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Just a quick note:I haven’t posted here in quite a while (though I do post on Facebook, Instagram, and sometimes Twitter, for quick stuff). There are a few reasons why – life has been busy, the N00b family are moving to a new place soon, etc. I didn’t …

Saturday, May 18, the Team America Rocketry Challenge national finals take place in The Plains, Virginia.You can watch the events live on YouTube by CLICKING HERE.Follow me on Twitter.Like my Facebook page for blog updates and extra stuff.Hav…

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…