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Hobby Rocketry Product Reviews
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Michaelson's "Rocketman" a must-read for all enthusiasts |
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Product Review by Darrell D. Mobley
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
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Darrell Mobley reviews Ky Michaelson's new book, "Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations," a rare insight that reveals more about the strength and endurance of the indomitable human spirit than about the pursuit of rocketry itself.
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Building the Public Missiles Limited 3-inch Bull Puppy |
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Product Review by Lucas Kalathas
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
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2007 TARC contender Lucas Kalathas has written an excellent product review of the Public Missiles, Ltd. 3" Bull Puppy. Included in his article are numerous improvements he made to make his Bull Puppy even more spectacular. Read along with Lucas as he tells how he did it.
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ROCKETS Magazine's MWP4 Video: Quadruple excitement |
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Product Review by Darrell D. Mobley
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
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Just north of Interstate 80 in Princeton, Illinois, north off of state road 26, is a small town named Limerick. Or not. There's not really a town there, it's just a spot on a map. What is there, though, is acre after acre of flat farmland and home of Tripoli Quad Cities' Midwest Power.
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Tracking with BigRedBee's BeeLine 70 cm GPS Tracker |
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Product Review by STEVE FORD, QST Magazine
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 |
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You have to admire any company that is comfortable with calling itself "BigRedBee." Not BeeTrex. Not BeeCom. Just BigRedBee. This is a small business with a small, clever product: the BeeLine GPS Tracker, a tiny (1-1/4 x 3 inch) package that weighs about 2 ounces.
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ROCKETS Magazine's Red Glare Video: Star-Spangled-tacular |
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Product Review by Darrell D. Mobley
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 |
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This past October 20-22, 2006, rocketeers from all over the East Coast descended on the Higgs Dairy Farm in Price, Maryland to attend the event called “Red Glare,” gleaned from a phrase in “The Star-Spangled Banner” and now one of the nation’s largest regional high power rocketry events.
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ROCKETS Magazine's BALLS 15 Video: Nothing else like it |
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Product Review by Darrell D. Mobley
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
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The Black Rock Desert is home to the premiere experimental launch in North America, the Tripoli Rocketry Association's BALLS launch. Liberty Launch Systems and ROCKETS Magazine was there once again to capture the magic that is now in the history books as BALLS 15.
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First look: Giant Leap Rocketry's new Elipse 3" high power kit |
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Product Review by Darrell D. Mobley
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 |
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Giant Leap Rocketry leads the industry in innovative new products. Their latest kit, the Elipse, has taken their design paradigm to a new level. According to Ed at Giant Leap, “this design was inspired by the lines of the famous Jaguar XKE. I wanted to create a kit with curves that depart from the same old straight lines found in other rockets.”
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Should we wait, or should we go? |
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In the most recent High Power Rocketry magazine, it features one very accomplished flier's Tripoli certification process of all three levels in one day. Situations such as this always create confusion since it's not the norm. The question was posed recently on Compuserve, to which the fact was pointed out that Tripoli doesn't have a waiting period for the certification process, so as not to penalize those with sufficient knowledge from progressing through the process at their own pace.
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The Tripoli Wisconsin Association's (TWA) launches have drawn more and more fliers from farther and farther away. This has been good and bad. The 'bad' can include long waits between flights due to the number of people flying. The question of how to solve the problem was asked.
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15X Fat Boy: As seen on ABC's America's Funniest Videos |
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American's have become fascinated with the video format, having developed their addiction to camcorders and furthered with the advent of the personal computer, the Internet. Prime-time television leveraged this popularity some time back, through the highly-watched America's Funniest Videos television show on ABC. Imagine my surprise to see my favorite hobby showcased in video on the show after all these years.
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Website Review: VernaRockets.com |
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Verna and Randy DeArman, both 50, live in Pinson, Alabama, just north of Birmingham. They both work for a local SBA lender where Verna is in charge of servicing and Randy is a sales manager and on-site inspector. And they both enjoy the thrill of model rocketry and share their excitement with others through the model rocketry web site, VernaRockets.com. To them, model rocketry is a family affair.
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Argonia International Rocketry Festival |
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Second only to LDRS, the annual Airfest at Argonia, Kansas is, as the Kloudbusters would like to put it, the largest rocket launch of the year. This year's Labor Day weekend launch opened at 8:00 AM on Saturday, Sept. 5th. The weather was outstanding. The sun was shining and the winds were light, about 5 mph. In other words big, beautiful blue Kansas skies.
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