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Harry Keyes
56, Male
Amarillo, TX
United States - Share
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Composite Rockets
17 members
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High Power Rocketry
37 members
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On-Board Video Rocketry
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Profile Information
- I Belong To:
- Tripoli Rocketry Association
- About Me:
- Chemical plant operator.
Tripoli L2 - I fly with POTROCS at Wayside, TX which is a great place to launch - 5 1/2 sections of open prairie with call in waivers to 50,000 ft.
- My Interests:
- High Power and Model rocketry, shooting, hunting, backpacking.
- Things I'd Like To Do:
- Build a video rocket.
Break 5 miles in altitude with one of my rockets - yeah! and successfully recover it.
- People I'd Like To Meet:
- Richard Nakka, Jimmy Yawn,
- Favorite Rockets:
- 1. Scratchbuilt 38mm rocket w/ 29mm motor mount - It flies great and I can afford to launch it often.
2. Giant Leap 54mm Firestorm, glassed w/ dual deployment.
3. Deuces wild (love the dual smoke trails)
- Favorite Music:
- Classic Rock. Though I'll listen to anything EXCEPT Rap.
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38 mm Minimum Diameter Rocket
I finally got to launch my 38 mm Minimum Diameter fiberglass rocket last Friday 10/19/07 at the Wylie Byrd Memorial Launch at Wayside, Tx. This rocket has been a learning experience for me. It was HARD to make a small diameter rocket with dual deployment. I used spiral wound fiberglass for the airframe and electronics bay. The altimeter sled was made from 1/8" G-10 and I built a 9V battery box out of G-10, cut out an area of the sled and epoxied the battery box crossways. There is just enough…
ContinuePosted on November 20, 2007 at 11:58am — 7 Comments
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-Bryan
-Bryan
Electric planes have come a long way in the last few years. If you decide to go electric and really want to fly dont bother getting a plane like the aerobird etc. They are OK but you really need a 4 channel trainer type plane (Not a P51 etc). You need to look up the local club and talk to them. It is best if you join a club and get an instructor to teach you to fly. While you are in the hobby shop try one of the flight sims. They help quite a bit but are not a replacement for learning on a plane. Keep in mind that smaller planes don't fly as good or smooth as larger planes! A good 40 size gas trainer plane will fly better than an electric most of the time.
It's our asociation website. Our official forum it's on: www.coheteriaamateur.com.ar
There we publish our projects, reports, and so on.
We also have some work published on english, so I'll try to put it here too.
Marcelo
The Jets can be hard to fly. I have been flying for over 30 years and Jets and Helicopters are the hardest to fly. The hybrid motor pictures on my site are from a group that I was involved in a few years ago. I was a member of the Huntsville Alabama L5 society. Tim Pickens designed these motors years ago for Project HALO. Tim was the person that Burt Rutan chose to design the hybrid motor for Space Ship One. I worked with project HALO and learned as much as I could from Tim and others. I have designed several hybrid motors and plan to do some testing soon. I am just getting back into rocketry and we are trying to find a good place to safely test motors. Check out the links below.
http://www.nsschapters.org/al/HAL5/HAL5_old/HALO/SL-1/
http://www.harcspace.com/
Bryan
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