1/2 A all the way up to a G77R with an electronic ejection charge (using an EFC-1: https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/c...tions/EFC_Instructions/efc-1_instructions.pdf ) My current builds include my 2013 TARC rocket and my x3 Estes E-9 motor cluster with an on- board camera.
So, there's my long, overly detailed introduction to...me. Thank's for all of the help you guys have given me so far and the help i'm sure you will give in the future!