5thDay
Well-Known Member
Greetings my name is Jeremy and my 4 year old son and I enjoy loosing model rockets.
Oops I meant flying!
I have always enjoyed rocketry but hadn't designed or built my own until recently. Given nice weather, running to a craft store for some B motors to put into a ready to fly rocket was a lot of fun for my son and the rest of the family and neighbors who all wanted to see a launch.
We call it "up in the air day" and we get out the foam stomp rockets, our drones, even paper airplanes a few times! It makes it fun for him and I have a ton of fun myself. Lately, I've had a bit more of the hobby bug as I see a lot of avenues my previous experience with related hobbies (electronics, circuit design, mod building, scientific knowledge and understanding of physics) as well as my work experience in aerospace (advanced composites, ablative materials, etc.).
The reason I say I am considering making this a hobby is that do more of the things I enjoy I face much higher cost investments to do those things. If I go all-in I would want NAR membership, certification attempts, reloadable hardware and in general larger rockets to house electronics. For now, it is still a lot of fun for me and I located some mid power single use motors to see what I am capable of and how much I might enjoy doing sanctioned launches and being responsible for the higher impulse.
Long introduction, sorry I am just being a little more upfront than most as I won't turn down good advice from others who have been at this point. I do have a specific question about a Soyuz cluster I am building that I can't figure out. I will put it into the appropriate area but it is the reason I ultimately registered as a member. In short, (yes I am doing a 20 motor cluster with hot staging) I am reluctant to fly beyond booster separation because with those off the rocket I don't understand how I will not be instantly unstable...
A couple quick photos attached. That is not the rod I will use for this Soyuz! I took that photo so I can caption it "time to build a new launch rod!"
Oops I meant flying!
I have always enjoyed rocketry but hadn't designed or built my own until recently. Given nice weather, running to a craft store for some B motors to put into a ready to fly rocket was a lot of fun for my son and the rest of the family and neighbors who all wanted to see a launch.
We call it "up in the air day" and we get out the foam stomp rockets, our drones, even paper airplanes a few times! It makes it fun for him and I have a ton of fun myself. Lately, I've had a bit more of the hobby bug as I see a lot of avenues my previous experience with related hobbies (electronics, circuit design, mod building, scientific knowledge and understanding of physics) as well as my work experience in aerospace (advanced composites, ablative materials, etc.).
The reason I say I am considering making this a hobby is that do more of the things I enjoy I face much higher cost investments to do those things. If I go all-in I would want NAR membership, certification attempts, reloadable hardware and in general larger rockets to house electronics. For now, it is still a lot of fun for me and I located some mid power single use motors to see what I am capable of and how much I might enjoy doing sanctioned launches and being responsible for the higher impulse.
Long introduction, sorry I am just being a little more upfront than most as I won't turn down good advice from others who have been at this point. I do have a specific question about a Soyuz cluster I am building that I can't figure out. I will put it into the appropriate area but it is the reason I ultimately registered as a member. In short, (yes I am doing a 20 motor cluster with hot staging) I am reluctant to fly beyond booster separation because with those off the rocket I don't understand how I will not be instantly unstable...
A couple quick photos attached. That is not the rod I will use for this Soyuz! I took that photo so I can caption it "time to build a new launch rod!"