G+_Michael Heinz Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Ralph Mills exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Heinz Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 How about a project to attach a mobius to the rocket's nose cone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 If you don't have telemetry gear, rockets with the bigger engines are super easy to loose. At least we don't have to use CB radio frequencies for that anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mark Harry Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I did that with my oldest daughter, until one didn't come down as expected. Never saw it again and figured a lawsuit would soon follow so we grabbed our stuff and went home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 That brings up a good point. AMA membership (http://www.modelaircraft.org/) not only covers quads and airplanes with their 2.5 million dollar liability insurance, they cover model rockets too. If you are a member you have the insurance. If you are interested here are the benifits: http://www.modelaircraft.org/membership/membership/overview.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Hughes Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 My last rocket flight was in the second grade, (I graduated HS in 1994) I lost the rocket :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Eddie Hughes One of my favorites was an Estes model called the Mosquito. It was nothing but a nose cone, motor tube, and fins. Thing was so light that even with the smallest motor we could find, it still got caught in a gust of wind and who knows where it ended up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Heinz Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 My favorite was an Estes model of the F14 Tomcat. I flew it for a few months till the motor mount failed when the parachute charge went off. Thing came down like a lawn dart, buried itself up to its wings in the dirt. Best. Crash. Ev4r. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I custom built a lot of rockets. Also was Rocketry Leader for 4H. Best crash ever from that was when one of the kids built their rocket with plastic model cement and the balsa fins blew off the body on launch. Everyone was on the deck and it was flying everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Terry Henderson Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ They Used To Broadcast The LDRS On The Discovery Channel !! I Watched It Every Year !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Anthony Bishop Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 With all the droning these days, I almost forgot this awesome craft. I haven't messed with rockets since I was a kid. Looking forward to this on the show if you do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Frank Wolfe Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Would love to see some of the new diy tech. I was always losing rockets when I was a kid. I would use the biggest engines and end up losing rocket when wind would take shoot afterward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Frank Wolfe Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Yeah, I saved my money for months and bought the rocket with a old 110 camera in the nose. They were not cheap 30 years ago! Lost it first flight. Would love one today that would phone home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Heinz Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 I always wanted one of those... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 The CamRoc was fun. I had one of those too. Now we should be able to whip up a live video feed though in the same space and weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Heinz Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 The mobius is certainly though enough, although mounting it would be a challenge. I was also wondering if the Padre wasn't going to set up something with accelerometers and other sensors to give detailed flight profile data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Why do I have the gut feeling that Padre just wants to build a rocket assisted quad racer? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Heinz Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Or a rocket launching quad racer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 maybe a quad racer launched from a rocket. No that would be crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Perfect application for the remote I just stripped off a kiddie quad (the ATV kind). I have a fob and receiver that need a job, and I was thinking of adding roman candles to a quad, but this is a much better, and likely safer, use of it. Count me in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 BTW... The flight data is easy to capture. There are small, lightweight data recorders that give time of flight, max elevation, etc. I forget the product I looked into last, but it was small enough to fit into the run-of-the-mill rockets you can pick up at hobby lobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dieter Breitenbach Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_E. Matt Armstrong Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Make your own powdered sugar "engines" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex Hulinsky Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I have a rocket that has a camera in the nose, but my goal is to make it digital instead of 110 film that is difficult to develop now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Keith Mallett Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Like as in sending Alice to the moon??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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