If you love rocketry and rocketry books, then read the book that generated enough interest to create a movie. "Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam reaches into the soul of any individual who has ever had a lust for rockets. If you enjoy the power of a model rocket in flight, then this is a must-read. Read the reviews and decide for yourself.

Jeff Brundt admits to being inspired by Andrew Waddell’s big Saturn V project. While the Saturn V is impressive, he was much more interested in the smaller Saturn 1b. In the past both Estes and Centuri kitted model rocket versions of this NASA launcher.  So Jeff let his inspiration fuel this 1/50 scale Saturn 1B project.

THIS IS THE STORY of a slice of model rocket history, and the small part that I played in it. I submit it as an example of how amazing things can result from an unimportant act, as a tiny pebble starts the avalanche. I'm not a born-again rocketeer. I never fully left the hobby; at least once a year throughout my life I was involved in a rocket launch.

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.

In my quest for the most durable and user friendly methods and materials for high power rocket construction, I've discovered a lot of interesting and innovative products from many manufacturers and vendors. This one is worth sharing with the rest of the rocketry community.

IF I HAD IT MY WAY, America would still be the strongly patriotic place that stirred the emotions of great men like Thomas Jefferson, operating on the same courage that caused them to take up arms to insure the freedoms so desirous in Revolutionary America. It would still require that government be a servant of the people, rather than appear to be visa versa.

November 8th, 1998 began as a brisk Autumn day in Orangeburg, South Carolina for Jim Mitchell of Dynamic Propulsion Systems. It marked the second day of the Tripoli Experimental launch and the day Jim's massive Nike Smoke would take to the skies. I witnessed the prep and flight of a Dynamic Propulsion Systems N4750 in the best built Nike Smoke I had ever seen.

RECENT DISCUSSIONS on most all of the online discussion areas regarding rocketry have been reeling from the disclosure that more scrutiny is coming soon from the regulatory agencies. The resulting panic that has ensued has been discouraging to say the least, full of hyperbole and bordering on pure hysteria.