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Flying Tips for Model Rockets

On this page, you'll find links to other sites that have flying tips and and launching strategy for model rockets.

Rocket Flying (Information Links)

Apogee Technical Publication #9 "Analyzing a Model Rocket's Flight." This report describes in detail how to study a rockets flight, and how to extract useful data from the launch. This is great for teaching perception, and cause and effect.

Motor Retention techniques for mid-power model rockets. You do not need an engine hook to hold the motor in the model. Read this article to find out the cheap alternative.

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/programs/g-scouts/space1.html A simple pre-launch checklist for model rockets; this one from a girl scout page.

For articles on this subject check out the Peak of Flight index. This is a list, by topic, of all of the great articles the Peak of Flight put out over the years.

Check the links below in www.archive.org
Wayback Machine

The links below are known to be dead. They did contain some great and useful information. Fortunately, they can still be accessed in a web archive. The text will be present, but the graphic images may be lost.

To use the WayBack Machine, you may need to cut and past the URL into the web site http://www.archive.org. If you find any other dead links, don't give up. Try using the Wayback Machine! Please be patient, as the Wayback Machine can be slow...

http://w3.nai.net/~stuckman/html/kids.html Advice for launching with groups of small kids

http://earth.thesphere.com/SAS/SciAm/1995/HotBall.html If you are serious about rocketry, you'll need to be concerned with the wind. This article from Scientific American tells how to build and measure wind speed with a hot ball anemometry.

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This page last updated on: 02/22/08