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Welcome. Everyone was a beginner at some time. Some of us were beginners many decades ago, but we remember how fantastic it was to get useful information from other people. Here is a lot of that info. Here are links to many, many online resources that you should review if you are a beginner. The more you read, the faster you will move your way along beyond beginner status.
You may still have questions after you have searched these resources. Feel free to post them, but do not be surprised if the answer is a simple link to the answer on the web. This is a preferred practice to retyping or cut & pasting the entire contents of other (often copyrighted) materials. ENJOY!
Estes Educator website – free publications page. Read "The Classic Collection&" and "The Model Rocket Technical Manual":
https://estesrockets.com/edu-for-the-educator
https://estesrockets.com/product-category/miscellaneous/publications
https://estesrockets.com/wp-content/uploads/Educator/2845_Classic_Collection_TR-TN.pdf
https://estesrockets.com/wp-content/uploads/Educator/Estes_Model_Rocketry_Technical_Manual.pdf
Quest Aerospace website – remember that it will "time out" after you visit since it assumes you are shopping. Simply launch a new browser window or close your existing window and then relaunch to get back in if you have access problems. Visit the "Resource Central" page and then visit all the pages listed there:
https://www.questaerospace.com/
https://www.questaerospace.com/q_rcentral.asp
https://www.questaerospace.com/rcentral-edresources.asp
Tons of info on the non-profit NAR (National Association of Rocketry) website. You will want to look over ALL of the sections and the dozens of documents full of info:
https://www.nar.org/
https://www.nar.org/teacher.html
https://www.nar.org/safety.html
https://www.nar.org/SandT/NARenglist.shtml
NAR launch calendar and list of local NAR clubs:
https://www.nar.org/NARcalend.shtml
https://www.nar.org/NARseclist.php
How to report a motor failure:
https://www.nar.org/NARmessform.html
See attached document for an explanation of how standard black powder model rocket motors can fail.
Apogee Rockets including education info and their "Hibachi Effect" explanation (click your way though the many, many links and sub-pages):
https://www.apogeerockets.com/index.asp
https://www.apogeerockets.com/education/newsletter28.asp
Aerotech resource library including motor information and delay modification instructions:
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/resource_library.html
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/Instructions/RDK_Instructions/rms_delay_mod_inst.pdf
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/Catalogs_Flyers_Data_Sheets/hdk_x-ref.pdf
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/Catalogs_Flyers_Data_Sheets/aeroTech_delay_lengths.pdf
Websites with old catalogs, books, reports and instructions sheets and plans of old Model Rockets:
https://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/index.htm
https://ninfinger.org/rockets/rockets.html
https://www.rocketshoppe.com/
What are the limits that define a Model Rocket vs. a High Power Rocket?:
https://www.doug79.com/stuff/HPR_metric9c.pdf
UPDATED WITH 2009 FAA regulation changes that simply eliminate the entire "Large Model Rocket&"/"LMR"; categlry as it is now part of "Model Rocket&" and no notification is required for "Model Rockets".
Why is the term "cato" used for motor failures?:
https://www.geocities.com/fredeshecter/cato_origin.pdf
Centuri Design Manual:
https://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/manuals/cmrdm.pdf
You may still have questions after you have searched these resources. Feel free to post them, but do not be surprised if the answer is a simple link to the answer on the web. This is a preferred practice to retyping or cut & pasting the entire contents of other (often copyrighted) materials. ENJOY!
Estes Educator website – free publications page. Read "The Classic Collection&" and "The Model Rocket Technical Manual":
https://estesrockets.com/edu-for-the-educator
https://estesrockets.com/product-category/miscellaneous/publications
https://estesrockets.com/wp-content/uploads/Educator/2845_Classic_Collection_TR-TN.pdf
https://estesrockets.com/wp-content/uploads/Educator/Estes_Model_Rocketry_Technical_Manual.pdf
Quest Aerospace website – remember that it will "time out" after you visit since it assumes you are shopping. Simply launch a new browser window or close your existing window and then relaunch to get back in if you have access problems. Visit the "Resource Central" page and then visit all the pages listed there:
https://www.questaerospace.com/
https://www.questaerospace.com/q_rcentral.asp
https://www.questaerospace.com/rcentral-edresources.asp
Tons of info on the non-profit NAR (National Association of Rocketry) website. You will want to look over ALL of the sections and the dozens of documents full of info:
https://www.nar.org/
https://www.nar.org/teacher.html
https://www.nar.org/safety.html
https://www.nar.org/SandT/NARenglist.shtml
NAR launch calendar and list of local NAR clubs:
https://www.nar.org/NARcalend.shtml
https://www.nar.org/NARseclist.php
How to report a motor failure:
https://www.nar.org/NARmessform.html
See attached document for an explanation of how standard black powder model rocket motors can fail.
Apogee Rockets including education info and their "Hibachi Effect" explanation (click your way though the many, many links and sub-pages):
https://www.apogeerockets.com/index.asp
https://www.apogeerockets.com/education/newsletter28.asp
Aerotech resource library including motor information and delay modification instructions:
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/resource_library.html
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/Instructions/RDK_Instructions/rms_delay_mod_inst.pdf
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/Catalogs_Flyers_Data_Sheets/hdk_x-ref.pdf
https://www.aerotech-rocketry.com/customersite/resource_library/Catalogs_Flyers_Data_Sheets/aeroTech_delay_lengths.pdf
Websites with old catalogs, books, reports and instructions sheets and plans of old Model Rockets:
https://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/index.htm
https://ninfinger.org/rockets/rockets.html
https://www.rocketshoppe.com/
What are the limits that define a Model Rocket vs. a High Power Rocket?:
https://www.doug79.com/stuff/HPR_metric9c.pdf
UPDATED WITH 2009 FAA regulation changes that simply eliminate the entire "Large Model Rocket&"/"LMR"; categlry as it is now part of "Model Rocket&" and no notification is required for "Model Rockets".
Why is the term "cato" used for motor failures?:
https://www.geocities.com/fredeshecter/cato_origin.pdf
Centuri Design Manual:
https://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/manuals/cmrdm.pdf
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