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I agree with 1-6 7 I just want a rule that is consistent and I suspect the current one is. It allows some strategies some folks (53/142) disagreed with. 8 While I can see why this was brought to vote, the "strategy" is as much about the rocket as the user and the user is selected by the...

Static stabilty is simple CG-CP. Dynamic stability is different. If you have a parasite on one side like an Enerjet Aero-Dart with a Pterodactyl, with the glider just above the fins, it is stable but tends to rock a bit on angle of attack and can rotate or spin due to parts misalignments...

I sooooooo want to be. I am a rocketeer first. I was sucked into politics by attacks far stronger and more frequent than Troj's preconceptions and poking. Now that I have been trained, I want to fix the problems. That does tend to show a bit of discomfort. I am not on a witch hunt. I am on...

I agree politics gets in the way of progress, but not that what's regulated stays regulated. It is difficult to change, but once you convince the regulator or a judge with jurisdiction over the regulator, or an entire legislature with jurisdiction over the regulator, it is possible. The...

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=13110 "Obviously, politics will enter into a lot of discussions, in some regards, especially when discussing such rocketry-related topics as regulations that impact the hobby or human space flight." "This doesn't mean you cannot discuss the...

When the motors were CSFM listed, it did not allow a POIII purchase and discharge them because they are restricted to M power. But A POII or POI or the folks directly flying with them for non-takwaway or sales, were allowed to, without making their own motor. That is what was lost by this...

This is not trolling. There is a current event that raises questions about these things. Right now all we are doing is discussing facts including recent historical certification facts. The principal of "Kosdon East" was Paul Robinson who recently died and was remembered at LDRS-29 with a...

When was the last time a Kosdon by Kosdon and a "Kosdon East" motor tested by NAR came off certification? This whole thing makes my brain hurt. Jerry

Except . . . . Once again and with all due respect, in the case of Kosdon he has a single 1.3C approval and ships using SP10996 as 1.4C 0351 or whatever, but allegedly lacks ANY individual EX numbers for individual articles known as reloads. They are not listed in the hourly updated DOT approval...

Motor nomenclature is byzantine. Not only do we use Newtons which are 4.448 of something else called pounds which surprisingly is not metric either which would be 453 of those grams in a pound. But one's a mass and another's a force and who can parse that unless you are in orbit? The letter...

I am betting most of those warnings would be off-topic for this and other sites, but a web page . . . . . Thanks again. See you soon. I'll bring a rocket. The one I had planned for LDRS-29 was canceled when the O motor controversy made it unlikely to get the right propulsion. N and O motors...

There is only one state with different enough rules to matter to a manufacturer. California. This vendor at issue is from California and ships from California. So this is not an issue of parsing many state and local laws and regulations. It is one. The sore thumb of regulations. The...

People go to the races to see the crashes. This worked. Jerry

https://www.rocketryplanet.com/forums/showpost.php?p=160305&postcount=59 Jerry: "Let's assume the current clear area rule is fine for the moment. The instance we are discussing did not clear the area at all but substituted water. The rule does not allow that. The instance we are discussing had...

I inspected the grains. They were homogeneous, smooth, well chemically bonded, and the storage time was about as short as possible since it is a new product and the loads discharged had to be sourced in CA, shortening the supply chain. Last I checked Gary (his minions) does not pre-treat the...

Heard he is not legal from the mouth of the (state) authority himself, personally. Let's at least take out hearsay for the purpose of this discussion. Jerry

Darrell was overwhelmed with content. My articles alone had over 3x the image content as most other articles and he was getting stuff from Neil as well. He has a real job and it was impacting it, so he took a few days off after posting my Day 3 and Neil's Day 6. He has since posted my Day 4...

I selected your particular post to answer the question because you asked it best. 1. The certification tests are static not dynamic. 2. This is something only someone with the friendly ear of Gary Rosenfield can find out, but did he use the same casting tubes for both the cert samples and the...

In my own LDRS article on RP I also took special note of the e**ortech (I have been told this "cute term" is critical and was cause to be warned. That was hyper-sensitive on the part of moderators IMHO, but this does seem to be one of those sites that set a "high school" criterion then go...

I am strongly in favor of CTI but "legal" isn't exactly a TRA/Kosdon criterion, is it? I may be "out" in the TRA world, but I have "article approvals" with "competent authorities" and "explosive classifications" and "you know who" does not. There is legal then there is TRA blessed. Are...