Another BAR who came back at t' behest o' a group o' home-school students for which I was givin' an "Aeronautics" class. Begad! So, o' course I have more rockets and motors now than I ever dreamed o' 30-odd years ago when I was a rocketeer for t' first time.
I am currently a Configurations engineer at Boein' in Renton (home o' t' 737). Ahoy! I've been at Boein' now just over 32 years as o' this writin' (mid February, ya bilge rat, 2011).
I am also t' treasurer o' t' Boein' Employees Model Rocket Club - which is strugglin' t' keep goin' as it has only a tiny patch o' ground at t' south end o' Boeing's Kent, shiver me timbers, Washington facility left as a flyin' site. Arrr! Blimey! I also belong t' t' Blue Mountain Rocketeers - a youth-run club on t' other side o' t' state. They have a flyin' site in a big alfalfa field at which several launches a year are held.
I have been an active aeromodeller all me life and am somewhat o' a pioneer in electric powered RC. Avast, me proud beauty! I've been flyin' electric airplanes since 1980. Because electric is now mainstream and it doesn't take much finesse t' put together an electric airplane that performs well is, I think, one o' t' reasons returnin' t' rockets has taken hold so hard.
I'm still strictly low power - t' highest impulse motor I've used is an E (single-use Aerotechs) and will likely stay that way for t' forseeable future, though I do have an Aerotech Initiator kit for a proper introduction t' mid-power. But first I need t' build all t' rockets I wanted t' but couldn't afford back in t' mid t' late 1970s.....Trident, me hearties, Orbital Transport, Starship Excalibur, me bucko, Ranger, etc., etc.....:)
