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[Mega_Hurtz]

Hi guys, i thought i'd randomly post here and tell you about my experience with rockets.

To be honest im a total n00b at them, but one of the teachers at school made his own, so i got some friends together and some other science teachers (what other kind of teachers would like model rockets!) and we started a club.

Most of the time in the club was spent actually making the rockets from parts from the local DIY shop.
like plastic tubing was used for the fusealage, strong carrier bags for the parachute etc.
Making the rockets was great fun, the teacher that made his own drew up some ''blue prints'' so it was very easy to do.

Result: rockets that went a few hundred feet and worked as good as ones you would buy:D that cant be bad.

[DunDun]

thats awesome...we just watched ocotber sky and i think it would be cool to buid rockets.

[TeamTraxxasGuy]

Thats cool. I am also a Noob at this but I saw some cool orckets made on this Discovery Channel show.

[mishra]

I ve got a story about the death of the great MACH 1A. the 1st step in my mach 1 project. The MACH 1A was powered by a D12 rocket motor. In computer sims it reached a top speed of 300+mph and an altitude of really high.
I was launching the rocket for the 1st time in a while. I got it ready for launch. I went through the cheeklist. Then, 3 2 1 launch. perfect launch. little did i know that i had forgotten to tape the motor in. the ejection charge pushed out the motor instead of the nosecone. The streamer didn't deploy. i suddenly relised it wasn't slowing down. the rocket smacked inyo the road by the field i was using at 150+mph the once 12in. tube was now only 9 in. long :spam:

[iluvtruenos]

hahahahaha! I remember how I forgot to tape the motor in once...it shot straight out, and my twelve inch rocket compressed down to three in about a second. Mine was cardboard/plastic, what about yours?

[mishra]

Don't Laugh :mad:
mine was paper and glue and scotch tape :lol:

[iluvtruenos]

Hahahhah!! Nice!

[Dirt Track]

the only "rocket" (if you want to call it that) That I ever made was a 2L soda bottle, some water in the bottle, a cork, a cardbord box stand, and a bike pump with the needle stuck throug the cork, into the bottle with watter, it went pretty high and the only fuel I needed was water and air. That was a long time ago.

[DinDin]

dirttrack how did that work?

[zericon]

destroying rockets ... i've had my share.. actually if ya look at the thread i stared look at the vids...

[Rye 21]

Cool

[El Jarretto]

I am working with rockets in aerospace right now! Mine go lost in a ditch!:lol: Lol I was the only one to lose a rocket! And of course not one parachute did its job!:lol: Maybe it was because the parachutes were made of tissue paper and the strings were attached using stickers.

[stampede_dude]

i lost a many in a tree... my neighbor got it out and would give it back because they said it was their uncles fireworks...liars...

[4tec-tc3-03]

it is soo cool to see a comanche 3 (3 stages)(3 engines) go 2000+ ft and have the streamer not deploy. the comanche took me longer to build than my factory team b4 and it smashed itself.and i built one myself once . the fusolage was a saran wrap tupe and the nosecone was carved outta wood.it was about 9 inches long. that was, by far, the coolest thing a d12 engine could ever go into

[pilotwings119]

thats awesome...we just watched ocotber sky and i think it would be cool to buid rockets.
thats a great movie- I used to be so into rocketry

[JACKAL]

i used to be into rocketry untill i started to make my own engines outa others! :evil:

KAAABOOOM!:rollin:

[mahamen]

When I was in HS my physics class participated in TARC, team america rocketry challenge. Each year they set guides on what the rocket has to do and each team has to design and build them from scratch. We had to design a two stage rocket that would carry two eggs as close as possible to 1250 ft and return them safely to the ground.

I had no experience in rockets but it was an awesome learning experience. I was head designer and builder and had a lot of help from some software called rocksim. With rocksim you could design rockets in it and it would simulate its performance.

At our trials, my rocket (and I say "my" because nobody else gave a crap or helped) got to 1248 ft and retured safely with both eggs. It was best in state and qualified for nationals in Washington DC.

Check out this site http://www.aia-aerospace.org/aianews/features/team_america/ and ask some teachers about it. I'm not sure if it's too late to sign up or not, but if it isn't do it, it was a lot of fun.

[stampede_dude]

I always had the idea to get an easter egg and suspend it inside a tube with rubber bands to hold the egg