Pretty neat!
Pretty neat!
That is really something.!
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Really impressive. I bought a small Estes rocket about 55 years ago, stuffed the biggest motor that would fit in it and when I lit that sucker it was out of sight in 0.001 seconds and was never seen again.
I almost lost my eyesight as a dumb kid playing around with model a rocket engine. Had a couple left over from my rocket I built but lost. Decided to try and remove gunpowder from engines to do something dumb with it. I used a nail and hammer to chisel out contents and when I hit it the engine ignited and blew up in my face. I didn't know they would ignite without the heated wire insert. Thankful my stupidity at the time didn't cost me dearly!
Really cool. Thanks.
That's incredible. I dabbled with Estes model rockets as a kid, but never anything that sosphicated. Basically go up, the chute pops open and it floats back down.
Unless the chute doesn't pop and it becomes a supersonic javelin heading straight for Earth where 20 other kids are screaming and running for their lives to the nearest treeline. Ask me how l know.Originally Posted by printman71
This reminds me of those ad's in the comic books for those model rocket "engine's" that you fueled with gasoline.
Cool
Almost makes it not worth it to see a real space launch! Neat.
i was in the Model rocket club in JR HS it was a blast one kid had a good size Saturn 5 model about 2 feet tall and maybe 3 inches around the thing took 3 of the D size engines at a shot , he had an igniter not get one lit sooo it went up like 5 feet and away it went jut off the deck and broke up the track team . It was great.
Estes rockets were made in a super small town near where i grew up. Spent a lot of my childhood chasing them down on bikes around our neighborhood
Does the roll program and everything! Cool !!!
I had a customer that built an apollo rocket, that thing was about 5 feet tall, spent over 6 months building it, took it out for it's maiden flight, beautiful launch,parachute deployed, just enough breeze to make it drift coming down, launch field was next to a highway, yep drifted down right in front of a semi.
OK, how do you know?Unless the chute doesn't pop and it becomes a supersonic javelin heading straight for Earth where 20 other kids are screaming and running for their lives to the nearest treeline. Ask me how l know.
We used to do model rockets during royal rangers at church. They were fun but 90% of them got lost in the woods
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Unless the chute doesn't pop and it becomes a supersonic javelin heading straight for Earth where 20 other kids are screaming and running for their lives to the nearest treeline. Ask me how l know.
lol, been there done that in my childhood time too. Lost many of em from always buying the longest burning D motors I could find.
I use to build Hi powered rockets. It was a blast. LOL. I flew several bigger than most of these. I had one I flew and recovered to over 6000ft. I have a buddy that flew the really big stuff. 15000 feet plus.
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So, at what point do you have to get permission from the FAA or NASA to launch those size of rockets to those altitudes?
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