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Issue #1 (4/16/00) - How are your flying skills?
Issue #2 (4/23/00) - Preview of RockSim v5.0
Issue #3 (4/30/00) - Recreating Estes' Discontinued Motors
Issue #4 (5/7/00) - Dethermalizers for Parachute Models
Issue #5 (5/14/00) - What is an overstable rocket?
Issue #6 (5/21/00) - Contest Flying Preparations
Issue #7 (5/28/00) - Rocketry Education
Issue #8 (6/4/00) - The Bat Wing Boost Gldier
Issue #9 (6/11/00) - The History of Body Tubes
Issue #10 (6/18/00) - Altitude Flying Strategies
Issue #11 (6/25/00) - Adding New Motor Files to RockSim
Issue #12 (7/2/00) - The Soaring Method of Birds
Issue #13 (7/9/00) - How to Get Your Donation Request Thrown in the Trash-can
Issue #14 (7/16/00) - Who are the heroes?
Issue #15 (8/13/00) - Flying wings in model rocketry
Issue #16 (8/20/00) - Exporting data from RockSim and finding optimum trajectories
Issue #17 (8/27/00) - Coloring Balsa wood with RIT dye
Issue #18 (9/3/00) - Exploring the Cardboard Cut-out Method of CP Prediction
Issue #19 (9/10/00) - Getting Media Coverage for Your Rocketry Event
Issue #19 Suppliment #2 (9-10-00) - Newspaper clipping #1 of NARAM-2000 media coverage
Issue #19 Suppliment #3 (9-10-00) - Newspaper clipping #2 of NARAM-2000 media coverage.
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 #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 #25 - (10-22-00) The Really Big Show - A description of the National Model &
Hobby Show
Issue #26 - (10-29-00) What Makes for an Interesting Launch Report Article.
Issue #27 - (11-5-00) Simulating Ring Tail Fins in RockSim v4.0
Issue #28 - (11-12-00) Slow Roasted Rockets; the "hibachi effect" explained.
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 #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 #35 - (12-31-00) Speeding up your RockSim Simulations
Issue #36 - (1-14-01) The Hardest Step in Designing a Rocket
Issue #37 - (1-20-01) Flop-Tip Helicopter Model Plans
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 #41 - (2-25-01) Building a Rocket Company
Issue #42 - (3-4-01) Why do Rockets go Unstable?
Issue #42 Suppliment - Comments about Unstable Rockets
Issue #43 - (3-11-01) What Style of Rockets Do You Like?
Issue #44 - (3-18-01) Robert Goddard History - 75 years ago this week
Issue #45 - (3-31-01) Maximum Simulation Accuracy - Part 1
Issue #46 - (4-8-01) Maximum Simulation Accuracy - Part 2
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 #50 - (5-6-01) Fin Shapes Revisited
Issue #51 - (5-13-01) Using Rocketry Competions to Increase Club Participation
Issue #52 - (5-20-01) Survey Results (and what it means to you)
Issue #53 - (5-27-01) Why Does the Swing Test Fail?
Issue #54 - (6-17-01) Rocketry E-Books?
Issue #55 - (6-24-01) Building a Hybrid Motor in RockSim
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 #58 - (7-22-01) Saturn 1B and V Test-Launch Report
Issue #59 - (7-31-01) The Moving Target Called "Optimum Delay"
Issue #60 - (8-19-01) Smarter Guessing and Simulating With RockSim 5
Issue #61 - (9-4-01) Political Correctness In Rocketry Competitions
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 #64 - (10-5-01) Simulating Dual Deployment In RockSim (part 1)
Issue #65 - (10-16-01) Simulating Dual Deployment In RockSim (part 2)
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 #70 - (12-14-01) High Acceleration Numbers in RockSim
Issue #71 - (12-29-01) Attaching Vacuum Form Wraps on the Saturn Rockets
Issue #72 - (1-20-02) What does Better Mean? Does it always mean "Higher Altitudes?"
Issue #73 - (1-29-02) What is CNa? Part 1 (PDF document - 600K download)
Issue #74 - (2-08-02) What is CNa? Part 2 (PDF document - 500K download)
Issue #75 - (2-15-02) Designing High-Altitude Rockets (PDF document - 500K download)
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 #78 - (3-22-02) Mass override features of RockSim
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 #81 - (5-17-02) Launching Model Rockets in Space
Issue #82 - (5-31-02) Sci-Fi Adventures - Four stories from our readers
Issue #83 - (6-14-02) Spin Doctor Helicopter Model
Issue #84 - (6-28-02) Optimum Mass versus Peak Delay Time Mass?
Issue #85 - (7-19-02) Reasons Why We Love Rockets
Issue #86 - (8-1-02) Stability of Short, Stubby Rockets
Issue #87 - (8-19-02) Tool Plan - Make foam nose cones!
Issue #88 - (9-16-02) How to find the maximum speed your rocket can withstand.
Issue #89 - (9-27-02) How to start a rocketry company: A History of Apogee Components
Issue #90 - (10-11-02) Winning the $50,000 Team America Rocketry Challenge
Issue #91 - (10-28-02) Electronic Staging of Composite Propellant Rocket Motors
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 #95 - (12-27-02) Motor Rentention for Minimum Diameter Rockets
Issue #96 - (1-10-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 1
Issue #97 - (1-31-03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 2
(PDF document 1.2 MB)
Issue #98 - (2-14-03) How Multi-Stage Model Rockets work - Part 1 (PDF document 880K)
Issue #99 - (2-28-03) How Mutli-Stage Model Rockets Work - Part 2 (PDF document 884K)
Issue #100 - (3-21-03) What does "Rocket Science" mean? (High Resolution PDF - 2.05 MB)
Issue #101 - (4-4-03) Why do simulations show unstable descents? (PDF document 836K)
Issue #102 - (4-18-03) Running Quick-and-Dirty Simulations - PDF document 496K)
Issue #103 - (5-16-03) Determining Base Drag on a rocket (700K pdf)
Issue #104 - (6-1-03) How to design and build engine mounts (652K pdf)
Issue #105 - (6-13-03) Designing Rockets with Asymmetrical fins (620K pdf)
Issue #106 - (7-3-03) Newton's Laws of Motion, and How Rockets work (390K pdf)
Issue #107 - (7-25-03) Selecting the right beginner level kit
Issue #108 - (8-4-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 1 (1.35MB pdf)
Issue #109 - (8-22-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 2 (983K pdf)
Issue#110 - (9-12-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 3 (2.1MB pdf)
Issue #111 - (9-30-03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 4 (1.7 MB pdf)
Issue #112 - (10-10-03) Rocketry Education - Cross-curriculum examples (795K pdf)
Issue #113 - (10-27-03) Simulationg fins-on-fins in RockSim (532K pdf)
Issue #113 - (10-27-03) How to use bulkheads in rockets (532K pdf)
Issue #114 - (11-7-03) Simple hand tools that will save you money (684K pdf)
Issue #114 Poster - How Black Powder Rocket Motors work
Issue #115 - (11-21-03) Designing a simple glider using RockSim 7 (668K pdf)
Issue #115 Poster - How Composite propellant rocket motors work
Issue #116 - (12-5-03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #1 (739K pdf)
Issue #117 - (12-19-03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #2 (960K pdf)
Issue #117 Poster - Phases of a Model Rocket's Flight
Issue #118 - (1-12-04) Creating Subassemblies in RockSim (572K pdf)
Issue #119 - (1-27-04) Simulation of Side Pods in RockSim v7.0 (799K pdf)
Issue #120 - (2-15-04) Parts of a Model Rocket (824K pdf)
Issue #121 - (3-15-04) Cutting body tubes at angles - make your own cutting pattern sheet (1.4M pdf)
Issue #122 - (3-26-04) Simulating Foam-filled parts in RockSim (940K pdf)
Issue #123 - (4-9-04) How to Add Decals and Decoration to your RockSim Designs (688K pdf)
Issue #124 - (4-26-04) Differences between chuck-gliders and rocket boosted gliders
(340K pdf)
Issue #125 - (5-17-04) How To Make Simulated Nozzles To Add Pizzaz To Your Rockets
(466K pdf)
Issue #126 - (6-10-04) Common Misconceptions About Centering Rings (740K pdf)
Issue #127 - (7-5-04) How To Design and Construct Oblique Nose Cones (588K pdf)
Issue #128 - (7-20-04) The Art and Science of Streamer Recovery
Issue #129 - (8-10-04) Using Ejection Charge Baffles (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #130 - (8-23-04) Optimizing Your Design Using SMARTSim (660K pdf)
Issue #131 - (9-17-04) The model rocket engine code explained (1MB pdf)
Issue #132 - (9-28-04) Selecting Rocket Motors: A Step-by-Step Proceedure (764 KB pdf)
Issue #133 - (10-11-04) What is "Static Margin?" (756 KB pdf)
Issue #134 - (11-01-04) SMARTSim Tips for design Optimization (724 KB pdf)
Issue #135 - (11-22-04) How To Make Your Own Rocket Motors (784 KB pdf)
Issue #136 - (12-13-04) Make Your Own Transition Sections (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #137 - (1-11-05) Designing a Parachute Compartment Into a Booster Stage (786K pdf)
Issue #138 - (2-2-05) How To Join Paper Transition Sections (1.4MB pdf)
Issue #139 - (2-24-05) What Is In A Rocket Engine Data File (800 KB pdf)
Issue #140 - (3-17-05) Hidden Features in RockSim v8 (688 KB pdf)
Issue #141 - (4-29-05) How To Create Complex Clusters In RockSim (1 MB pdf)
Issue #142 - (5-26-05) Attending an organized rocketry launch (752 K pdf)
Issue #143 - (6-10-05) Mood Lighting With RockSim - Part 1 (1 MB pdf)
Issue #144 - (6-27-05) Mood Lighting With RockSim - Part 2 (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #145 - (7-14-05) Level-1 Certification the Hard Way (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #146 - (8-1-05) Creating Sprites In RockSim (792K pdf)
Issue #147 - (8-22-05) How To Fill Body Tube Spirals (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #148 - (9-13-05) Speed Up RockSim's 2-D Flight Profile (828 K pdf)
Issue #149 - (10-7-05) Sizing Your Rocket's Parachute (968 K pdf)
Issue #150 - (10-24-05) Swivel Fins Do Fly Straight (792 K pdf)
Issue #151 - (11-7-05) Machine tools on your wish list (774 K pdf)
Issue #152 - (11-18-05) Aligning "In-Line" fins (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #153 - (12-6-05) Adding Parachutes to Boosters in RockSim (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #154 - (12-30-05) CP's of Short and Fat Rockets in RockSim (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #155 - (1-17-06) Interview with Tim Quigg (744 K pdf)
Issue #156 - (2-2-06) Rocketry in South America (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #157 - (2-22-06) Cold Power Rocketry (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #158 - (3-14-06) Creating Short/Fat Rockets in RockSim, Pt. 2 (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #159 - (3-29-06) Re-release of the Saturn V Rocket (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #160 - (4-24-06) Science Fairs: Tips on Winning (900 K pdf)
Issue #161 - (5-18-06) How To Finance A School Rocket Club (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #162 - (6-15-06) Simulating UFO and Cube Rockets in RockSim (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #163 - (7-14-06) How-To Info: Using RockSim's 2D Flight Profile (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #164 - (7-28-06) Precision vs. Accuracy when tracking rockets (976 K pdf)
Issue #165 - (8-15-06) Making Fin Slots With A Dremel (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #166 - (8-29-06) Working On The Tomahawk Cruise Missile (2.1 MB pdf)
Issue #167 - (9-12-06) Teen builds largest amateur rocket flown in Colorado (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #168 - (10-05-06) Using SMARTSim 2.0's Batch Processing Feature Part 1 (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #169 - (10-26-06) Using SMARTSim 2.0's Batch Processing Feature Part 2 (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #170 - (11-7-06) New Rocketry Items shown at the I-Hobby Expo (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #171 - (11-22-06) A Visit to A Rocket Education Conference (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #172 - (12-07-06) Advanced RockSim Technique: How to create a nested boattail in a
2-stage rocket (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #173 - (12-21-06) Rocketry Electronics Explained - Part 1 (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #174 - (1-4-07) Rocketry Electronics Explained - Part 2 (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #175 - (1-16-07) Coming Back Into Model Rocketry - (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #176 - (1-30-07) How To Set Up Multiple Flight Events In RockSim - (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #177 - (2-14-07) Rocketry Education in Norway - (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #178 - (2-28-07) Take Better Aerial Photos By Using RockSim - (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #179 - (3-13-07) Student Launch Initative Puts RockSim Past Mach 1 - (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #180 - (3-23-07) Dr. Zooch Rockets Uses RockSim - (880 K pdf)
Issue #181 - (4-10-07) Early days of Rocketry - (1.7 MB pdf)
Issue #182 - (4-24-07) RockSim Technique: How To Put A Payload Bay Inside A Nose Cone - (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #183 - (5-8-07) How to turn a flat parachute into a NASA style parachute - (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #184 - (5-22-07) Parachute folding techniques - (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #185 - (6-5-07) The Ultimate Rocketry Glue Guide: Part 1 - (1.8 MB pdf)
Issue #186 - (6-19-07) The Ultimate Rocketry Glue Guide: Part 2 - (1.9 MB pdf)
Issue #187 - (7-3-07) Parachute clusters and small rockets - (2.0 MB pdf)
Issue #188 - (7-17-07) Build a cold gas-piston ejection-baffle system - (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #189 - (7-31-07) VERTIKAL The only way is up! - (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #190 - (8-14-07) How To Get Started In Rocketry Education (1.7 MB pdf)
Issue #191 - (8-28-07) Oddchutes - Fun With Polygons (2.0 MB pdf)
Issue #192 - (9/11/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Moment Of Inertia (2.2 MB pdf)
Issue #193 - (9/25/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - The Corrective Moment Coefficient
(2.0 MB pdf)
Issue #194 - (10/09/07 Rotating Parachutes - (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #195 - (10/22/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Damping Moment Coefficient (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #196 - (11/06/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Radial Moment of Inertia and the Natural Frequency (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #197 - (11/06/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Damping Ratio (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #198 - (12/04/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Optimizing For Altitude (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #199 - (12/18/07) 20 Years of Rocketry Progress - The Top 7 Changes I've Seen Occur
in Rocketry (1 MB pdf)
Issue #200 - (01/10/08) Tips on finding Optimum Mass (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #201 - (01/29/08) Delay Time and Maximum Lift-Off Weight, and Making a boattail engine lock (2.0 MB pdf)
Issue #202 - (02/12/08) Batch Engine Files For RockSim and SMARTSIM (700 KB pdf)
Issue #203 - (02/26/08) Build a boattail rocket that is hookless (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #204 - (03/11/08) Trimming A Rocket Boosted Glider - Part 1 (800 KB pdf)
Issue #205 - (03/25/08) Trimming A Rocket Boosted Glider - Part 2 (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #206 - (04/08/08) Build a parawing gliding parachute - Part 1 (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #207 - (04/22/08) Build a parawing gliding parachute - Part 2 (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #208 - (05/06/08) Sleuthing Altimeter Data for Critical Answers (1.1 MB pdf)
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 #210 - (06/03/08) How to get your level 1 High-Power Certification (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #211 - (06/17/08) How to apply decals on the 3D rocket in rockSim (931 KB pdf)
Issue #212 - (07/01/08) 6 Ideas to grow your rocket club's membership - Part 1 (788 KB pdf)
Issue #212 - (also included) How to design a rear-ejection rocket (788 KB pdf)
Issue #213 - (07/15/08) 6 Ideas to grow your rocket club's membership - Part 2 (977 KB pdf)
Issue #214 - (07/29/08) Step-by-Step RockSim procedure to calculate the maximum lift-off weight of a rocket motor (746 KB pdf)
Issue #215 - (08/12/08) How to convert a plastic nose cone into a drag reducing boattail (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #216 - (08/26/08) Apollo Program: In the Rear View Mirror (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #217 - (09/09/08) Selecting motors based on flame effects (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #218 - (09/23/08) How to minimize igniter mis-fires (880 KB pdf)
Issue #219 - (10/06/08) Create Water Rockets in RockSim (964 KB pdf)
Issue #220 - (10/21/08) Can you create a stable two-finned rocket? (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #221 - (11/04/08) Preview of the new features in RockSim v9 (848 KB pdf)
Issue #222 - (11/18/08) Tracking Down Lost Rockets (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #223 - (12/2/08) Build a triangulation scope (912 KB pdf)
Issue #224 - (12/16/08) How to accelerate your complex rocket project (792 KB pdf)
Issue #225 - (12/30/08) Rocket Plan: Build G. Harry Stine's "Paradigm-5" (624 KB pdf)
Issue #226 - (1/13/09) Simulating Canted Rocket Motors in RockSim (832 KB pdf)
Issue #227 - (1/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter (840 KB pdf)
Issue #228 - (2/20/09) Why Spinning Rockets Fly Straighter (604 KB pdf)
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) Increase Tracking Precision With Vernier Scales (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #231 - (3/24/09) How rocketry can lead to a career as a rocket scientist (880 KB pdf)
Issue #232 - (4/7/09) How to create polyhedral wings in RockSim v9 (768 KB pdf)
Issue #233 - (4/21/09) Cleaning the grime from Launch Rails (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #234 - (5/5/09) Ten Rocketry Products For A New Manufacturer (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #235 - (5/19/09) Build a High Power Rail Launch Pad (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #236 - (6/2/09) Seven mistakes people make when teaching with rockets (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #237 - (6/16/09) Build a great science fair rocket (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #238 - (6/30/09) What is the difference between the RockSim Method and the Barrowman Equations? (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #239 - (7/14/09) Why do tall and skinny rockets go unstable? (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #240 - (7/28/09) How do electronic altimeters work? Part 1 (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #241 - (8/11/09) How to add new parts to your RockSim databases (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #242 - (8/25/09) How do electronic altimeters work? Part 2 (944 KB pdf)
Issue #243 - (9/8/09) Development of the Fly-Apart Rail Guides (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #244 - (9/22/09) Selecting the right size streamer for your rocket (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #245 - (10/6/09) Rocket Plan: the "Kink" Supperroc (1.3 MB pdf)
Issue #246 - (10/20/09) Educator's Plan: Build a Mechanical Accelerometer (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #247 - (11/03/09) Competition Plan: Build a Dual-Egglofting Rocket (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #248 - (11/17/09) Why Aren't There Fins on The Ares 1-X Rocket? (1.7 MB pdf)
Issue #249 - (12/1/09) How To Zero In on The TARC Altitude and Duration Objectives (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #250 - (12/15/09) Alternate method of applying paper skins to fins (880 KB pdf)
Issue #251 - (12/29/09) How to add a standoff launch lug to RockSim v9 (1.2 MB pdf)
Issue #252 - (1/10/10) Build an Inexpensive Wind Tunnel (1.1 MB pdf)
Issue #253 - (1/26/10) Experimenting with Dynamic Stability Analysis (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #254 - (2/09/10) How To Add a Camcorder to Your Rocket (736 KB pdf)
Issue #255 - (2/23/10) Superroc Flying strategies & Reader Questions (872 KB pdf)
Issue #256 - (3/9/10) Build an Easy and Inexpensive Vacuum Chamber (748 KB pdf)
Issue #257 - (3/23/10) How Altimeters Work - Part 3 (1.4 MB pdf)
Issue #258 - (4/05/10) Make A Simple Dual Deployment Rocket (1.0 MB pdf)
Issue #259 - (4/20/10) Build and alignment key into your long rockets (672 KB pdf)
Issue #260 - (5/4/10) Construct Functional Strap-on Booster Pods (912 KB pdf)
Issue #261 - (5/18/10) Draw a 3D Rocket using Google SketchUp (784 KB pdf)
Issue #262 - (6/1/10) Mathematics In Amateur Rocketry (672 KB pdf)
Issue #263 - (6/15/10) Joining Cluster Tubes To A Single Tube (976 KB pdf)
Issue #264 - (6/29/10) Build Fiberglass Transition Sections (624 KB pdf)
Issue #265 - (7/13/10) Can You Hear The Sonic Boom From A Model Rocket? (1.1 MB pdf)

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