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I just hopped on Amazon to see about adding to my arsenal of onboard cameras and darn near fainted. I have two 808 Keychain cameras already; one is the #18 variant with the 120 degree wide angle lens, and the other is a cheap knockoff with no variant number and much lower quality picture and...

First off, I haven't yet dabbled in true dual deployment as yet, but I do know my way around an Eggtimer Quark (I'm working on a home-built chute release with one). That being said, I do understand the basic principles of why one would want dual deployment and how it is commonly implemented...

Okay, this one is really out there and consumption of alcohol may or may not have contributed to this train of thought, but I had a weird idea last night. First off, I have never really worked with hardened fiberglass or carbon fiber for anything, let alone rockets, but I understand the basic...

I know it's been done before and will undoubtedly be done again, but I have taken to the notion to build a rocket from the cardboard tubes that bottles of scotch come in; I call it "A Wee Dram". In my case, my preferred brand is Speyburn, a 10 year old single malt. Of course, I like to go a bit...

I recently came to possess a large quantity of regular 550lb rated 4mm nylon paracord. Up until now, I have only ever used rubber and fabric elastic bands or kevlar for shock cords as I have only flown low and mid power. Providing I sufficiently protect the bottom end of the paracord from...

I've done detachable external boosters before, but those were detached via ejection charge of the booster motors. Now I want to try something a bit different: I want to have boosters detach a couple seconds before their ejection charges fire for a nice, clean separation where the boosters will...

Keep It Simple, Stupid. That's what they tell me, but I take a certain pleasure in complicated challenges. Back in April last year, I had the crazy idea to jump on the bandwagon and buy one of the Apollo 11 commemorative Saturn V kits and modify it fly on a cluster of five D12 motors. It took...

I came across this action camera at Walmart and I while it's clearly no GoPro, it wouldn't be so bad if it were damaged or lost. I'm thinking of getting one to incorporate into a BT60 tube lengthwise facing out horizontally or possibly to put into a large clear payload tube like on the Rising...

Anyone else in the west-central Florida area attending this one? I've been flying on and off with this club for a little while now and this will be the first Buccaneer Blast I've attended.

During the heyday of atomic weapons testing in the 1950s, the propagation of the shockwaves from the bomb blast was indicated by refraction of the visible smoke trail from solid fuel rockets launched behind (relative to the camera) the actual blast. For the longest time, I was of the impression...

If I download an .ork file for a given rocket with complex freeform fins and wish to upscale it (like a BT80 Luna Bug or equivalent), is there a way to get a template for the fins by themselves that I could print out or would I have to copy them into something like MS Paint and print from there...

A month or so ago, I posted in the techniques section about a tube marking and cutting guide I made, but I think it makes more sense here given that it is actual hardware rather than a technique. So that post is here...

I've had this idea rattling around in my head for a while, and I think it would be super fun to try. A rocket that looks like fried chicken. I'm thinking using crumpled pieces of napkin or toilet paper soaked in elmer's glue as a paper mache to get the fried texture, and paint with some textured...

Here's a simple tube marking and cutting rig if you need something more versatile than the yellow tube marking rings from Estes. It's a scrap 2X4, a metal yardstick, a three foot length of angle aluminum, a plastic clamp, scraps of wood (I used a large paint stir stick) some screws, and silicone...

Greetings, everyone. I have some spare 41.6mm (Estes BT-60) tubes lying about and I'd like to make a Delta IV Heavy 3 motor cluster with them. But I can't find any commercially available nose cones that would look right on it. Big Bertha cones are close; they're about the right size, but they...