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Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 1) (2016-07-02)

We’re now two weeks away from the July launch, whose contest — ½A Glider Duration — is one of the ones I have focusing on as a goal. And I don’t have a thing to fly. Yeah, I made a ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 2) (2016-07-09)

I had a bunch of progress to report on the Nymph — I thought. The other day I got two packages in the mail: a nose cone (and some other stuff) from eRockets and some ⅛” by ⅛” spruce ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 3) (2016-07-10)

OK, this makes more sense. Wing shaped and dihedralized. Angle isn’t crazy. Meanwhile I put together the fuselage boom and pylon, two ⅛” by ⅛” pieces of spruce for each. [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 4) (2016-07-14)

I was a little puzzled about the stab. Landis’s 1974 Model Rocketry article shows the stab mounted on top of the fuselage boom while von Kiparski’s 2002 redrawn plan has it underneath. I ... [Read More]

Rich's Rockets: Building the Landis Nymph (part 5) (2016-07-15)

The last several pieces were glued on. Here’s a piece of launch lug (sloppily cut, as all my launch lug cuts tend to be) glued under the stab. There’s a piece of scrap balsa clamped to ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: New day, new name, new issues (2016-08-25)

Last night I decided on a name for the foam ekrano-glider: Chesapeake Sky Monster . I also decided on two 24mm mounts. I just wasn't feeling the joy for another large cluster and this will allow for ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: The pitfalls of real-time design (yet another photoless post) (2016-08-26)

Well, progress on the Chesapeake Air Monster is crawling along.  The good news is that the motor mount flips like is s'posed to. The rest isn't as good. I added the motor mount tubes and began ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Down to four options (2016-08-29)

It appears I have once again been defeated by a glider. I tried extending the canards on the Chesapeake Sky Monster. No Joy. Added tail weight as before. Marginally better. Added some more...it still ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: BAR Rocket Fleet #109 Mini-Maggot 3 (2017-04-20)

  An Old Favorite           The original Mini-Maggot in 1975 The Mini Maggot 3 is a BAR era re-build of a pair of ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: Back In The Day, Part 3 - A Man of Many Boost Gliders (2017-04-22)

          In looking through the scrap book of photos and flight log records spanning my early years in the wonderful hobby of model rocketry, I found that a ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: A Cheap and Simple Boost/Glider Launch System (2017-04-29)

My return to the hobby of space modeling as a 'Born Again Rocketeer' has abruptly whisked me off into the realm of front engine boost and rocket gliders.  I knew ... [Read More]