Issue #13 - (7-9-00) - How to Get Your Donation Request Thrown in the Trash-can
Issue #19 - (9-10-00) - Getting Media Coverage for Your Rocketry Event
Issue #20 - (9-17-00) - How does Getting Your Hair Cut get You a New Launch Site?
Issue #21 - (9-24-00) - Recruiting and Retaining new Club Members.
Issue #26 - (10-29-00) What Makes for an Interesting Launch Report Article.
Issue #51 - (5-13-01) Using Rocketry Competions to Increase Club Participation
Issue #76 - (2-22-02) Suggestions for a young leader in a rocket club
Issue #77 - (3-8-02) Starting your own rocketry club & a FREE poster!
Issue #85 - (7-19-02) Reasons Why We Love Rockets
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Recruiting Club members at Air Shows.
Issue #161 - (5-18-06) How To Finance A School Rocket Club
Issue #210 - (06/03/08) How get your level 1 High-Power Certification
Issue #212 - (07/01/08) 6 Ideas to grow your rocket club's membership - Part 1
Issue #213 - (07/15/08) 6 Ideas to grow your rocket club's membership - Part 2

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Issue #17 - (8-27-00) - Coloring Balsa wood with RIT dye
Issue #29 - (11-19-00) Useful tools for building rockets.
Issue #30 - (11-26-00) Man vs Mother Nature; which is stronger, wood or composites?
Issue #31 - (12-3-00) What is your Skill Level?
Issue #36 - (1-14-01) The Hardest Step in Designing a Rocket
Issue #37 - (1-20-01) Flop-Tip Helicopter Model Plans
Issue #43 - (3-11-01) What Style of Rockets Do You Like?
Issue #50 - (5-6-01) Fin Shapes Revisited
Issue #52 - (5-20-01) Survey Results (and what it means to you)
Issue #56 - (7-1-01) Adhesives for Skill Level 5 Kits
Issue #57 - (7-8-01) How to Destroy A Perfectly Good Rocket Kit
Issue #62 - (9-20-01) Rocket Origami
Issue #63 - (9-26-01) How To Use Paper to Make Centering Rings for High-Power Rockets
Issue #66 - (10-23-01) Tools needed for the Saturn V kit
Issue #67 - (11-8-01) Painting the Corrugations on the Saturn V kit?
Issue #68 - 11-19-01) Pressure Relief Holes
Issue #69 - (12-02-01) Characteristics of Balsa Wood
Issue #71 - (12-29-01) Attaching Vacuum Form Wraps on the Saturn Rockets
Issue #75 - (2-15-02) Designing High-Altitude Rockets
Issue #79 - (4-5-02) Rocket Display Stands
Issue #87 - (8-19-02) Tool Plan - Make foam nose cones!
Issue #95 - (12-27-02) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets – Part 1
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets – Part 2
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets – Part 3
Issue #104 - (6-1-03) How to design and build engine mounts
Issue #113 - (10-27-03) How to use bulkheads in rockets
Issue #114 - (11-7-03) Simple hand tools that will save you money
Issue #121 - (3-15-04) Cutting body tubes at angles - make your own cutting pattern sheet
Issue #125 - (5-17-04) How To Make Simulated Nozzles To Add Pizzaz To Your Rockets
Issue #126 - (6-10-04) Common Misconceptions About Centering Rings
Issue #127 - (7-5-04) How To Design and Construct Oblique Nose Cones
Issue #128 - (7-20-04) The Art and Science of Streamer Recovery
Issue #129 - (8-10-04) Using Ejection Charge Baffles
Issue #136 - (12-13-04) Make Your Own Transition Sections
Issue #137 - (1-11-05) Designing a Parachute Compartment Into a Booster Stage
Issue #138 - (2-2-05) How To Join Paper Transition Sections
Issue #142 - (5-26-05) How to un-join an epoxied part.
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Gradual Parachute Deployment
Issue #145 - (7-14-05) Building Motor Mount Adapters.
Issue #146 - (8-1-05) Tube holder to make it easier to glue on fins.
Issue #147 - (8-22-05) How To Fill Body Tube Spirals
Issue #149 - (10-7-05) Repairing Fuzzy body tubes.
Issue #150 - (10-24-05) Swivel Fins Do Fly Straight
Issue #150 - (10-24-05) How to practice cutting vacuum form rocket wraps.
Issue #151 - (11-7-05) Machine tools on your wish list
Issue #151 - (11-7-05) Fixing Tight Fitting Tube Couplers
Issue #152 - (11-18-05) Aligning "In-Line" fins
Issue #153 - (12-6-05) Painting Decal Paper To Make Stripes.
Issue #154 - (12-30-05) Make a payload bay for small rockets.
Issue #155 - (1-17-06) Aligning multiple launch lugs on your rocket.
Issue #157 - (2-22-06) Hang your fins out to dry after applying sanding sealer.
Issue #158 - (3-14-06) Painting Decal Paper To Make Stripes Part 2.
Issue #160 - (4-24-06) Fin Alignment guide.
Issue #165 - (8-15-06) Making Fin Slots With A Dremel
Issue #166 - (8-29-06) Fixing cracked fins
Issue #167 - (9-12-06) How to achieve sharp paint lines on your rocket.
Issue #174 - (1-4-07) Preventing a zipper with masking tape.
Issue #175 - (1-16-07) Painting the tip of the a nose cone
Issue #178 - (2-28-07) How to check the fit of nose cones on the body tube.
Issue #183 - (5-8-07) How to turn a flat parachute into a NASA style parachute
Issue #183 - (5-8-07) Simplified Fin Alignment
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Sizing and Parachute folding techniques
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Using Snap-Swivels on your parachutes
Issue #185 - (6-5-07) The Ultimate Rocketry Glue Guide: Part 1
Issue #185 - (6-5-07) Centering ring cutting tool
Issue #186 - (6-19-07) The Ultimate Rocketry Glue Guide: Part 2
Issue #187 - (7-3-07) Using low-tack tape for crisp paint lines.
Issue #188 - (7-17-07) Build a cold gas-piston ejection-baffle system
Issue #188 - (7-17-07) Building tool: self-healing cutting mats
Issue #190 - (8-14-07) The nuts and bolts of cluster motor retention
Issue #192 - (9-11-07) How to repair a tip that was broken off a balsa nose cone.
Issue #194 - (10-09-07) Make a spinning parachute.
Issue #194 - (10-09-07) How to install an altimeter in your rocket.
Issue #200 - (01/10/08) Tips on finding Optimum Mass
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) Make a Boattail Engine Lock
Issue #203 - (02/26/08) Build a boattail rocket that is hookless.
Issue #212 - (07/01/08) How to measure the diameter of a body tube
Issue #215 - (08/12/08) How to convert a plastic nose cone into a drag reducing boattail
Issue #217 - (09/09/08) Make a fixture to draw lines down a boattail
Issue #227 - (1/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter
Issue #229 - (2/24/09) Reinforce Paper Transition Sections
Issue #231 - (3/24/09) Build a Removable Shock Cord Mount
Issue #237 - (6/16/09) Engine Retention for a 3-Engine cluster rocket
Issue #237 - (6/16/09) Build a great science fair rocket
Issue #240 - (7/28/09) Reattaching a shock cord on a broken rocket?
Issue #240 - (7/28/09) A glue applicator for applying glue deep inside of body tubes
Issue #241 - (8/11/09) Filling Spirals In body tubes
Issue #241 - (8/11/09) Removing Engine Blocks from your rockets
Issue #250 - (12/15/09) Alternate method of applying paper skins to fins
Issue #254 - (2/09/10) How To Add a Camcorder to Your Rocket

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Issue #6 - (5-21-00) - Contest Flying Preparations
Issue #10 - (6-18-00) - Altitude Flying Strategies
Issue #32 - (12-10-00) Detecting and Using Thermals
Issue #47 - (4-15-01) Piston Launchers Explained
Issue #51 - (5-13-01) Using Rocketry Competions to Increase Club Participation
Issue #61 - (9-4-01) Political Correctness In Rocketry Competitions
Issue #76 - (2-22-02) Using Tracking Powder
Issue #83 - (6-14-02) Spin Doctor Helicopter Model – Part 1
Issue #84 - (6-28-02) Spin Doctor Helicopter Model – Part 2
Issue #90 - (10-11-02) Winning the $50,000 Team America Rocketry Challenge
Issue #93 - (11-27-02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 2. Two-Station Tracking
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Answers to commonly-asked TARC questions.
Issue #103 - (5-16-03) TARC Lessons learned.
Issue #164 - (7-28-06) Precision vs. Accuracy when tracking rockets
Issue #209 - (05/20/08) TARC suggestions that may help you do better next year
Issue #222 - (11/18/08) Tracking Down Lost Rockets
Issue #223 - (12/2/08) Build a triangulation scope to find your rockets
Issue #230 - (3/10/09) Increase Tracking Precision With Vernier Scales
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) Plan for the 4-A Cluster Altitude Event
Issue #243 - (9/8/09) Fly-Apart Rail Guides for Higher Flights
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) TARC streamer suggestions
Issue #247 - (11/03/09) Competition Plan: Build a Dual-Egglofting Rocket
Issue #247 - (11/03/09) Fly-Apart Rail Guides - 2nd Edition
Issue #249 - (12/1/09) How To Zero In on The TARC Altitude and Duration Objectives
Issue #253 - (1/26/10) Powder that parachute, and crochet that shock cord.
Issue #255 - (2/23/10) Superroc Flying strategies

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Issue #75 - (2-15-02) Designing High-Altitude Rockets
Issue #79 - (4-5-02) Does fin thickness affect the rocket's CP location?
Issue #80 - (5-3-02) Does the CP location change when you upscale a rocket?
Issue #84 - (6-28-02) Optimum Mass versus Peak Delay Time Mass?
Issue #86 - (8-1-02) Stability of Short, Stubby Rockets
Issue #88 - (9-16-02) How to find the maximum speed your rocket can withstand.
Issue #90 - (10-11-02) Stabilize Your Rockets Using Canted Fins
Issue #95 - (12-27-02) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets – Part 1
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 1
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets – Part 2
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 2
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) 2-Stage Rockets: Which is better: In-line or Interdigitated fins?
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets – Part 3
Issue #98 - (2-14-03) How Multi-Stage Model Rockets work - Part 1
Issue #99 - (2-28-03) How Mutli-Stage Model Rockets Work - Part 2
Issue #104 - (6-1-03) How to design and build engine mounts
Issue #113 - (10-27-03) How to use bulkheads in rockets
Issue #120 - (2-15-04) Parts of a Model Rocket
Issue #121 - (3-15-04) Cutting body tubes at angles - make your own cutting pattern sheet
Issue #125 - (5-17-04) How To Make Simulated Nozzles To Add Pizzaz To Your Rockets
Issue #126 - (6-10-04) Common Misconceptions About Centering Rings
Issue #127 - (7-5-04) How To Design and Construct Oblique Nose Cones
Issue #128 - (7-20-04) The Art and Science of Streamer Recovery
Issue #129 - (8-10-04) Using Ejection Charge Baffles
Issue #136 - (12-13-04) Make Your Own Transition Sections
Issue #137 - (1-11-05) Designing a Parachute Compartment Into a Booster Stage
Issue #145 - (7-14-05) Low-Cost Altimeter Attachment Method
Issue #149 - (10-7-05) Sizing Your Rocket's Parachute
Issue #150 - (10-24-05) Swivel Fins Do Fly Straight
Issue #169 - (10-26-06) Applying self adhesive decals.
Issue #173 - (12-21-06) Rocketry Electronics Explained - Part 1
Issue #174 - (1-4-07) Rocketry Electronics Explained - Part 2
Issue #180 - (3-23-07) Dr. Zooch's Flame-Fins stabilize rockets.
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Sizing and Parachute folding techniques
Issue #188 - (7-17-07) Build a cold gas-piston ejection-baffle system
Issue #190 - (8-14-07) The nuts and bolts of cluster motor retention
Issue #191 - (8-28-07) Odd chutes - Fun With Polygons
Issue #192 - (9-11-07) Basics Of Dynamic Analysis - Moment Of Inertia
Issue #193 - (9-25-07) Basics Of Dynamic Analysis – Corrective Moment Coefficient
Issue #195 - (10/23/07) Basics Of Dynamic Analysis - Damping Moment Coefficient
Issue #196 - (11/06/07) Basics Of Dynamic Analysis - Radial Moment of Inertia and the
Natural Frequency
Issue #197 - (11/20/07) Basics Of Dynamic Analysis - Damping Ratio
Issue #198 - (12/04/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Optimizing For Altitude
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) Make a Boattail Engine Lock
Issue #203 - (02/26/08) Build a boattail rocket that is hookless.
Issue #212 - (07/01/08) How to design a rear-ejection rocket
Issue #215 - (08/12/08) How to convert a plastic nose cone into a drag reducing boattail
Issue #227 - (1/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter
Issue #228 - (2/20/09) Why Spinning Rockets Fly Straighter
Issue #234 - (5/5/09) Fiberglass Cloth Templates for Von Karman Nose Cones
Issue #237 - (6/16/09) Engine retention for a 3-engine cluster rocket
Issue #243 - (9/8/09) Lose the launch lugs, and Use Instead Fly-Apart Rail Guides
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) Selecting the right size streamer for your rocket
Issue #245 - (10/6/09) Designing a Supperroc rocket
Issue #252 - (1/10/10) Build an Inexpensive Wind Tunnel to find the CP of your rocket

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Issue #7 - (5-28-00) - Rocketry Education
Issue #22 - (10-1-00) - Educational Uses of the RockSim Software
Issue #23 - (10-8-00) - The RockSim Challenge - a test of skill and model rocketry knowledge.
Issue #24 - (10-15-00) Predicting where your rocket will land using RockSim v4.0
Issue #26 - (10-29-00) What Makes for an Interesting Launch Report Article.
Issue #33 - (12-17-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 1)
Issue #34 - (12-24-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 2)
Issue #92 - (11-11-02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 1. Using Single Station Tracking
Issue #93 - (11-27-02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 2. Two-Station Tracking
Issue #94 - (12-13-02) How To Start A School Rocketry Program
Issue #100 - (3-21-03) What does "Rocket Science" mean?
Issue #107 - (7-25-03) Selecting the right beginner level kit
Issue #112 - (10-10-03) Rocketry Education - Cross-curriculum examples
Issue #114 - (11-7-03) How Black-Powder Rocket Engines Work
Issue #115 - (11-21-03) How Composite Propellant Rocket Engines Work
Issue #117 - (12-19-03) Phases of a Model Rocket's Flight
Issue #120 - (2-15-04) Parts of a Model Rocket
Issue #125 - (5-17-04) Coloring pages for younger students
Issue #149 - (10-7-05) Sizing Your Rocket's Parachute
Issue #157 - (2-22-06) Exporting a graph from RockSim for school reports
Issue #160 - (4-24-06) Science Fairs: Tips on Winning
Issue #161 - (5-18-06) How To Finance A School Rocket Club
Issue #164 - (7-28-06) Precision vs. Accuracy when tracking rockets
Issue #164 - (7-28-06) Quiz your students on the NAR safety code
Issue #179 - (3-13-07) Student Launch Initiative Puts RockSim Past Mach 1
Issue #187 - (7-3-07) Calculating rate of descent from altimeter data
Issue #189 - (7-31-07) Calculate the break-even point for purchasing a reload casing
Issue #190 - (8-14-07) How To Get Started In Rocketry Education
Issue #191 - (8-28-07) Odd chutes - Fun With Polygons
Issue #197 - (11/20/07) Ballistic Trajectory Experiments
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) Delay Time and Maximum Lift-Off Weight
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) What is Optimal Delay?
Issue #202 - (02/12/08) How to find the ejection charge force of a rocket motor
Issue #208 - (05/06/08) Sleuthing Altimeter Data for Critical Answers
Issue #216 - (08/26/08) Project Apollo: In the Rear View Mirror
Issue #219 - (10/06/08) Create Water Rockets in RockSim, and additional educational research projects you can perform.
Issue #222 - (11/18/08) Tracking Down Lost Rockets
Issue #223 - (12/2/08) Build a triangulation scope to find your rockets
Issue #224 - (12/16/08) How to accelerate your complex rocket project
Issue #230 - (3/10/09) Increase Tracking Precision With Vernier Scales
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) When does Deceleration Really Begin?
Issue #236 - (6/2/09) Seven big mistakes people make when teaching with rockets
Issue #237 - (6/16/09) Build a great science fair rocket
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) How do streamers work?
Issue #245 - (10/6/09) Using Drag for stability control?
Issue #246 - (10/20/09) Educator's Plan: Build a Mechanical Accelerometer
Issue #252 - (1/10/10) Build an Inexpensive Wind Tunnel to find the CP of your rocket
Issue #254 - (2/09/10) How To Add a Camcorder to Your Rocket
Issue #256 - (3/9/10) Build an Easy and Inexpensive Vacuum Chamber

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Issue #1 - (4-16-00) - How are your flying skills?
Issue #6 - (5-21-00) - Contest Flying Preparations
Issue #10 - (6-18-00) - Altitude Flying Strategies
Issue #32 - (12-10-00) Detecting and Using Thermals
Issue #33 - (12-17-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 1)
Issue #34 - (12-24-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 2)
Issue #38 - (2-4-01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 1)
Issue #39 - (2-11-01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 2)
Issue #40 - (2-18-01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 3)
Issue #42 - (3-4-01) Why do Rockets go Unstable?
Issue #42 - (3-4-01) Suppliment - Comments about Unstable Rockets
Issue #47 - (4-15-01) Piston Launchers Explained
Issue #48 - (4-22-01) Making Your Own Electric Matches
Issue #68 - 11-19-01) Pressure Relief Holes
Issue #72 - (1-20-02) What does Better Mean? Does it always mean "Higher Altitudes?"
Issue #76 - (2-22-02) Using Tracking Powder
Issue #92 - (11-11-02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 1. Using Single Station Tracking
Issue #93 - (11-27-02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 2. Two-Station Tracking
Issue #99 - (2-28-03) How Mutli-Stage Model Rockets Work - Part 2
Issue #117 - (12-19-03) Phases of a Model Rocket's Flight
Issue #131 - (9-17-04) The model rocket engine code explained
Issue #132 - (9-28-04) Selecting Rocket Motors: A Step-by-Step Proceedure
Issue #142 - (5-26-05) How to clean launch rods.
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Gradual Parachute Deployment
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Alternative to Recovery Wadding
Issue #145 - (7-14-05) Level-1 Certification the Hard Way
Issue #148 - (9-13-05) Tips on flying reload motors with copperhead igniters
Issue #151 - (11-7-05) Did you remember your pre-flight checklist?
Issue #159 - (3-29-06) Pick the right ejection delay
Issue #160 - (4-24-06) Tip: Baby powder for parachutes
Issue #163 - (7-14-06) Folding a parachute
Issue #164 - (7-28-06) Balancing a parachute
Issue #165 - (8-15-06) Hooking up a copperhead igniter
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Sizing and Parachute folding techniques
Issue #189 - (7-31-07) Calculate the break-even point for purchasing a reload casing
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) The correlation between optimum delay time and rocket mass
Issue #208 - (05/06/08) Sleuthing Altimeter Data for Critical Answers
Issue #210 - (06/03/08) How get your level 1 High-Power Certification
Issue #214 - (07/29/08) Step-by-Step RockSim procedure to calculate the maximum lift-off weight of a rocket motor
Issue #217 - (09/09/08) Selecting motors based on flame effects
Issue #218 - (09/23/08) How to minimize igniter mis-fires
Issue #222 - (11/18/08) Tracking Down Lost Rockets
Issue #223 - (12/2/08) Build a triangulation scope to find your rockets
Issue #227 - (1/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter
Issue #229 - (2/24/09) How to ignite the Aerotech D10 and D21 motors
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) Build a High Power Rail Launch Pad
Issue #237 - (6/16/09) Preventing zippered body tubes
Issue #243 - (9/8/09) Using Fly-Apart Rail Guides
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) Selecting the right size streamer for your rocket
Issue #247 - (11/03/09) Fly-Apart Rail Guides - 2nd Edition
Issue #250 - (12/15/09) Setting Mach Delay in supersonic rockets
Issue #253 - (1/26/10) Powder that parachute, and crochet that shock cord

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Issue #8 - (6-4-00) - The Bat Wing Boost Glider
Issue #12 - (7-2-00) - The Soaring Method of Birds
Issue #15 - (8-13-00) - Flying wings in model rocketry
Issue #86 - (8-1-02) HX-10 Parasite Glider Plan
Issue #115 - (11-21-03) Designing a simple glider using RockSim 7
Issue #116 - (12-5-03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #1
Issue #117 - (12-19-03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #2
Issue #124 - (4-26-04) Differences between chuck-gliders and rocket boosted gliders
Issue #197 - (11/20/07) What does "canard configuration" mean?
Issue #204 - (03/11/08) Trimming A Rocket Boosted Glider - Part 1
Issue #205 - (03/25/08) Trimming A Rocket Boosted Glider - Part 2

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Issue #44 - (3-18-01) Robert Goddard History - 75 years ago this week
Issue #142 - (5-26-05) NASA's New Moon Rocket
Issue #152 - (11-18-05) Kwangmyongsong – North Korea's Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Issue #166 - (8-29-06) Working On The Tomahawk Cruise Missile
Issue #199 - (12/18/07) 20 Years of Rocketry Progress - The Top 7 Changes I've Seen Occur in Rocketry
Issue #234 - (5/5/09) Ten Rocketry Products For A New Manufacturer
Issue #248 - (11/17/09) Why Aren't There Fins on The Ares 1-X Rocket?

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Issue #14 - (7-16-00) - Who are the heroes?
Issue #25 - (10-22-00) The Really Big Show - A description of the National Model
& Hobby Show
Issue #41 - (2-25-01) Building a Rocket Company
Issue #54 - (6-17-01) Rocketry E-Books?
Issue #58 - (7-22-01) Saturn 1B and V Test-Launch Report
Issue #81 - (5-17-02) Launching Model Rockets in Space
Issue #82 - (5-31-02) Sci-Fi Adventures - Four stories from our readers
Issue #85 - (7-19-02) Reasons Why We Love Rockets
Issue #89 - (9-27-02) How to start a rocketry company: A History of Apogee Components
Issue #107 - (7-25-03) Selecting the right beginner level kit
Issue #197 - (11/20/07) What does "canard configuration" mean?
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) What does optimum delay time mean?
Issue #202 - (02/12/08) How to find the ejection charge force of a rocket motor
Issue #208 - (05/06/08) Sleuthing Altimeter Data for Critical Answers
Issue #210 - (06/03/08) How get your level 1 High-Power Certification
Issue #216 - (08/26/08) Project Apollo: In the Rear View Mirror
Issue #231 - (3/24/09) How rocketry can lead to a career as a rocket scientist
Issue #233 - (4/21/09) What the phone company taught me about customer service
Issue #240 - (7/28/09) How do electronic altimeters work? Part 1
Issue #242 - (8/25/09) How do electronic altimeters work? Part 2
Issue #246 - (10/20/09) Educator's Plan: Build a Mechanical Accelerometer
Issue #251 - (12/29/09) Year in Review: What's up at Apogee Components in 2009?
Issue #256 - (3/9/10) Build an Easy and Inexpensive Vacuum Chamber

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Issue #4 - (5-7-00) - Dethermalizers for Parachute Models
Issue #128 - (7-20-04) The Art and Science of Streamer Recovery
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Gradual Parachute Deployment
Issue #149 - (10-7-05) Sizing Your Rocket's Parachute
Issue #160 - (4-24-06) Tip: Baby powder for parachutes
Issue #163 - (7-14-06) Folding a parachute
Issue #164 - (7-28-06) Balancing a parachute.
Issue #183 - (5-8-07) How to turn a flat parachute into a NASA style parachute
Issue #183 - (5-8-07) Another look at gradual parachute deployment
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Parachute folding techniques
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Sizing and Parachute folding techniques
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Using Snap-Swivels on your parachutes
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Cutting Spill Holes in your chutes.
Issue #187 - (7-3-07) Parachute clusters and small rockets
Issue #191 - (8-28-07) Oddchutes - Fun With Polygons
Issue #194 - (10-09-07 Rotating Parachutes
Issue #196 - (11/06/07) Parachute Riser
Issue #199 - (12/18/07) How to Fold Plastic Parachutes
Issue #206 - (04/08/08) Build a parawing gliding parachute - Part 1
Issue #207 - (04/22/08) Build a parawing gliding parachute - Part 2
Issue #247 - (11/03/09) Reinforcing Your Rocket's Parachute
Issue #253 - (1/26/10) How to powder your plastic parachutes

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Issue #08 - (6-4-00) - The Bat Wing Boost Glider
Issue #37 - (1-20-01) Flop-Tip Helicopter Model Plans
Issue #48 - (4-22-01) Making Your Own Electric Matches
Issue #73 - (1-29-02) SHX/TVM01
Issue #74 - (2-8-02) SHX/TVM01 Analysis
Issue #75 - (2-15-02) Stonebreaker/AX
Issue #76 - (2-22-02) Bolaero/Z
Issue #78 - (3-22-02) Orion Luxury Shuttle
Issue #80 - (5-3-02) Helios/DSRP
Issue #81 - (5-17-02) Mercury Transport
Issue #81 - (5-17-02) SR-72 Darkbird Alternate Decals
Issue #83 - (6-14-02) Spin Doctor Helicopter Model
Issue #84 - (6-28-02) Spin Doctor Helicopter Model – Part 2
Issue #85 - (7-19-02) Javelin
Issue #86 - (8-1-02) HX-10 Parasite Glider Plan
Issue #87 - (8-19-02) Tool Plan - Make foam nose cones!
Issue #91 - (10-28-02) SNIPET by Shrox
Issue #92 - (11-11-02) Dart by Shrox
Issue #93 - (11-27-02) Oberth by Shrox
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Vipox by Shrox
Issue #98 - (2-14-03) XF-45 by Shrox
Issue #100 - (3-21-03) Design Contest Results: Many cool rockets.
Issue #138 - (2-2-05) Tri-Tip by Shrox
Issue #140 - (3-17-05) TwoNer by Shrox
Issue #142 - (5-26-05) Sea Snake by Shrox
Issue #194 - (10-09-07) Two Plans for Spinning Parachutes.
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) Making a Boattail Engine Lock
Issue #202 - (02/12/08) Apogee Egglofter-1
Issue #204 - (03/11/08) RockSim Design: Streamline
Issue #205 - (03/25/08) RockSim Design: Flash Gordon rocket
Issue #206 - (04/08/08) Build a parawing gliding parachute - Part 1
Issue #225 - (12/30/08) Rocket Plan: Build G. Harry Stine's "Paradigm-5"
Issue #227 - (1/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter
Issue #233 - (4/21/09) Doorknob Triceratops RockSim Plan
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) Build a High Power Rail Launch Pad
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) Tim's Push-Me Pull-You rocket
Issue #245 - (10/6/09) Rocket Plan: the "Kink" Supperroc
Issue #246 - (10/20/09) Educator's Plan: Build a Mechanical Accelerometer
Issue #247 - (11/03/09) Competition Plan: Build a Dual-Egglofting Rocket
Issue #252 - (1/10/10) Plans for an Inexpensive Wind Tunnel

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Issue #103 - (5-16-03) Determining Base Drag on a rocket
Issue #200 - (01/10/08) "Drag Seperation"
Issue #215 - (08/12/08) How to convert a plastic nose cone into a drag reducing boattail
Issue #243 - (9/8/09) Lower Drag by Using Fly-Apart Rail Guides

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Issue #28 - (11-12-00) Slow Roasted Rockets; the "hibachi effect" explained.
Issue #33 - (12-17-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 1)
Issue #34 - (12-24-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 2)
Issue #38 - (2-4-01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 1)
Issue #39 - (2-11-01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 2)
Issue #40 - (2-18-01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 3)
Issue #47 - (4-15-01) Piston Launchers Explained
Issue #48 - (4-22-01) Making Your Own Electric Matches
Issue #49 - (4-29-01) Why No Composite Propellant Booster Motors?
Issue #91 - (10-28-02) Electronic Staging of Composite Propellant Rocket Motors
Issue #98 - (2-14-03) How Multi-Stage Model Rockets work - Part 1
Issue #99 - (2-28-03) How Mutli-Stage Model Rockets Work - Part 2
Issue #106 - (7-3-03) Newton's Laws of Motion, and How Rockets work
Issue #114 - (11-7-03) How Black-Powder Rocket Engines Work
Issue #115 - (11-21-03) How Composite Propellant Rocket Engines Work
Issue #131 - (9-17-04) The model rocket engine code explained
Issue #135 - (11-22-04) Why Make Your Own Rocket Motors?
Issue #144 - (6-27-05) Cleaning Chamber for Reloadable Motor Casings
Issue #148 - (9-13-05) Tips on flying reload motors with copperhead igniters
Issue #156 - (2-2-06) Lubricating O-rings on reloadable motors
Issue #159 - (3-29-06) Cleaning Reloadable Motors.
Issue #165 - (8-15-06) Hooking Up a copperhead igniter
Issue #189 - (7-31-07) Calculate the break-even point for purchasing a reload casing
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) The correlation between optimum delay time and rocket mass
Issue #207 - (04/22/08) Some FAQ's about reloadable motor casings
Issue #208 - (05/06/08) Sleuthing Altimeter Data for Critical Answers
Issue #209 - (05/20/08) What is a "loadable" rocket motor. Plus, TARC suggestions that may help you do better next year (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #214 - (07/29/08) Step-by-Step RockSim procedure to calculate the maximum lift-off weight of a rocket motor
Issue #217 - (09/09/08) Selecting motors based on flame effects
Issue #218 - (09/23/08) How to minimize igniter mis-fires
Issue #227 - (1/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter
Issue #229 - (2/24/09) How to ignite the Aerotech D10 and D21 motors
Issue #233 - (4/21/09) Cleaning the grime from Launch Rails
Issue #240 - (7/28/09) Strength of ejection charges (Composites vs. Black Powder)
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) How long can you store assembled reload motors?
Issue #250 - (12/15/09) Removing the Ejection charge of a rocket motor

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Issue #05 - (5-14-00) - What is an overstable rocket?
Issue #18 - (9-3-00) - Exploring the Cardboard Cut-out Method of CP Prediction
Issue #42 - (3-4-01) Why do Rockets go Unstable?
Issue #42 - (9-4-01) Suppliment - Comments about Unstable Rockets
Issue #53 - (5-27-01) Why Does the Swing Test Fail?
Issue #73 - (1-29-02) What is CNa? Part 1
Issue #74 - (2-08-02) What is CNa? Part 2
Issue #79 - (4-5-02) Does fin thickness affect the rocket's CP location?
Issue #80 - (5-3-02) Does the CP location change when you upscale a rocket?
Issue #86 - (8-1-02) Stability of Short, Stubby Rockets
Issue #90 - (10-11-02) Stabilize Your Rockets Using Canted Fins
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 1
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 2
Issue #101 - (4-4-03) Why do simulations show unstable descents?
Issue #133 - (10-11-04) What is "Static Margin?"
Issue #154 - (12-30-05) CP's of Short and Fat Rockets in RockSim
Issue #180 - (3-23-07) Dr. Zooch's Flame-Fins stabilize rockets.
Issue #186 - (6-19-07) What does 6-Degrees of Freedom Mean?
Issue #192 - (9-11-07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Moment Of Inertia
Issue #193 - (9-25-07) Basics Of Flight Analysis – Corrective Moment Coefficient
Issue #193 - (9-25-07) Why does the CP moves back when fins made smaller?
Issue #195 - (10/23/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Damping Moment Coefficient
Issue #196 - (11/06/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Radial Moment of Inertia and the
Natural Frequency
Issue #197 - (11/20/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Damping Ratio
Issue #198 - (12/04/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Optimizing For Altitude
Issue #228 - (2/20/09) Why Spinning Rockets Fly Straighter
Issue #238 - (6/30/09) What is the difference between the RockSim Method and the Barrowman Equations?
Issue #239 - (7/14/09) Why do tall and skinny rockets go unstable?
Issue #245 - (10/6/09) Using Dowels instead of fins? Are stick fins stable?
Issue #248 - (11/17/09) Why Aren't There Fins on The Ares 1-X Rocket?
Issue #252 - (1/10/10) Find the CP location on your rocket using a wind tunnel

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Issue #11 - (6-25-00) - Adding New Motor Files to RockSim
Issue #16 - (8-20-00) - Exporting data from RockSim and finding optimum trajectories
Issue #18 - (9-3-00) - Exploring the Cardboard Cut-out Method of CP Prediction
Issue #22 - (10-1-00) - Educational Uses of the RockSim Software
Issue #23 - (10-8-00) - The RockSim Challenge - a test of skill and model rocketry knowledge.
Issue #24 - (10-15-00) Predicting where your rocket will land using RockSim v4.0
Issue #27 - (11-5-00) Simulating Ring Tail Fins in RockSim v4.0
Issue #33 - (12-17-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 1)
Issue #34 - (12-24-00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 2)
Issue #35 - (12-31-00) Speeding up your RockSim Simulations
Issue #42 - (3-4-01) Why do Rockets go Unstable?
Issue #42 - (3-4-01) Suppliment - Comments about Unstable Rockets
Issue #45 - (3-31-01) Maximum Simulation Accuracy - Part 1
Issue #46 - (4-8-01) Maximum Simulation Accuracy - Part 2
Issue #55 - (6-24-01) Building a Hybrid Motor in RockSim
Issue #59 - (7-31-01) The Moving Target Called "Optimum Delay"
Issue #60 - (8-19-01) Smarter Guessing and Simulating With RockSim 5
Issue #64 - (10-5-01) Simulating Dual Deployment In RockSim (part 1)
Issue #65 - (10-16-01) Simulating Dual Deployment In RockSim (part 2)
Issue #70 - (12-14-01) High Acceleration Numbers in RockSim
Issue #78 - (3-22-02) Mass override features of RockSim
Issue #79 - (4-5-02) Does fin thickness affect the rocket's CP location?
Issue #84 - (6-28-02) Optimum Mass versus Peak Delay Time Mass?
Issue #85 - (7-19-02) Release of RockSim v6 and why we added new features.
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 1
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 2
Issue #100 - (3-21-03) What does "Rocket Science" mean?
Issue #101 - (4-4-03) Why do simulations show unstable descents?
Issue #102 - (4-18-03) Running Quick-and-Dirty Simulations
Issue #103 - (5-16-03) Determining Base Drag on a rocket
Issue #105 - (6-13-03) Designing Rockets with Asymmetrical fins
Issue #108 - (8-4-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 1
Issue #109 - (8-22-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 2
Issue #110 - (9-12-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 3
Issue #111 - (9-30-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 4
Issue #113 - (10-27-03) Simulating fins-on-fins in RockSim
Issue #115 - (11-21-03) Designing a simple glider using RockSim 7
Issue #116 - (12-5-03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #1
Issue #117 - (12-19-03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #2
Issue #118 - (1-12-04) Creating Subassemblies in RockSim
Issue #119 - (1-27-04) Simulation of Side Pods in RockSim v7.0
Issue #122 - (3-26-04) Simulating Foam-filled parts in RockSim
Issue #123 - (4-9-04) How to Add Decals and Decoration to your RockSim Designs
Issue #130 - (8-23-04) Optimizing Your Design Using SMARTSim
Issue #132 - (9-28-04) Selecting Rocket Motors: A Step-by-Step Proceedure
Issue #133 - (10-11-04) What is "Static Margin?"
Issue #134 - (11-01-04) SMARTSim Tips for design Optimization
Issue #139 - (2-24-05) What Is In A Rocket Engine Data File
Issue #140 - (3-17-05) Hidden Features in RockSim v8
Issue #141 - (4-29-05) How To Create Complex Clusters In RockSim
Issue #142 - (5-26-05) RockSim viewed with 3D eye-glasses.
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Mood Lighting With RockSim - Part 1
Issue #144 - (6-27-05) Mood Lighting With RockSim - Part 2
Issue #146 - (8-1-05) Creating Sprites In RockSim: Put your design in the 2D Flight Profile.
Issue #148 - (9-13-05) Speed Up RockSim's 2-D Flight Profile
Issue #148 - (9-13-05) Where to find additional RockSim design files for common kits.
Issue #150 - (10-24-05) Swivel Fins Do Fly Straight
Issue #150 - (10-24-05) Through-the-wall fins using RockSim 8
Issue #152 - (11-18-05) Fixing Parts in the Database
Issue #153 - (12-6-05) Adding Parachutes to Boosters in RockSim
Issue #153 - (12-6-05) Don't Reinstall RockSim, just RESET it.
Issue #154 - (12-30-05) CP's of Short and Fat Rockets in RockSim Part1.
Issue #155 - (1-17-06) Installing new motors in RockSim v8.
Issue #156 - (2-2-06) Merging new parts into your RockSim database.
Issue #157 - (2-22-06) Exporting a graph from RockSim for school reports
Issue #158 - (3-14-06) Creating Short/Fat Rockets in RockSim, Part 2
Issue #159 - (3-29-06) Pick the right ejection delay
Issue #162 - (6-15-06) Simulating UFO and Cube Rockets in RockSim
Issue #162 - (6-15-06) Quick way to reload motors in RockSim
Issue #163 - (7-14-06) How-To Info: Using RockSim's 2D Flight Profile
Issue #168 - (10-05-06) Using SMARTSim 2.0's Batch Processing Feature Part 1
Issue #169 - (10-26-06) Using SMARTSim 2.0' to gain an edge in TARC part 2
Issue #172 - (12-07-06) Advanced RockSim Technique: How to create a nested boattail
in a 2-stage rocket
Issue #176 - (1-30-07) How To Set Up Multiple Flight Events In RockSim
Issue #178 - (2-28-07) Take Better Aerial Photos By Using RockSim
Issue #180 - (3-23-07) Dr. Zooch's Flame-Fins stabilize rockets.
Issue #182 - (4-24-07) RockSim Technique: How To Put A Payload Bay Inside A Nose Cone
Issue #191 - (8-28-07) Putting a parachute inside of a nose cone.
Issue #192 - (9-11-07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Moment Of Inertia
Issue #192 - (9-11-07) How to put a bulkhead inside a tube coupler in RockSim 8
Issue #193 - (9-25-07) Why does the CP moves back when fins made smaller?
Issue #194 - (10-09-07) What is a Sustainer?
Issue #195 - (10-23-07) Which Delay Time Should I Use In RockSim?
Issue #196 - (11/06/07) How do you know if your payload bay is big enough to carry your egg?
Issue #198 - (12/04/07) Why does RockSim ask you for the latitude of the launch site?
Issue #200 - (01/10/08) Tips on finding Optimum Mass
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) What does optimum delay time mean?
Issue #202 - (02/12/08) Batch Processing RockSim with your favorite motors
Issue #210 - (06/03/08) Air Starting Motors and Adding Fake Tubes to reposition a rocket's CP
Issue #211 - (06/17/08) How to apply decals on the 3D rocket in rockSim
Issue #212 - (07/01/08) Toggle on/off the mass override feature
Issue #214 - (07/29/08) Step-by-Step RockSim procedure to calculate the maximum lift-off weight of a rocket motor
Issue #214 - (07/29/08) Sample decal files applied to scale models
Issue #216 - (08/26/08) Setting up delay times when staging High-Power motors
Issue #217 - (09/09/08) How to add a transition at the front end of a booster stage
Issue #219 - (10/06/08) How to perform water rocket experiments in RockSim
Issue #219 - (10/06/08) Make a ducted rocket where the air flows through the body.
Issue #221 - (11/04/08) Preview of the new features in RockSim v9
Issue #226 - (1/13/09) Simulating Canted Rocket Motors in RockSim
Issue #229 - (2/24/09) How to Set Up A Multi-Stage Rocket and Delayed Staging in RockSim (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #230 - (3/10/09) Tube Fins in RockSim v9
Issue #230 - (3/10/09) How to view RockSim's Help Manual
Issue #232 - (4/7/09) How to create polyhedral wings in RockSim v9
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) When Does Deceleration Really Begin?
Issue #238 - (6/30/09) What is the difference between the RockSim Method and the Barrowman Equations?
Issue #239 - (7/14/09) Why do tall and skinny rockets go unstable?
Issue #241 - (8/11/09) How to add new parts to your RockSim databases
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) Selecting the right size streamer for your rocket using RockSim
Issue #249 - (12/1/09) How To Zero In on The TARC Altitude and Duration Objectives
Issue #250 - (12/15/09) How To Use RockSim to set The Mach Delay Feature on Altimeters.
Issue #251 - (12/29/09) How to add a standoff launch lug to RockSim v9
Issue #253 - (1/26/10) Experimenting with Dynamic Stability Analysis
Issue #255 - (2/23/10) What do the Torque vectors mean in the 2D flight profile.

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