Model Rocket Glossary
On this page, you'll find links to other sites that have glossaries that are useful for model rockets.

Model Rocket Glossary (Links)

Model Rocket Design & Construction contains the most extensive glossary of rocketry terms.

http://www.kosmos.demon.co.uk/rocketry/glossary.html Short glossary, by a UK rocketry club. Has some good slang terms used in Britain.


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http://modelrockets.8m.com/terms.html Short glossary of terms (elementary level)

http://www.execpc.com/~culp/space/glossary.html Glossary of rocketry terms

http://www.dars.org/Rocketry/glossind.htm Glossary.

http://w3.nai.net/~stuckman/html/terminology.html Rocket glossary

http://www.iarocketry.org/documents/glossary.pdf Glossary of rocketry terms

http://hometown.aol.com/roktrabt/glossabc.html Another Rocket Glossary - a bit of tounge-in-cheek slang terms. Fun to read if you have the time.


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