Rich Thompson's Page

I've decided to take the plunge and begin a L3 project. The rocket I'm building is a 5.5" diameter upscale of one of my scratch 2.6" diameter rockets pictured below, called the Vengeance. I gave the 2.6" Vengeance to my son as a Christmas present last year, but the 5.5" version will definitely remain in my rocket hanger.… Continue

I successfully completed my Level 1 cert. flight today, 3/1/2008. I flew my LOC IV on a 29/240 Mojave Green H250G-M. It was a great looking flight with parachute deployment just as the rocket began to arc over. I’m not sure about the projected altitude because I don’t have a good set of data for the Mojave Green motor to edit i… Continue

Recently, I built a storage and transportation rack out of PVC for my rockets. The fact that I needed a better way to transport them to the flying field undamaged motivated this project. It works better than I had imagined it would. I can carry (6) mid to high power rockets wherever I want similar to carrying a suitcase. It will NOT tip over

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