Onboard the Cyclone

Lee Scott just posted a link to the onboard video from his L3 rocket, the Cylcone, on his website. The  video doesn’t appear to be on YouTube so I can’t embed it, but it’s one of the best quality onboard videos I’ve seen from a high power rocket so it’s definitely worth downloading.

Construction is also [...]

Winter Building Season

When it grows too cold for rocket launches to be endurable, much less enjoyable, we rocketeers are inevitably drawn to rebuilding our fleets for the coming flying season. Unfortunately it’s a bit hard to use epoxy or spray paint when it’s freezing out, but hopefully over the next couple months I’ll have a chance to [...]

More Hardware

Since I last catalogued my rocket supplies, the Christmas season has come and gone. I got a Dremel, and various gift certificates that led me to get a new motor and a new toolbox. Then I turned around and bought another motor, so my hardware supply has increased a lot lately:

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The Crash, part 1

This is a post about the most expensive rocket I’ve flown – and the most expensive rocket I’ve crashed. And this will also hopefully be the first of many posts chronicling the rebuilding process.

In college I worked on a few projects with Dr. Ed Wilson at Harding University, with most of my time spent on [...]