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hey guys here are few pics of a poject me and Gerry Munden (they only importer of rocket stuff in NZ) have undertaken. This rocket when built will be the biggest ever built in New Zealand, its a 2 stage with both stages having 98mmt's its 22FT tall , does anyone have any tips for attaching...

Hi does anyone have any info on making Scale Nike smoke decals? like what sizes and the type of font, as there are a few people on here building Nike smokes (Polecat 1/3 scale Nike's!) but i haven't seen any info on decals and now i need some for my Nike thanks

hi i have a MRC Thermal Hawk Glider that i don't need so its for sale. it is a Pod launched one and Recommended motors are B4-2 and C6-3, its in good cond and hasn't been opened, i have attached a pic also. I'm not sure what its worth so PM me with an Offer. thanks Matt

Hi Guys has one here had any experience with the Skunk Works 5.5" Nike Smoke, i have purchased the kit but with custom centering rings one 54mm and 4 29mm outboards, it should be here next week. first flight is plan for a J250 hypertek and 2 G64s at 1 second using a perfectflite timer in a bay...

hi guys what options are there radio tracking units for rockets? i know of GPSflight and rocket hunter, i also know about watson, but i don't know pricing or anything like that about the watson unit. are there any other units out there for tracking rockets?? if anyone has a used unit they...

hi guys i got a 54mm/440cc system today, i was going over it and i noticed that the vent tube that goes from the top of the tank to the brass fitting, the silver colored thinner bit of tube can side up and down in the large brass tube is this ok?? i hope i make sense to you guys thanks matt

hi guys i am using a 3" electronics bay that i have made plywood adapters for so i can fly it in my 4" rocket but what do i do about vent holes?? i was thinking of putting a bit of tubing from the vent hole in the 3" bay to out the rocket? any other suggestions?? thanks

since everyone is now unveiling there new web sites the NZ Matt's have a new web site, yes there are 3 of us all 15 years old , all called matt, all into HPR and EX, lol isn't that weird the we site is https://www.nzex.tk , it should have the photos from todays launch on soon. let me know what...

i while ago i planed to build a 3" rocket that was dual deploy, i got Dpatell to make a rocksim file too, but i never got around to building it , but that was 6 months ago and now ive started it, i have attached the rock sim file, but i am now going to use a 38mm motor mount instead of a 54mm...

hey guys what filler do you recommend that is high strength?? i cant find cab-o-sil in NZ but what about silica sand?? or what else do you recommend?? thanks for your time matt

hey guys i thought i just warn you about tekwriterone, they are selling aardvark rocket kits but i brought 3 models back in early july and i haven't seen any of them yet and no email responses since i sent the money , and I'm not the only one look here there goes my $30 (hey it takes me a...

happy birthday guys i hope you both get lots of rocket goodies and have a great day :D matt

hey guys Me and the other Matt from NZ are building a launch tower something similar to giant leaps tower but bigger we are using 25mm box tubing(3mm wall) for the guide support, we have two choices on the mounting/blast plate we can either use 12.0 mm 5083 Aluminum alloy or 8mm 6061 Aluminum...

i received a package today and low and be hold its a VMX-12D from orbital engineering, well naturally i opened it up and checked all the parts were there..etc Wow there is a lot of balsa here all nicely die cut, this is basically a larger version of the VMX-2 it has the same design the only real...

hey guys check out your new store https://www.cafeshops.com/nzrockets i havent finished putting up all the products yet, no im not copying Sixx we planed to open this week. all profits go to R&D efforts at www.nzrockets.tk let me know what you think matt

hi guys sorry i dont have time right now to write a report so here is a link to some pic's https://www.aorangi-gardens.co.nz/nzrockets/images/Aug/index.html matt

i wanted to build some thing that had no fins but still went quite high so i built a funnel rock, its BT55 based i modeled it up in rocksim then used VCP to make a template the cone it 60mm in diameter at the end, it will fly on 18mm motors and i stable BTW i used a Pappadum box for the...

yay i have a wood lathe no more paying too much $$$ to someone else. it was $70 it can do pieces 1meter long and 400mm in diameter, i have attached a pic of the lathe and here is a link to a pic of my first(good) nose cone it fits 2" PML QT first cone good and the best thing is that i only...

i found this page with some cool desktop backrounds my fav is the UV image of the Sun https://www.unitednuclear.com/wallpaper.htm matt