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Altus Metrum rolls out 2nd generation ground software

Altus Metrum rolls out 2nd generation ground software

BLACK FOREST, Colorado USA — Altus Metrum is pleased to announce general availability of our second generation ground software for use with TeleMetrum. This new software release works identically on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. In addition, many of the functions that were only available through command line utilities in the first-generation, Linux-only...
SWT brings Electric Slide to model, high power rocketry

SWT brings Electric Slide to model, high power rocketry

BELMONT, Massachusetts USA — Back in the early 90's, the "Electric Slide" was made popular...
MARSA introduces first products in new MARSA-RF line

MARSA introduces first products in new MARSA-RF line

FAIRPORT, New York USA — The engineers at MARSA are proud to introduce the first products...
International Rocket Week 2010 continues until Monday

International Rocket Week 2010 continues until Monday

LARGS, Scotland UK — Rocketeers from around the world were taken by surprise when a golden orb appeared ...
Essence Model Rocket Reviews now under new ownership

Essence Model Rocket Reviews now under new ownership

OVIEDO, Florida USA - Roger Smith, of PayloadBay.com, is the new operator of the Essence's Model Rocketry ...
Grand opening special awaits guests to Rocketry Warehouse

Grand opening special awaits guests to Rocketry Warehouse

HOLLSOPPLE, Pennsylvania USA — Performance Rocketry's Curtis Turner is proud to announce his most re...
 

World's first amateur rocket built for manned space flight

World's first amateur rocket built for manned space flight BORNHOLM, Denmark EUR — A group of Danish amateur rocketry enthusiasts is working to make Denmark the fourth nation in the world capable of launching humans into space through a non-profit organization called Copenhagen...
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Rocket Boys' Big Creek High School will be demolished

Rocket Boys' Big Creek High School will be demolished WAR, West Virginia USA — The historic home of the Rocket Boys of McDowell County is coming down. While initially Big Creek High School was the subject of strong community interest with hopes of revitalizing the building...
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Tripoli Cherryfield back to launching rockets at May event

Tripoli Cherryfield back to launching rockets at May event CHERRYFIELD, Maine USA — Saturday was an odd day. The winds aloft were light out of the northeast but we had a sea breeze from the southwest close to the surface. Rich Willey and I did our best to figure out where to p...
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Violent Agreement: Adrian Adamson's high altitude project

Violent Agreement: Adrian Adamson's high altitude project Featherweight Altimeters' owner Adrian Adamson, father of the lightweight Parrot altimeter, has a real penchant for high altitudes and getting there in a hurry. Adamson is an engineer who worked with NASA's Jet P...
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Tech Tips: 5-Part Series on Advanced Flight Electronics

Tech Tips: 5-Part Series on Advanced Flight Electronics This is the fourth installment of a five-part series put together by Thomas J. Miller on the subject of advanced flight electronics for use in high power rocketry. Miller's company, Black Magic Missile Works, is a small ...
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AeroTech announces release of RMS™ Delay Drilling Tool

AeroTech announces release of RMS™ Delay Drilling Tool CEDAR CITY, Utah USA — AeroTech is releasing a new delay drilling tool for use with its line of 18-38mm RMS™ and RMS-Plus™ reloadable motors. The RMS Delay Drilling Tool™ (or RDDT™, P/N T082510-1...
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Guest Editorial: One teacher's take on socio-economics

Guest Editorial: One teacher's take on socio-economics Between January 1, 2010 and July 31, 2010, which was the start of NARAM-52, the National Association of Rocketry conducted its first-ever membership drive, called "52 by 52," with a goal of raising its membership ro...
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First Look: Madcow's new all-fiberglass 2.56" HV ARCAS

First Look: Madcow's new all-fiberglass 2.56 The Atlantic Research Corporation's All-Purpose Rocket for Collecting Atmospheric Sounds, or ARCAS, rocket made its maiden flight in July of 1959 while the last ARCAS was flown in 1991, when it was retired from ...
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Website Review: Payload Bay showcases hobby rocketry

Website Review: Payload Bay showcases hobby rocketry If you are a fan of hobby rocketry auctions, the name Payload Bay might be familiar to you. To those that don't recognize it, let me formally introduce you to PayloadBay.com as it's known on the Internet, the pet proj...
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Rocket Assembly Center, from Boys' Life, December '90

Rocket Assembly Center, from Boys' Life, December '90 "Model rocket builders can always use an extra pair of hands when gluing and painting," wrote Mark Haverstock in the December 1990 issue of Boys' Life magazine. "Over the years, rocketry buffs have invented...
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Chasing the N record: Pursuing stratospheric dreams

Four years ago, James Dougherty didn't know the difference between a G80 and an M2500. A computer programmer from Northern California, Dougherty spent most of his time in Silicon Valley helping start-up companies and their customers with complex computer systems. In his spare time he liked to drive sports cars, have fun at the beach, or just hang out with his wife and daughter.Today, Dougherty is among a handful of hard core, high-power rocketry enthusiasts — in the United States and abroad — who are quickly moving toward a new altitude record for a commercial N motor. These fliers, taking advantage of technologic advancements in rocket motors and recovery systems — and their own hard work — believe they can clear 50,000 feet, or higher, on a single N. That's an altitude nearly two miles higher than commercial jetliners typically fly, and close to four miles higher than the peak of Mt. Everest. This is the realm of the stratosphere, where thunderstorms are born and the air density is nearly one-eighth that found at sea level.

 

D-REG101: Building the Estes D-Region Tomahawk

The Estes D-Region Tomahawk is back for its final segment in this How-To Classroom Series. Sporting a traditional white paint job with black, red and brown trim, the D-Region Tomahawk makes a great statement in scale model rocket kits. Follow along as we finish out this final lesson.In this edition of the How-To Classroom, we are focusing on building a hardened version of the new Estes D-Region Tomahawk (#2037). This kit is 38.8" long, 1.8" in diameter and comes with a 24mm motor mount. I got my Tomahawk from Belleville Wholesale Hobby for just $24.49. Features of the kit include a very detailed blow-molded nosecone, a very detailed fin and fin canister section, a twist-lock motor retainer and a rip-stop nylon parachute.

 

One man's quest to honor America's Saturn V rocket

On April 25, 2009, history will be made.  At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest scale model rocket in history. The rocket will weigh over 1,600 pounds, it will stand over 36 feet tall and it will be powered by a massive array of nine motors: eight 13,000ns N-Class motors and a 77,000ns P-Class motor. The estimated altitude of this single stage effort will be between 3,000 and 4,000 feet and the project will be recovered at apogee. In a special to Rocketry Planet, author Mark B. Canepa and ROCKETS Magazine wish to share Steve Eve's story with the readers here.

 

HJ101: Turbocharging the Estes Maxi Brute Honest John

This edition of the Rocketry Planet How-To Classroom is based on the Estes Maxi Brute Honest John, a 1/9 scale model of the venerable ballistic missile used by the United States Army. This class covers the Estes first edition Maxi Brute kit #1269 released in 1975, the Estes second edition Collector Series kit #1269 released in 1993 or the third edition Maxi Brute kit #2166 released in 2000.This kit is approaching collector status, if it hasn't already, and you can still find them occassionally on eBay for reasonable prices. This class project features dual deployment with an altimeter bay, fiberglass airframe reinforcing and fiberglass fins to replace the thin styrene shells that come in the standard kit. In fact, of the original kits, we are mainly using the styrene fin canisters and the two-piece styrene nose cones while replacing most everything else — this is imperative to be able to fly these kits on 38mm and 54mm motors.

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