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One of the products you can order is a genuine US postage stap featuring the image. You can select the size and demonination of the stamps. MPC, which produced model rocket kits from 1969 to 1978, is coming back. Round 2, a “collectibles” company which has re-issued classic toys and plastic model kits, is producing new model rocket kits under the MPC brand. The new MPC’s first kits are a series of easy-to-build model rocket kits featuring colorful pre-printed body tubes and unique parachute designs which will be available in September of 2012. Three of the first kits to be released pay tribute to Kiss, the flamboyant rock group which rose to fame in the late 1970s with hits such as “Rock and Roll All Nite.” The Kiss rockets feature full-color graphics based on classic Kiss albums. The rockets include color-molded plastic nose cones and fins. The paper body tubes are pre-decorated with images from the album covers. The plastic parachutes feature graphics inspired by the album covers. Two of the kits also contain self-stick fin decals. Also being released Continue reading A First Look at the New MPC Rockets … I had nothing to fly, but decided to attend the March TTRA launch as a spectator. And it turned out to be a great day for watching rockets fly. Can you ask for more than a bright, blue sky and almost no wind? We’ll, I guess it could have been a little cooler. You can see the entire collection of photos I took in the TTRA Photo Album. But, I’ll point out a few of the most interesting shots here. Chris Michielssen (hcmbanjo) flew his new Dr. Zooch SLS. He modified the kit a little, shifting the location of the SRBs a little and adding some decals, to match the last NASA renderings of the proposed rocket. I managed to catch a couple of neat shots of a two-stage Red Max variant in the process of staging. In the photo above, the second stage has just ignited, but the first stage Continue reading TTRA’s March Launch … I’ve posted photos from ROCK’s March, 2012, launch in the RocketReviews.com Photo Album. I arrived early to show off the new Mobile-edition of JonRocket.com.
For a day in early March, it was quite hot. But, “in like a lion” held true as high winds plagued us all day.
We had to watch the anemometer and stop the launch when the wind speed exceeded 20 miles per hour. In spite of the wind, we launched many rockets.
Chris flew his Centurion as a two-stager using an ST-16 Booster Nozzle.
The rocket reached only about 30-feet in altitude when the second stage ignited. But, it seemed to take a moment for the second-stage motor to come up to fill-powered. The rocket seemed to hang in the air for a while, before rushing away then taking a turn and heasding for the Continue reading ROCK’s March Launch … RocketReviews.com was down a few times over the past few days after the primary hard drive generated I/O errors. Once an I/O error is recorded, the operating system sets the drive to be “read-only” to prevent corruption of the data on the drive. When this happened, RocketReviews.com and the other sites hosted on the server, began returning error messages. When it first happened, I didn’t realize the cause of the problem and, in an attempt to get the sites back on line as quickly as possible, I rebooted the server. Unfortunately, that actually made it take longer to recover because the operating system was not able to shut down correctly. So, when it re-booted, the system ran a “file system check.” The file system check, because of the large size of the hard drives, takes several hours to complete. When the same problem happened again, I asked my Internet Service Provider (ISP) to look into Continue reading Up and Down – RocketReviews.com’s Roller Coaster Ride … Each year, about 7,000 students from middle and high schools across the nation compete in the Team America Rocketry Challenge. Each team designs, builds, flies, and tests a model rocket that must reach a specific altitude and duration as determined by a set of rules which change each year. Teams make test flights to qualify for the finals which are held each May in Washington. DC. The top 100 teams are invited to the national finals which awards prizes including $60,000 in cash and scholarships split between the top ten finishers. Teams of students from Presidio, Texas, have made it to the TARC finals in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Although Presidio is one of the poorest areas in Texas, teachers and the community came together to help the students make the trips to Washington. And, in February of 2012, members of the Presidio High School Rocketry Team made another trip to Washington. They attended the Continue reading Team America Rocketry Challenge Featured at White House Science Fair … Chris Michielssen’s “How to Build Model Rockets” tutorial is now featured on the home page of the National Association of Rocketry’s web site. The series of articles is the first reference listed in the sites’s “More Rocket and Rocketry Information” section. Chris recently donated the tutorial to NAR which quickly moved it to its new home at nar.org. The series contains a detailed description of how to build and finish a model rocket. Although appropriate for beginners, “How to Build Model Rockets“ offers a number of tips and techniques of interest to all model rocket builders. Chris first built and flew model rockets in 1969. He currently runs Odd’l Rockets, a manufacturer of model rocket kits, and maintains the Model Rocket Building Blog. We had a record turnout at the February launch! I recently received a couple of emails asking how to purchase advertising on RocketReviews.com. We don’t directly sell advertising, but you can advertise your products or services on RocketReviews.com in one of several ways as described below. List your products on eBay – Since eBay is an excellent resource for finding out-of-production kits as well as current kits and other rocketry products, RocketReviews.com links to eBay listings in the Rocketry Product Index and on select Rocketry Product Review pages. eBay auction listings which participate in the eBay Giving Works program, are also listed on the RocketReviews.com home page and in the list on the eBay Charity Auctions page. Ebay listings are also included in the Rocketry Deals list and in search results. Links to eBay are created automatically, so simply listing your product at eBay in an appropriate category (such as the Rocketry category) with a good description should result in an ad for Continue reading How to Advertise on RocketReviews.com … |
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