Went to launch rockets with some friends from work today, out at 60 Acres Park in Redmond. We had a wide assortment of rockets and motors (up to F class, the G motors hadn’t arrived), and a waiver from the FAA to allow shots up to 2500 feet.
My stock Mongoose two-stage kit flew beautifully the first time, but ignition of the second stage partially melted the upper stage fin assembly. Consequently, on its second (and final) flight, upon second stage ignition it took off horizontally, crossed the creek and road, and ended up in a tree in “no trespassing” territory. Oh well.
My friend Bill’s video camera rocket took a great movie of its own launch, and he’ll have it available on the web soon.
We had a great day, firing everything from small A-class kits to a large Patriot with F-class motors, an original Saturn V kit, a Gemini rocket, and a Mercury which had….guidance problems. A lot of fun. Makes me want to qualify to fly composite and larger motors…
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The National Association of Rocketry has a certification program — you join one of their chapters and fly a couple of supervised certification flights and then you get a certification license as a result, which allows you to purchase higher-powered motors. I haven’t done this yet myself, because you can purchase up to G & H motors without any certification, and if you don’t have a large launch area, H is plenty powerful…
how do u go bout getting the license for really high powered model rocketry ?
i’d like to speciailize in advance rocket motors
g-zor h-m