Rocketry Planet

BOTHEL, Washington USA -- Impulse Aerospace, Inc. has transferred all of its retail business to its newly-created subsidiary: Rocket Vision (http://www.rocketvision.com).

Rocket Vision is an entirely web-based business, eliminating the participation of dealers and their associated mark-ups from the transaction between the manufacturer and the customer. This enables the company to market the high-quality products for which Impulse Aerospace has been known (such as Rugged-Rockets™ and Quad-Pod™ launch pads) at a significant reduction in price.

Reduction in product price is only the first of the benefits of the direct-to-the-customer relationship. Rocket Vision is currently developing two services which are unique in the hobby rocketry industry: an online rocket kit design suite and a custom decal service, each with a twenty-four hour order turn-around time.

Users will be able to use the rocket design suite to create and test their own models, then submit the component specifications to the Rocket Vision manufacturing center to have a unique kit created from the same high-quality materials used in the Rugged-Rocket line: a phenolic airframe, fiberglass fins, Kevlar™ shock- and shroud-lines and Nomex™ reusable parachute protectors.

Using the custom decal service, a modeler can upload an art file in .gif format and have Rocket Vision send it back to him printed on high-quality waterslide decal paper. The custom decal service is scheduled to be available in April 1999. The rocket design suite will be online by summer 1999.

Other features of Rocket Vision are a library of rocketry information, downloadable programs, and two communications forums: "Ask an Expert," and a bulletin board for general conversation.

All Rocket Vision products and services will be coded by experience level, to help users identify the features which will be most helpful and appropriate for them. The site is designed so that beginning hobbyists will have a place to go to learn about the basics of rocketry and receive one-on-one help and advice, while advanced users will be able to develop and stretch their skills and knowledge.

Impulse Aerospace was founded in 1986, and set a new standard for the hobby rocketry industry in 1996 with the introduction of its Rugged-Rocket kits, which have phenolic airframes rather than the cardboard tubes used by all other companies. In the coming months, Rocket Vision will release the latest models of the Rugged-Rocket line: the Star-Fire and the Solar-Venture. A digital version of the popular Veri-Fire ignition system is also in development, and is slated for release later this year.

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For further information:
William E. Maness
Impulse Aerospace, Inc.
(800) 568-2785
http://www.impulseaero.com/