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ScrapDaddy said:
Yes I am accdemicly gifted I am 2 years ahead in mathamatics and I am in the high honors roll 95+ my faverite shows are mythbusters, air emergency and dogfights (not litterally just the war term) in some areas I am a compleate idiot, hence why my friends call me the oxymoron... In rocketry I can honestly
say I have learned everything I know from TRF and apogee's website... Therefore i hereby pronouse myself a rocketry oxymoron (mostly the moron part)
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same here with math, word of advice, AP calc will kill u if you do not study.

Well, TRF is alot better than apogees site IMO.

Ben
 
ScrapDaddy said:
The archive Is a huge bank of rocketry knowlage
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Rocketry publications are nice to have also. Some have "gone under", a good one that is left is the NAR's Sport Rocketry. For $25.00 a year you can become a member of the NAR and recieve 6 issues a year of Sport Rocketry, and all of the other benefits membership provides. Very good deal!!

The member guidebook you recieve when joining has lots of basic information in it. With the magazines, not only will you be kept up to date on what's new, eventually you will have a very nice reference library built up.
 
Get involved with a club, you will never regret it. I'm a lot like you, and the best advice I can give is join a club- a group of great people, just like TRF, but you don't need a computer to talk to them.
 
Yeah, I have been meaning to do so for over a month now but things have come up, maybe somtimes this summer
 
Neutron95 said:
Get involved with a club, you will never regret it. I'm a lot like you, and the best advice I can give is join a club- a group of great people, just like TRF, but you don't need a computer to talk to them.
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The closest club to ScrapDaddy that launches high power is CRMRC in Vermont. Their launch site is about 120 miles from him (almost directly north). The closest rocket club of any type to him is ASTRE. Their launch field (which can handle only LPR and MPR launches) is about 60 miles from him. (I live about 120 miles north and slightly east of it, but I have a car.)

I also live about 120 road miles from CRMRC's launch site as well, but in a different direction (west and slightly south). ScrapDaddy lives about 95 miles away from me, in yet a third direction (south and slightly east).

ScrapDaddy and I live in an area of NY State that measures roughly 180 miles by 170 miles. Within that region there are 3 known hobby rocket enthusiasts. (Me, him and one other guy.) Rocketeer #3 lives 30 miles from me (to the east); I have never met or even talked to him. ScrapDaddy lives about 90 miles south of him. None of the three of us have ever met. I only know ScrapDaddy from this forum. Of the three, I am the only NAR member. Rocketeer #3 may or may not be a member of TRA; I'm not sure.

In the approximately 22,000 square mile region (I'm not counting the section that is in Lake Ontario), the three of us comprise the entire known hobby rocketry community. Our region is both the largest and the least populated part of the state. It is actually one of the least populated regions in the eastern US. The hobby of sport rocketry is clearly not too popular around here; me and ScrapDaddy are trying to fly upwind against the soccer/hockey jet stream that so completely dominates the area. While participation in a club is possible, there are some logistical difficulties involved.

Mark K.
 
Wow! I knew there were only a few of us but I never thought there were that few, all of my friends are sports jocks, I just happened to have a strong intrest into things that fly. I knew a couple people who were I treated but gave that up for sports currently I am trying to get my 2 best friends to join the hobby, but so far with little success
 
And didn't you say the club was going to aquire a launch field in glens falls? It would only be a 5 minute drive :D
 
If there are any other folks launching rockets up here, they are doing a swell job of hiding it.

Mark K.
 
ScrapDaddy said:
And didn't you say the club was going to aquire a launch field in glens falls? It would only be a 5 minute drive :D
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I didn't say that. ASTRE has been looking all over the region for a new launch field, not just in one area.

Mark K.
 
Some State & local laws dictate whether you can buy them or not & at what the age limits are. It's best to seek out a local vendor, if possible.

Some years ago... When I was first getting into the hobby, NJ required a permit just to buy D motors.


JD


ScrapDaddy said:
I don't acctually want to do anything with the cert.... On second thought flying "f" doesn't seem to bad and don't you have to be 18 to buy a g engine?
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I just found out that U.S rockets makes a 18mm G30 motor! And a E10 and F20! Lots more composites than I thought!
 
MarkII said:
The closest club to ScrapDaddy that launches high power is CRMRC in Vermont. Their launch site is about 120 miles from him (almost directly north). The closest rocket club of any type to him is ASTRE. Their launch field (which can handle only LPR and MPR launches) is about 60 miles from him. (I live about 120 miles north and slightly east of it, but I have a car.)

I also live about 120 road miles from CRMRC's launch site as well, but in a different direction (west and slightly south). ScrapDaddy lives about 95 miles away from me, in yet a third direction (south and slightly east).

ScrapDaddy and I live in an area of NY State that measures roughly 180 miles by 170 miles. Within that region there are 3 known hobby rocket enthusiasts. (Me, him and one other guy.) Rocketeer #3 lives 30 miles from me (to the east); I have never met or even talked to him. ScrapDaddy lives about 90 miles south of him. None of the three of us have ever met. I only know ScrapDaddy from this forum. Of the three, I am the only NAR member. Rocketeer #3 may or may not be a member of TRA; I'm not sure.

In the approximately 22,000 square mile region (I'm not counting the section that is in Lake Ontario), the three of us comprise the entire known hobby rocketry community. Our region is both the largest and the least populated part of the state. It is actually one of the least populated regions in the eastern US. The hobby of sport rocketry is clearly not too popular around here; me and ScrapDaddy are trying to fly upwind against the soccer/hockey jet stream that so completely dominates the area. While participation in a club is possible, there are some logistical difficulties involved.

Mark K.
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Start a club of your own! :) If it's not populous, then there should be lots of places that might let you launch from, right? :)
 
MattieShoes said:
Start a club of your own! :) If it's not populous, then there should be lots of places that might let you launch from, right? :)
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If he gets TRA to allow him to start a club and they turned me down, I would be asking some questions. :eyepop:

Ben
 
ben_ullman said:
Thats a loaded statement! Wouldnt be so sure of that ;)

Ben
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Yeah after I posted it and thought about it your right on that but then again it might not be that far fetched I mean there's no way TRA will ever certify those motors I can say the same for NAR or CAR but we'll see what the future holds for US Rockets.All I know is they have a couple kits listed on that site that I would love to have even though they are a bit high on price.
And I in no way am talking bad about the owner of said company there's just alot of history there that I won't touch on, search engines are your friend, but I am sure most here know the deal anyway.
 
Pantherjon said:
Not certified and no longer in production...
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Many of the US Rockets Motors were never more than a line in a catalog page. Setting aside all the acrimony, Jerry did make a limited number of motors and some were kind of cool. But looking at a US Rockets catalog as reference will only convince you that Jerry invented electricity, running water, daylight, and every concept related to rocketry.
 
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MarkII said:
The closest club to ScrapDaddy that launches high power is CRMRC in Vermont. Their launch site is about 120 miles from him (almost directly north). The closest rocket club of any type to him is ASTRE. Their launch field (which can handle only LPR and MPR launches) is about 60 miles from him. (I live about 120 miles north and slightly east of it, but I have a car.)
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120 miles? That's not too bad. I live 100 miles from the nearest HPR club, and 120 or so from a couple others.
 
cjl said:
120 miles? That's not too bad. I live 100 miles from the nearest HPR club, and 120 or so from a couple others.
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Im about the same way. There is a "seasonal" HPR club that flies only in the winter like 45min away but I drive 2.5 hours to MDRA for any real HPR flying year round.

Its all on how much you get into it. You WILL make that drive if you fly HPR, or you wont fly. Its that simple :p

Ben
 
MattieShoes said:
Start a club of your own! :) If it's not populous, then there should be lots of places that might let you launch from, right? :)
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Not enough folks here who are interested in rocketry to form a club. NAR requires that Sections have at least five members, and we would have a real tough time meeting that minimum in this region. Also, "lightly populated" doesn't always equate to wide open spaces. This is not Iowa or Nebraska (or even Florida). The topography here is mountainous and densely forested. My whole point, though, is that it is a non-trivial challenge for our young friend to join a club that holds HP launches due to the distances involved, unless his family or a teacher gets involved and helps him out.

Mark K.
 
cjl said:
120 miles? That's not too bad. I live 100 miles from the nearest HPR club, and 120 or so from a couple others.
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Sure, it's accessible for me; I'm an adult with a car. For a 12 year old, not so easy. And that's the whole issue - where would ScrapDaddy even go to get his Jr. Level 1 once he was old enough and experienced enough? It will be several years before he is able to drive to northern Vermont on his own.

Mark K.
 
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ben_ullman said:
Thats a loaded statement! Wouldnt be so sure of that ;)

Ben
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For once (and only this once) I agree with Ben U.S. Rockets, has these motors in stock, they are just waiting for certification.... Anyway what is all this talk about with Tripoli not ever ceritfying these again?
 
ScrapDaddy said:
For once (and only this once) I agree with Ben U.S. Rockets, has these motors in stock, they are just waiting for certification.... Anyway what is all this talk about with Tripoli not ever ceritfying these again?
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You sure they are in stock? Have you called and talked to Jerry Irvine? I am pretty sure the answer to both would be 'no'..Let's just say that TRA and USR are not on the same sheet of music and let it rest..You can find a lot of information on that subject elsewhere, but, please don't bring what you find over here...
 
ScrapDaddy said:
I could take a train :) or my parents could...get me there somehow
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I don't think that the train will get you to where you need to go. You would still need to get back and forth from the station to the launch field anyway. It would be kind of expensive, too. Your parents are the most viable option.

Mark K.
 

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