Informational and educational materials on the rocketry hobby from various sources
My positive pressure indoor spray painting booth worked great, but it was so large, that it was impractical. Once I took it down and re-arranged the Rocket Room, I was pretty sure I’d never use it again, at least not in its original design.Besides, I’m…
An announcement was made on Facebook last night: The Maine Missile Math & Science Club, a kind of sister club to CMASS, my NAR section, has lost its launch field, seen in the Google image above.This is a beautiful, wide, flat open area, a large sod…
Click here for Part 1 of this series.Click here for the most recent post in this series.The Handbook of Model Rocketry by G. Harry Stine and Bill Stine briefly describes the process of turning a balsa wood nose cone from scratch, using a drill as a mak…
Click Here for Part 1Maybe you recently purchased an Estes Saturn V, and yet you are afraid to begin building it. Am I ready for this? you might ask yourself. The Saturn V is listed as a Skill Level 4 kit (some might consider it more of a Skill Level 5…
The new Estes catalog came out today, and among other things, they’re bringing back the Black Brant II, a scale model of the Canadian sounding rocket.I love BT-55 sized rockets, and I love the look of the Black Brant II. I’ve wanted one for a while now…
Estes has a new website design debuting soon – probably in a day or two, if what Ellis Langford and Bill Stine told us at The Rocketry Show stays on schedule. For now, the above picture is all you’ll see when you go to their website.Along with a new we…
The latest episode of The Rocketry Show podcast was released today – just before we all head down to Cape Canaveral for NARCON 2019.This is one we’ve wanted for a long time – Ellis Langford and Bill Stine of Estes Industries! There are some good tidbit…
I’ve decided to post a build series as I work on the new, 50th anniversary edition, Estes Saturn V. This rocket has been covered before, most extensively and best by Chris Michielssen on the Model Rocket Building blog. If you’re building this rocket an…
Yesterday on Facebook, Scott Binder of SBR/FusionRocket.biz posted the following announcement. This is the End…. due to health reasons, Scott Binder Rocketry (SBR) and www.fusionrocket.biz will close.First, let me thank all of the customers we’ve had…
Click here for Part 1 Scanned, downloadable PDF files of The Model Rocket News can be found in a few places around the Internet. There are probably a few missing, and I don’t know that any one site has the whole collection, but a lot of these have fort…
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