All Rocketry Blogs

Rich's Rockets: Heavy artillery for rocket retrieval (2016-06-26)

Believe it or not I still have never to my certain knowledge lost a rocket in a tree. (There’s one glider I suspect got hung up in a tree but if so I couldn’t see it from the ... [Read More]

Rocket N00b: Tree Recovery Device (2017-01-31)

Today, on the Model Rocketry Fanatics!!! Facebook group , someone posted the following video of a homemade device for recovering things (quadcopters, model rockets, etc.) from tall trees. "R ... [Read More]

Blast From The Past: Some Good Ol' Yankee Ingenuity... And Duct Tape! (2020-07-17)

Colorado Rocketeer Eric Davila of the Longmont Rocket Club sent out a picture of an interesting device that he used at a recent group launch: This is a makeshift tool which he used to ... [Read More]

Thrifty Rocketeer: The Rocket Eating Tree (2020-08-02)

The Thrifty Rocketeer blog continues...   Gosh, will you look at the calendar.... here it is August already, and we still haven't had a decent rocket launch.  This pandemic ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Smoothing Out a Wet Rocket! TIP (2020-08-17)

Yesterdays launch left my Quest FLV 15' up in a palm tree. I couldn't cut through the shock cord with my extendable pole pruner, so it was pulled down. The shock cord finally separated and ... [Read More]