Yeah, Those are the guys that wear the oversized military hats and goose-step to the launch site!
I'm not that far away... I'm in Shandong Province, China.
Don’t know much about the place, so don’t know pluses or minuses about the move. Family there, if I may ask?I should explain why I made this query:
My wife and I are seriously contemplating moving there after I retire in 3 years.
I have no idea if there is any organized model rocketry there or if it's even allowed.
I fear having to give up the hobby (again) if we move there. Worst case is I could still maybe build rockets, but might not be able to fly them. They would have to be permanent shelf queens!
The situation is in a word: Bleak... They do sell them though. You can get a limited number of Estes kits via Taobao (but they are not cheap (based on the local currency) when I last looked). Sky is the only manufacturer that I've found so far. Sky does make their own motors. Estes hasn't paid for the safety checking that is required to sell their motors in China (CE), and as such, are not legally available or sold (to my knowledge). The required testing for safety is not cheap, and the market isn't that good (nor the hobby industry as a whole either). Kids (the primary consumer for model rockets) just have way too much homework and schooling to be able to do much of anything creative on their own when they reach a suitable age for rocketry. Another major issue is copyright infringement. China does have a huge problem with intellectual property piracy.K’Tesh, what is the rocketry situation like in China? I know there is one model rocketry manufacture there (Sky). Do they make their own motors? Can you get Estes and other motors there?
I don’t know about Korea, but there’s a guy from Japan who occasionally posts to the NAR Facebook page with his exploits. I haven’t seen a post from him in a bit, but he flies with a small group of people. I think it’s mostly low power; he went to Australia to get his HP certification.
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