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[Pilotx1]

Hi everyone, recently kinda stumbled back into rockets a few weeks ago with a friend and his kid, wanted to try out launching rockets . found a couple of my old rockets at moms house from grade school and got them flying again, an alpha and a wizard, along with a baby bertha. recently picked up a bullpup kit from the hobby shop and happened across an old estes saturn V kit that I'm going to save for a winter build.. Thinking about heading up to Bong Rec to see what the high power launch is about this weekend

Jason

 

[neil_w]

Welcome! If you've never been to a high power launch you're in for a treat.

 

[Hobie1dog]

to the forum

 

[PSLimo]

I'm west of you on route 20 and that's where I fly. Here's a link to the TWA website for Bong.

https://www.tripoliwisconsin.org/

 

[Pilotx1]

Welcome! If you've never been to a high power launch you're in for a treat.

yep never been to one, actually just found out about it not too long ago, biggest ive seen is the estes C engines

 

[Pilotx1]

I'm west of you on route 20 and that's where I fly. Here's a link to the TWA website for Bong.

https://www.tripoliwisconsin.org/

cool Ill check them out

 

[ljwilley]

If you've never seen bigger than a C engine, you are in for a surprise! After going to that launch, you are probably going to want to get into rockets even more.

 

[JeffBigg]

Welcome to the forums, good luck on your level 1. I’m guessing you will be shopping for a level 1 kit soon after seeing the high power flights.

 

[prfesser]

Hello and welcome!

One of my favorite online stores is Balsa Machining. Bill has a huge selection of body tubes, nose cones, centering rings, balsa fin stock and blocks, etc. for the scratch-builder. His prices for motors are very competitive. And he has one of the lowest-priced mid-power kits available---the 3" 29mm 'School Rocket'. And a .

AC Supply sells discounted Estes kits and motors (you have to put the item in your cart to see the discounted price, because Estes). Great service.

JimZ's site has plans/instructions for most kits that Estes, Centuri et al have ever made, as well as "Design of the Month" rockets and many others.

OpenRocket is a free and fun program for designing rockets, testing for stability, estimating altitude, etc. Here is a list of some OR files for older and current rockets. You can print templates for fins, transitions, nose cones, get altitude estimates, etc.

Eggtimer sells kits for altimeters, GPS, flight computers etc. Cris's kits are so inexpensive that some rocketeers buy a kit for each rocket. The EZ-DD package includes a 3" rocket designed for dual deploy, and an electronics bay, altimeter and wiring, for just $100. It will fly on mid-power and can be used for L1 certificationa on any H or low-end I motor.

Warning: Rocketry is a bug that bites deep and rarely lets go. It bit me around 1965...

 

[Pilotx1]

Took the bike up there yesterday morning despite the misty overcast weather, figured there was low odds there would be a launch in that weather(if it were RC planes we wouldn't have flown) but was happily surprised to see what looked like a decent number of people there and got to talk with a couple. very cool to see the low power estes type stuff right along side the HPR stuff. Ill probably bring some estes up for next time.

Welcome to the forums, good luck on your level 1. I’m guessing you will be shopping for a level 1 kit soon after seeing the high power flights.

yep spent more time than i probably should have yesterday looking at different kits. Theres one in the near future for sure and have it ready for next spring

Hello and welcome!

One of my favorite online stores is Balsa Machining. Bill has a huge selection of body tubes, nose cones, centering rings, balsa fin stock and blocks, etc. for the scratch-builder. His prices for motors are very competitive. And he has one of the lowest-priced mid-power kits available---the 3" 29mm 'School Rocket'. And a .

AC Supply sells discounted Estes kits and motors (you have to put the item in your cart to see the discounted price, because Estes). Great service.

JimZ's site has plans/instructions for most kits that Estes, Centuri et al have ever made, as well as "Design of the Month" rockets and many others.

OpenRocket is a free and fun program for designing rockets, testing for stability, estimating altitude, etc. Here is a list of some OR files for older and current rockets. You can print templates for fins, transitions, nose cones, get altitude estimates, etc.

Eggtimer sells kits for altimeters, GPS, flight computers etc. Cris's kits are so inexpensive that some rocketeers buy a kit for each rocket. The EZ-DD package includes a 3" rocket designed for dual deploy, and an electronics bay, altimeter and wiring, for just $100. It will fly on mid-power and can be used for L1 certificationa on any H or low-end I motor.

Warning: Rocketry is a bug that bites deep and rarely lets go. It bit me around 1965...

the egg timer kits look interesting, building it myself just adds to the fun. I was also looking at the jolly logic chute and putting that into the low power stuff I have to get a feel for how things work