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This section of my web site contains information on my latest
hobby, model rockets. Up until the end of 1998, my boys and I had only built Estes kits
and scratch-built rockets from Estes parts with engines up to D-size. We started flexing
our rocket muscles in 1999. I have built a cluster rocket (a modified Estes
Shadow) that can hold up to 5 engines, with a total
impulse in the lower range of F. I have also built my first true high power rocket,
CR4. This 46-inch-tall, 4-inch-diameter rocket has an
auto-winding 35 mm camera in the payload bay and a 29 mm engine mount. It has been flown
numerous times on F-motors: Aerotech single-use F25-4W and F50-4T, Aerotech F40-4W RMS;
and NCR F62-4 and F62-6 Dark Stars. On June 11, 2000, I flew it on an Aerotech H97J-S reload
in a Dr. Rockets 29/240 RMS casing for my Level 1 High Power certification flight.
The hyperlinks on the left, below
Rockets,
will take you to my other rocket-related pages.
Future updates to the rocket pages will
include recent fleet pictures, launch pictures, early launch reports, additional CR4 photos,
AstroCam RTF photos, and more.
Check out the cool original rocket designs
(including my own) at:
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This page has been visited
times since November 4, 1998.
This page was created on October 1, 1998,
and last updated on December 24, 2002.
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