Are there any other rocketeers out there? I went to the desert on Saturday and launched off some rockets. I put an F5-6 engine in a medium sized rocket and I found it completely charred and destroyed about two miles away. Apparently the ejection charge imploded and set fire to the inside. Maybe I shouldn’t have glued the nose cone on hehehe;) . Anyways, I just got really interested in rocket science and was wondering if anyone else knows anything about rockets. Please comment:)
nah im more of a brain surgery guy
My dad used to work for NASA. 
I flew model rockets around jr. high and high school. I preferred gliders or ones that did alternative stuff. We had a huge field to launch them in, but there was a rocket-eating tree on the edge of the field. It had an uncanny way of sucking them up.
The possibilities for human flight have been a passion of mine since my high school days in Massachusetts. I’ve always loved playing with rockets, and used to spend a fair amount of time experimenting with both fuel sources and nozzle efficiency.
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My son’s boys club builds and launches rockets every spring and we ususally have a big rocket launch afternoon at summer camp. Between winds and trees you’re lucky to get more than two launches per rocket before they’re lost forever.
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My grandad was a rocket scientist.
Some friends of mine also built an aspirine rocket about a year ago. It lifted off nicely and flew up before falling down.
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Of course, the Dept of Homeland Security is on their way to visit you.
Hide the rockets!!!
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I like that short exert from Johns sentence. It has a nice warm feeling about it, something a grandad would say to a small child to hide something that might scare/or confuse him or her.
As for rockets, we had one. it was big and red and we conducted a huge science experiment with it in grade ten. The experiment was called ‘red rocket-red rocket’. That is about all my rocket experience.
Apart from one rather embarrasing part of my teen-hood where someone else (not i), one of my friends, inserted one of thise little rocket engines into the bottom of a dead wallaby, set it up on a stand and tried to launch it. needless to say, the smell was awfull and the mess was worse.
Sounds like you guys need a bigger field. The field we used to use was way big. It just had this strange attraction to the rocket-eating tree. Even when there was only the lightest touch of breeze, the tree would get our stuff, which would land in the very top of it. This tree wasn’t even in the field, it was in the back yard of one of the houses surrounding the field. When we were lucky, we’d go to that house the next day, and the people who lived there, accustomed to this, would hand us the object that had fallen into their yard. If it had.
It sounds like, at your young age, you never had the chance to be exposed to the Peanuts cartoons/comics, by Charles Shultz. He introduced the idea of the kite-eating tree, which would always end up “getting” Charlie Brown’s kite.
I have read a few peanuts comics, yet to my generation, a comic is simply something that makes reading the newspaper worthwhile.
although i do have quite a collection of ginger meggs and swamp comic books.
At my dads friends ‘farm’ we launched some rockets. It went almost straight up then floated down way across the field. So a whole bunch of people took off in the truck, ripped across two fields then caught the rocket with their hand out the window!
Anyone ever use an engine bigger than an F?
i watch a lot of this on discovery channel over here in australia.
i love it when you see the really good guys who have earnt their way up and can use engines like O and P in experimental rockets and stuff.