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Greetings, I discovered that Aerospace Specialty Products (ASP) had 3 of Peter Alway's books that I lacked in my own collection, and after conferring all were in stock, sent out an order and my payment via Money Order. All 3 books - Spiral bound versions of "In the Shadow of the V-2" and...

Greetings, I used Aerogloss Dope and Sanding Sealer for years on all my rockets, but since they are no more, I've been looking for an appropriate substitute. Found Brodak manufacturing and was wondering if their sanding sealer would be similar...

Well fellow TRFers, nutcases, and scale aficionados, its time for another round of what's on Silverleaf's mind. Some of you may be thinking "Oh no, not again", whilst others may be going, "whats the fruitcake posting now", while the minority (read zero) of you might be interested to see what my...

Greetings, One of the most important things we tend to forget in our hobby is that like anything else, building techniques can become rusty if not constantly used, and nowhere else is this more important than when tackling winter projects. Simply put, for many of us living in Northern states...

My fellow friends and Family of Rocketeers, As a few of you know from the TRF Chat, my Grandfather has been fighting some stays in the hospital - first a dehydration/gastritis runin in September, and recently - 2 weeks ago - I came down to find him comatose and needed to call 911. After...

Greetings, Not sure if this is the right place, but I figured most of the vendors check this section often. I realize that Rebar Rocketry is down for a while with the current Hurricane after effects (and I'm hopeful he makes a full recovery), and that he is one of the 2 U.S. distributors -...

IF you've tried DeltaCad - which is what I use for all my design work - although its just 2D, and your looking to step up to 3D, I'd suggest looking at Alibre Design Xpress..found at: https://www.alibre.com/xpress/ Its a free download, though you need to register (which is also free) to...

Let me set the scene: Around 5 today, I took the Soyuz capsule and booster tubes out to spray with Deft Laquer Sanding Sealer and the Soyuz upper stage to paint the upper BT60 Olive Green. Got them all sprayed and left the porch door open because the laquer can make a grown man's sinuses...

After a conversation the other night in TRF Chat, I wanted to see if i could create a flying model of Wile's ACME rocket, complete with him hanging on, and at apogee, he'd come back on a streamer while the rocket returned via chute. I had to make 1 adjustment to length, given it needed to be...

Greetings Ray, I recently tried emailing and pming you in regards to finding out if you might have any of your mini-booster hardware available, given I have a few scale projects that "might" use such a setup. I hadn't heard back from you, but then saw your thread on PM problems here at...

Mr. Bundick, In the most recent issue of The Model Rocketeer Newsletter, Volume 47 Number 3, your editorial entitled Unhappy Landings relayed the recent events of incidents involving model rockets that caused range fires, flew through the side of an occupied home, and the rocket that had...

After months of debating, and wondering IF I should join, I finally sent the Money Order out today. My main reason for joining was so I might possibly enjoy the upcoming NARAM meet in late July a bit more, and perhaps start working on the club part of the program locally. In any case, I...

I've a couple questions about NARAM, and was hoping that some of the veterans to these events might know the answers. Yes, its 3 months away, but... First off, I'm not a member of the NAR and since NARAM is"only" about 4 hours South of me, this "may" be the very first NARAM I'll remember...

Greetings, I've updated the Little Joe II Launch Complex to more closely match the real world counterpart. Some of the new scratchbuilt features include: 1) Rebuilt and reorganized the rail road tracks to match the real world image. 2) Added ground effects to match the colors of sand...

This current auction at Ebay has me remembering the day I bought this kit, and though it was the 2nd kit I ever owned (MPC FlatCat being first), it was the first to fly. Launched it on April 9, and there were no clouds, just gorgeous blue skies. When she lifted off, my heart literally...

Greetings, In order to fulfill my agreement to write a review of a kit that I won as a a result of finishing second in the recent EMRR "On Display" photo contest, this thread will detail my work on the Saturn Press Astrobee 1500 aquired from JonRocket.com. Please follow the link to my...

Greetings, Having won 2nd place in EMRR's recent "On Display" photo contest, I chose a $20.00 gift certificate from Jon Rockets because he had both Fliskits and Saturn Press kits. After initially contacting him about various Saturn Press kits, he told me he'd be getting more in very soon...

Greetings, I'm about to begin serious work on the 1/6.5 scale Aerobee 150, but considering the fins are airfoil shaped, I decided to check out some software packages and finally found one that can do the exact work I've been wanting. Essentially, the largest problem with an airfoil, is...

I'm putting this in the Advanced section, simply because I thought the software might be beyond the Support and Recovery section guidelines. I'm considering buying AeroCFD, but before I do, I was wondering if anyone whom has used it could explain if its fairly easy to use, and are the results...

Greetings, In reading and researching a couple new designs, I came across an interesting item that was used on the Astrobee F. Its called a Angle Of Attack Tranducer, which sits on the tip of the Astrobee F during flight. In the past, I've seen references to similar items, in one case for...