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We're asking from feedback from our customers and future customers, so please take a look at our questionnaire over in the Vendors forum. ThroWeight Rocketry Questionnaire - Please take a look!

Hi there! At ThroWeight Rocketry (www.throweightrocketry.com), we are looking at ways to increase sales of our low-power and mid-power kits. If you would, please take a few minutes to take a look and answer these questions about our kits and our website. Our kits come with uncut balsa...

I may have finally lost my mind, but I have an important announcement. My son Thomas and I have started a new rocketry company, ThroWeight Rocketry (www.throweightrocketry.com), selling kits of our own design. Our current kits, with more to come, are: Fire Shark - A two-stage rocket...

Prompted by the original Upscale Death Star thread here in the Scratch forum, I'm in the process of working up a BT-60-based upscale of the Estes Death Star.

Okay, so today, Christmas Day, I actually started building this thing. Here's what it is: It's a 1/200 scale model of the Shuttle Derived Heavy Lift Vehicle that was presented to the Augustine Commission on the future of U.S. manned space flight this summer. It's based on BT-60 tubes for the...

So, one of my PC's has been acting up lately. Failure to boot every now and then, very slow, no apparent virus infestation. Finally it would only boot up into Windows' diagnostic screen, which let me run a disk diagnostic that indicated hard disk problems. (Maybe. I could be remembering this...

My InFlight Mach 10 clone has been sitting on the dashboard of my minivan ever since my club's launch on November 14th, so I've had a lot of time to look at it. It flew twice at the club launch, basically doing a really big inside loop both times. The first time it hadn't quite pulled out of...

I am looking for either balsa or plastic nose cones for a space shuttle model that will have the external tank based on a BT-60 tube and the SRB's based on BT-20 tubes. Does anyone know of a source for these nose cones?

(At the risk of double-posting...) Apparently I like to start projects but have a hard time completing them, because even though I have at least 5 rockets in the build queue right now... I'm working on a 2-stage model that my son Thomas drew on a piece of posterboard, called the Twin...

Apparently I like to start projects but have a hard time completing them, because even though I have at least 5 rockets in the build queue right now... I'm working on a 2-stage model that my son Thomas drew on a piece of posterboard, called the Twin Shark. The fins on the booster and...

Last week, I placed an order with Semroc that turned out to be undeliverable because of the shipping address I gave them. Once I found that out through the tracking info provided by stamps.com on Thursday of this week, I e-mailed Sheryl at Semroc right away to let her know about the problem...

Hi, all, I wanted to share a good hand-carryable portable storage solution that I found recently (at Lowe's, I think, for about $16). Here's a link at amazon.com, where it's priced at $19.95: https://tinyurl.com/ktnlcl It's the Stanley Deep Professional Organizer. It has 10 compartments...

I picked up 3 Fliskits kits recently, the Triskelion, the ACME Spitfire, and the Nantucket Sound. 2 of the 3 have large shrouds and nose cones made from rolled cardstock that's supplied with the kits. On both the ACME Spitfire and the Nantucket Sound, the fins attach to the shrouds with no...

Has anyone here built and flown the A-10 glider that was featured in "Sport Rocketry" a few years ago? It's on my to-do list but I haven't gotten around to building one myself.

I dreamed last night that my six-year-old son had neatly broken the fins off of all of my rockets. I gathered all of them together so I could show my wife and all 3 of my sons. I wonder what that means. Also? They all seemed to be 3 or 4FNC models, and in retrospect, I didn't recognize any...

Since this is a family-friendly forum, and since I have an interest in tattoos even though I don't have any of my own... Let's see your family-friendly tattoos!

Would many people be interested in a professionally-printed book of photos from NARAM-50? I'm thinking that those of us who took pictures at NARAM would contribute photos for the book, while retaining any copyrights to the photos themselves. I've been looking at www.lulu.com, a...

Since the rebirth of TRF, we've lost all of the nice threads about making motor adapters to allow the use of smaller diameter motors than a particular rocket was designed for. It's a pretty simple concept, but well worth discussing. So discuss! And show us your pictures!

I'm building, at an incredibly slow pace (shocking!!!), a 4-motor cluster rocket with 4 18 mm motor mounts. So far I have the motor mounts assembled and glued into the centering rings. Each motor tube is 9" long, and the centering rings are 1/8" plywood, one near the aft end of the motor...

I've seen the first movie, "Meet the Parents," but I haven't see this sequel. Is it any good?