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Yesterday Mr_Rocketeer and i had a great nearly windless day launching in spite of losing his Nova Payloader in a tree. We got close to a dozen launches in in about four hours and we were both getting tired. Our second favorite school launch field was becoming more populated too. Two...

Last week my son, Rocketeer41, brought his Estes Executioner to his Cub Scout den meeting for the "Build a Model" achievement. Two of his den-mates came to me separately to tell me about their own model rockets. Both of them were certain that their rockets were powered by gasoline and that...

My two sons are in the Cub Scouts and this is Pinewood Derby Season. For those of you unfamiliar with the Pinewood Derby it is a gravity powered race of small cars hand crafted by the Cub Scout and dad from a small block of wood. Since this is a rocketry forum the only technical advice I...

I guess that makes it a Meaner Machine:dark:. I am well into the build of my Estes Mean Machine with a 29mm motor mount. I used the core from a roll of aluminum foil for the motor mount tube. It is a perfect fit. I used the stock centering rings just re-cut for a larger motor tube. Since...

We lost two great friends recently. Astrobones and our local launch field have been destroyed along with a portion of the space/time continuum. Astrobones launched for an unintended extended orbit aboard his Nova Payloader. It was really no worry, Astrobones was in near-Earth orbit with a...

My sons go to the local day camp. Last week my six year old's group had a session in "Engineering" in which the kids had to come up with an idea for the rest of the group to learn some principals of any engineering concept. My son's idea of rockets was chosen by the counselors. In addition to...

I came across this video and thought it is interesting enough to share here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi6Z6yFJ23U&feature=player_embedded I really like the recovery of this rocket and the locating beacon antenna.

I learned of model rockets at the age of seven. Rocketry was a hobby of mine until high school. I only recently got back into the hobby with my kids and I am quite pleased with the bigger rocket kits now available than were available in the 1980s. During the past couple of years my children...

When I first entered the amateur aerospace hobby thirty years ago my first launch controller was an orange Estes with only 15 feet between myself and the rocket. I never thought of any risks associated with such close proximity of a launching rocket and myself. This arrangement worked quite...

Aside from barbecues and swimming my family spent a few hours at the schools this morning launching our entire flying fleet. It was hot and became a little windy after the first four or five launches so we called it a day and headed for the lake. The ten launches we did get in were absolutely...

Along with the big rockets in my last order came a few Alphas. One of them is for my oldest son, I want him to build a rocket from start to finish without my assistance. Another is for myself. I am not using the 18mm motor mount since the body tube chambers a 24mm motor without any...

This is a sequel to this thread: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=7788 After my foray into mid powered rocketry ended in a spectacular learning experience I bought another G-Force to give it another shot. I learned a lot from my first build and flight/crash and I am investing...

This has been a particularly tough winter for me because I have been sick with pneumonia for almost three weeks. Today I was less symptomatic tan I have been in a while and the kids were getting restless. Despite the bitter cold I decided it was a good day to launch the rockets we built over...

Greetings all: In preparation for my first mid-power launch this weekend I assembled my first reloadable Aerotech motor, a G64-4W. I have read on these forums no end of horror stories about motor failures and quite honestly I would not have bought a single Aerotech motor product had I read...

No, this is not a thread about Tiger and Elin. My seven year old son recently learned about the Appalachian Trail in school. For those of you who don't know, The Appalachian Trail is a trail blazed through the woods which runs from Maine to Georgia and is managed by the National Park...

I applied the clearcoat to my rocket today with disastrous results. Background: This is the Aerotech G-Forge I am building. I applied the two coats of color two weeks ago. I was planning on using the decals so I waited five days after spraying the color to apply the decal which I ended up...

Things were so simple when I was a kid building Estes kits. I just followed my father's advice, "Duco Cement is the best stuff for building models." Looking back I think he was on to something, certainly for the small balsa/cardboard models. Duco even bonds excellently with plastics. Now...

I am planning my first BIG rocket. My Aerotech G-Force 4 should arrive sometime this week along with a Big Bertha, a Der Red Max and a pair of Alphas all for the kids. I am brand new to re-loadable motors but I have experience handling things that go, "boom." I am considering the Aerotech...

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is James. I got hooked on the model rocket habit at the age of seven when I would go to the high school athletic field with my parents on weekends. There was always somebody flying rockets. My first model was an Estes Pershing 1A which my father...