Ack, I never thought I'd use that term. Anyway, Rocketry Planet is providing a feed of LDRS28-related Tweets. So far, I've been underwhelmed by Twitter but maybe this will prove interesting. Brett ... [Read More]
Rocketry Planet has posted more details on the first day of, er, flying. As Brett Keller reported via Twitter , the field conditions are terrible. Darrell has posted some photos, including the ... [Read More]
I'm adding to this thread as new sources are found. The latest will be on top. (posted 7/11 12:22 AM ) And, although only Day 1 is currently listed, ROCKETS Magazine's albums should provide the best ... [Read More]
Truth is stranger than fiction. Jerry Irvine is apparently writing LDRS launch reports for Rocketry Planet - Day 1 of LDRS 29 sees high winds with little flying . Sound like everything but the ... [Read More]
Rocketry Planet has a great report on day 2, including 3 slide shows and a video montage of people, places, and, more importantly, things (that means rockets, y'know). I attached a small ... [Read More]
DSC01818 , originally uploaded by GraceFamily . As mentioned in my earlier post. Click through to see the Flickr user's entire LDRS-29 album. [Read More]
Here's another small but nice album on Flickr. It includes shots of several big futuristic/sci-fi rockets. Looks like PunkRocketScience had a bad day - there is a shot of a badly crunched ... [Read More]
A reader sent me the link to their nice photo album from Saturday . Looks like the site was well protected by a Patriot battery. :D Was that Mythbuster Kari Byron that I s ... [Read More]
Jerry Irvine's day 3 report is up over at Rocketry Planet. I'll add a link here when Neil posts his. Jerry's report Neil's report Highlights - Student's flying low and slow versions of famous ... [Read More]
While waiting for the day 4 reports (and maybe Neil's day 3)... TRF post packed with photos - Highlights: Interceptor-N both going up and down; Patriot battery with one hald way out of its tube; big ... [Read More]
I noticed via Neil's Day 3 report that ROCKETS Magazine's galleries are being populated. They have some really great shots and I can tell their DVD will rock. I couldn't resist swiping ... [Read More]
Neil McGilvray's report on day 4 is up on Rocketry Planet. This is the first day that Neil beat Jerry in the launch report drag race, so I don't know if Jerry going to submit one. If so, I'll add ... [Read More]
No written report - yet - but You can read the Day-5 report AND the ROCKETS Magazine crew has uploaded a few photos from Day 5 . I think Neil said he was going to fly a huge single use motor ... [Read More]
Well, you can stick a fork in LDRS-29. There is no report on the closing day yet, but ROCKETS Magazine does have a gallery . Also, it looks like the launch will be featured on the ... [Read More]
When I first started Facebook, not many rocketry people/companies/orgs were there. In fact, I wanted to keep my Facebook account and my rocketry web presence separated so I didn't search any ... [Read More]
Big because there are over 3000 photos. Bad because you have to wade through stuff like ~40 shots of the same 'chute in the sky. I gave up at page 30 when I found the one showing Mythbuster ... [Read More]
Click through any of these to get to the source album. It's worth the time if you want more LDRS pics. An unknown RG. No comments please. DSC_9945a , originally uploaded by El Jefe Torcido . ... [Read More]
Bayourat Rocketry plans to document this year's LDRS. He'll try to broadcast live from Argonia but, if his cell service doesn't cooperate, he'll record a nightly show. Check out ... [Read More]
IMG_9720 , a photo by megram on Flickr.
I had heard about this...er...rocket. Twitter user bayourat was involved and reports it won the oddroc competition. Want...more...details. (And a photo or ... [Read More]
A few days ago, some nice photos began to show up on Flickr. Thanks to the owner's generosity, these were embeddable...and a couple were embedded. Then they stopped. Some nice ... [Read More]
Tap, tap, tap. I'm impatiently awaiting all the photos people have said are out there. Here are a few more LDRS items from here and there. There are certainly a lot more than this ... [Read More]
I am still surprised how few photo galleries I've found. However, what's there is good! Ray LaPanse continues to populate his albums . And, ROCKETS Magazine has their mega-sized albums ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace and Rocketry has a video of the CATO of Troj's 'Insane Project'. That's an impressive array of rocket confetti and showering propellant!
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Today, the Rocketaholic cross-posted Chris Pearson's history of LDRS on his blog (from Rocketry Planet under a Creative Commons License with Attribution). I have referred to the same article ... [Read More]
At least, the first I've seen. DTH Rocket has posted a report on the first 2 days of LDRS-31 : My First LDRS -- First 2 launch days . I let you read the whole report but will swipe one ... [Read More]
Seems like the photo documentation has been slower coming this year. I haven't really scoured the Internet but will point out a few sources that I've run across. I may update the list and re-post as ... [Read More]
Just watched Discovery Science's LDRS 31 show . Some people have complained that it portrays we sport rocketeers as a bunch of yahoos who love to blow things up and don't care much for safety. That ... [Read More]
These came from Liberty Launch Systems/ROCKETS Magazine's LDRS-33 Saturday album . The rocket didn't seem to fly 100% straight but appeared to recover just fine. I'm hoping Neil will talk about it ... [Read More]
It's hard to believe that LDRS was basically in my own backyard and I didn't register to fly. I did, however, traipse out to say hi to some rocket buddies and see a few flights. The weather was ... [Read More]
I call it the Black Rock Edition because most of the enclosed material originated there: one article on the Rocket Mavericks July launch and three on Balls 17. Where else other than Black Rock will ... [Read More]
All and all, 2008 was a momentous year here in the Dungeon. On a personal basis, it started poorly but ended on a high note. But, since this is a rocketry blog, my top 10 is limited to on-topic ... [Read More]
Dale Windsor's on-again, off-again model rocket motor history page is on-again .
The LDRS-28 featured projects page is coming along nicely.
No Polish rocket jokes, please...they've got a ... [Read More]
This issue features several articles about, or at least motivated by, the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. Besides the fact that we sport rocketeers are also space program fans, the tie-in to sport ... [Read More]
AeroTech Information Release 5/28/09 AeroTech Creates Karl E. Baumann Signature Product Line AeroTech is pleased to announce that it has created the Karl E. Baumann (KEB™) Signature L ... [Read More]
I got my Level-2 at LDRS2000 outside Orangeburg, SC. My Great Googly Moogly flew on a J350 that was generously provided free by AeroTech. Recovery was controlled by a GWiz altimeter with motor ... [Read More]
A while back, I posted about N-Power without epoxy? .One of the rockets I mentioned was Michael "Dr. Rocket" Reiner's modular aluminum rocket. I learned the following from Point 39 Productions video ... [Read More]
Here is Brian Weese's Purple Haze , which flew at LDRS XVII in the Bonneville Salt Flats back in August 1998. It flew on an H180 and 60 Estes 'C' motors arrayed along the entire body. It looked like ... [Read More]
This was a full scale SAAB that flew at LDRS 17 on a central M and four I's. The I's lit and lobbed the rocket off the pad. The M then ignited when it was oriented in the wrong direction. Lesson: ... [Read More]
First, let me say that I appreciated Brett Keller's efforts to provide updates from LDRS 28 (his Tweets can be found here ). I enjoyed hearing some feedback from the field. So, this is only a ... [Read More]
Woohoo, I got both the Sept/Oct Sport Rocketry (with NSL coverage) and the Aug ROCKETS Magazine (LDRS 28 issue) today. Reading and blog posting to ensue. But now I have to fiddle with my new ... [Read More]
Well, that was quick, eh? First, it turns out the rechargable trimmer was quick and easy to assemble, charge and use. Second, I haven't actually read the whole magazine. But, here goes anyway. I'll ... [Read More]
The three main features in this issue are the National Sport Launch, Team America Rocket Challenge and a tech article on building an electronics bay. I like the cover photo of the high power Jayhawk ... [Read More]
A few days ago, Rocketry Planet published a great article regarding the coming meeting of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)'s Technical Committee on Pyrotechnics in Salt Lake City, ... [Read More]
Looking back at Chris Pearson's History of LDRS , I see a photo of a rocket that flew on 80 F40's. Assuming the existing AT F40 data , that's equivalent to a 6248M3032.
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Not much going on today in the Interwebs. I was kinda down about not being at LDRS, which starts tomorrow (or today if this post is slow). Should be interesting. I've heard about ... [Read More]
ViperLaunch , originally uploaded by Mike (Sparky7) Jerauld .
Cross posted for Verna and Randy. Click through to see more from TeamViper at LDRS-29
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What's inside: Review of an Estes Saturn V complete with scale gantry; Pt. 5 of Black Magic Missile Work's electronics series; Rocket girl Haley Allen; Launch report from the Phoenix Missile Works ... [Read More]
Here is my Grand Whazoo just prior to its maiden flight at a NARHAMS launch in Middeletown Park. I think I've posted this photo before but, since The Grand Whazoo just bit the dust, I thought ... [Read More]
Hot off the presses, my copy arrived this afternoon. I immediately thumbed through it and then started reading the last article, which is about Cal-Poly's rocket-buildings. I took ... [Read More]
My knee's been bothering me and every time it starts to get better I seem to re-irritate it. So, no grass mowing or climbing down into the Dungeon today. Gotta get it ready for next ... [Read More]
The LDRS-29 video set is comprised of 4 DVDs, 2 with video and 2 containing a slideshow of over 4900 photos. The 2 hours video is shot in HD and has a Dolby-surround soundtrack. Both the ... [Read More]
Here is my yearly recap of what I think was most significant in and around the Dungeon. As originally mentioned, I jumped the gun on posting the list. It's now 100% complete! In no ... [Read More]
The Great Googly Moogly is a 8" x 75" scratch built rocket that I used for my TRA Level 2 certification at LDRS 19 in Orangeburg, SC. However, I began building it almost a year earlier, before even ... [Read More]
Starship Enterprises was a manufacturer of some interesting kits. In January 2001, the company changed names to Fat Cat Rockets. Best as I remember, both entities were owned and operated ... [Read More]
This is a ring-fin design that flies on 29mm motors. It uses several unique components: a poured foam, yarn wrapped cone and an engine bell built from Aquapod water bottles. The body is a 3" window ... [Read More]
Here are my motor reviews from EMRR. AeroTech G77R (updated!) AeroTech G79W (updated!) Quest D5-0 Plugged Ellis Mountain SU J110 (out-of-production) Ellis Mountain SU J228 (out-of-production) ... [Read More]
First shalt thou build. Then, shalt thou count to XXX. No more. No less. XXX shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be XXX. XXXI shalt thou not count, neither ... [Read More]
This post describes the Point 39 Productions LDRS XIX (on VHS tape) and the ROCKETS Magazine/Liberty Launch Systems Red Glare IV (on DVD) videos. Point 39 Productions - LDRS XIX
Ever since ... [Read More]
The pluses - It looks like a usable cone. It's nice and sparkly in the sun (better live than in the photo). The minuses - It's not perfectly uniform. The surface is not smooth. ... [Read More]
"Wildman" Tim Lehr and "Crazy" Jim Hendricksen are known for their extreme projects. In a TRF thread , Tim presents one of his LDRS projects, a 12" diameter, minimum diameter, 'Mega" pro ... [Read More]
Ray Lapanse has just started posting photos. He currently only has photos of Troj's Insane Project flying and CATOing on a 'P' motor. The album will be worth visiting again over the next few weeks. ... [Read More]
Location: Central Sod Farm, Centreville, MD ( MDRA ESL-160) Weather: cloudy, high 60s, wind ~5 MPH Total flights: Today - 4; YTD - 52 Total motors: Today - 4; YTD - 67 The day started poorly with ... [Read More]
I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do with the 28" long, 5.875" dia. Crayon bank that Skycopp gave me. I want to do something out of the ordinary. So, what else is new? The ... [Read More]
Via an email list, Alan Whitmore (Prefect, Tripoli East NC), announced that Tripoli will be rolling out a new 'research' safety code. The details are sketchy, but it sounds like this will ... [Read More]
Mavericks, Paton Group, and Inspirtech to open 5 Space Education Research Center s, ROL - "The Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, The Paton Group, and Inspirtech LLC today announce the ... [Read More]
That pretty much described today's L900 Dark Matter drag race at LDRS. My "Gone to Plaid" (Ludicrous Speed's badder brother) is the rocket on the right just taking off from the pads - Tile, ... [Read More]
I don't know if that's exactly accurate, but I just got back from Facebook, where I saw where some guy flew three 'N' flights at LDRS. For an hour or two my rockets will feel inadequate. ... [Read More]
Here's a recovery video of the Cajun Coalition's Cochon (aka Pig Rocket). Beau is still teasing us and holding back the launch segment. My wife said the Cochon should have bees stuffed with actual ... [Read More]
I see Chris Michielssen posted his top ten for 2012. So, I see no reason to wait to post mine: 1. Space Shuttle Discovery buzzes Washington DC .
2. Discovery and Enterprise nose-to-nose at ... [Read More]
This issue covers, LDRS XXXI, LDRS XXXI and nuttin' but LDRS XXXI. I've enjoyed they eye candy but haven't read it yet. I noted lots of cool oddrocs that didn't make the Discovery show. ... [Read More]
I just saw a sad post over on ZZakk's Lab . On December 21, Ken suffered a fatal motorcycle accident. I only knew him from the web but will miss our discussions. Ken was an innovator in may things ... [Read More]
ZZakk's Lab has an interesting report from LDRS 6, which was held at Hartsell, Colorado in 1987. Dig them shades! [Read More]
