Greg Smith makes cool rockets

Greg Smith has one of the best blogs out there to feature high-end high power rocket projects.

For the last few months Greg chronicled the construction of Em-Sem-Fifty, a minimum diameter carbon fiber rocket designed around full-M motors. The second flight of Em-Sem-Fifty (after a warm-up on an L) was a drag-race on – what else [...]

To Aeropack is divine

I think I’m now officially in the “Winter Building Season.” While there may be a number of launches with great weather between now and next spring, you can’t really count on a combination of clear skies, low wind, and warm enough temperatures that I’d want to stand around outside all day. Now I’ll concentrate my [...]

Expanding my motor suite

So many casings, so little time. Or rather, so little money. I bought a used (why would you ever buy new?) 38/600 casing from Ken at Performance Hobbies at Red Glare, so now I have the collection above: 24/40 and 29/40-120 mid power casings, 29/180-240 casings, and 38/240-720 casings.

I’m excited to fly a lot of [...]

Red Glare VII

Last weekend’s Red Glare VII was pretty great, if not as great as Red Glare VI back in April. While Friday and Saturday at MDRA’s biannual regional launch were washouts (I didn’t go), Sunday was absolutely gorgeous. While I had planned to fly my 2.6″ Sandhawk on an I and Lunch Money on a J, [...]