astronguy
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Hi, my name is Brian. I flew rockets back in the late 1990's to early 2000's until other interests took over. My son got me reinterested in rockets because of a school project he did last year.
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Welcome to the forum.
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Thanks. I'm trying to learn the website.
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Welcome back. What are you working on now?
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Nothing right now, going to order a few kits.
Hey! Welcome back!
You’ll find that the fundamentals are still the same but there are a lot of neat design, construction, and launch techniques that were uncommon or just did not exist 20 years ago. 3D printing, LiPo batteries, rail buttons, and more complex electronic payloads are just a few.
You’ll find that the fundamentals are still the same but there are a lot of neat design, construction, and launch techniques that were uncommon or just did not exist 20 years ago. 3D printing, LiPo batteries, rail buttons, and more complex electronic payloads are just a few.
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You might also enjoy cloning an old favorite. Check out JimZ's rocket plans. He's got scans of a huge swath of rockets through the years. Parts can be sourced from a number of vendors.
Welcome, glad you are here.
Welcome!
One of the most useful free tools in rocketry is OpenRocket. With it you can quickly build a simulated rocket and get approximate altitude and speed estimates. There are hundreds/thousands of OR files out there for kits as well as scratchbuilds. And the program includes a huge set of files for stock parts from Estes, Centuri, PML, almost everyone.
Balsa Machining is one of my go-to sources for parts, mostly low- and some mid-power stuff, as well as motors.
AC Supply has Estes kits and motors that are well-discounted.
Terry
One of the most useful free tools in rocketry is OpenRocket. With it you can quickly build a simulated rocket and get approximate altitude and speed estimates. There are hundreds/thousands of OR files out there for kits as well as scratchbuilds. And the program includes a huge set of files for stock parts from Estes, Centuri, PML, almost everyone.
Balsa Machining is one of my go-to sources for parts, mostly low- and some mid-power stuff, as well as motors.
AC Supply has Estes kits and motors that are well-discounted.
Terry
Welcome back to rocketry.
What kind of rocketry are you interested in? Do you have a goal? Photography, videos, build it big, scale, weird stuff, fly high, fly fast or all of them?
What kind of rocketry are you interested in? Do you have a goal? Photography, videos, build it big, scale, weird stuff, fly high, fly fast or all of them?
astronguy
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Right now I'm just relearning everything I forgot.
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I flew Estes rockets back in the 1980's. BlueBird Zero was my baby back then.
Around 1998, I got into drag racing, and then stopped drag racing in 2017.
Found rockets, again, or they found me. If you like craftsmanship, painting, noise, speed, (or burning money) it's a great hobby. It's also very easy to pare it to almost any hobby budget. You can build for A motors or K motors. I like them all.
I mostly got back in for high power, because of the adrenaline loss from no longer racing. If you like high power, go for it. I like the noise and speed.
I'd suggest going to a club launch to see what everyone is doing now. If you get to watch some punchy high power stuff, you may decide to get certified.
Around 1998, I got into drag racing, and then stopped drag racing in 2017.
Found rockets, again, or they found me. If you like craftsmanship, painting, noise, speed, (or burning money) it's a great hobby. It's also very easy to pare it to almost any hobby budget. You can build for A motors or K motors. I like them all.
I mostly got back in for high power, because of the adrenaline loss from no longer racing. If you like high power, go for it. I like the noise and speed.
I'd suggest going to a club launch to see what everyone is doing now. If you get to watch some punchy high power stuff, you may decide to get certified.
Take your time and enjoy the process!
Agreed.
Even something like an F52 can give quite a rush if you’ve mainly been flying Estes motors.
Welcome, I got back into this around 2012 and joined the forum but haven't launched since 2013 until recently. Finding a lot of people on the Facebook pages that don't know about this site. I try to spread the word as much as possible. I'm hoping for my L1 soon, and after seeing a L2 cert with a K360 last weekend I'm going at least to that! Have fun!
Chris in Idaho
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Hi Brian, what rocket(s) were you launching in the 90s?
First thing to do is locate the Atlanta area rocket clubs and go to a launch.
