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Model Rocketry Newsletter "Peak Of Flight"
- Issue #001 - (04/16/00) How are your flying skills?
- Issue #002 - (04/23/00) Preview of RockSim v5.0
- Issue #003 - (04/30/00) Recreating Estes' Discontinued Motors
- Issue #004 - (05/07/00) Dethermalizers for Parachute Models
- Issue #005 - (05/14/00) What is an overstable rocket?
- Issue #006 - (05/21/00) Contest Flying Preparations
- Issue #007 - (05/28/00) Rocketry Education
- Issue #008 - (06/04/00) The Bat Wing Boost Glider
- Issue #009 - (06/11/00) The History of Body Tubes
- Issue #010 - (06/18/00) Altitude Flying Strategies
- Issue #011 - (06/25/00) Adding New Motor Files to RockSim
- Issue #012 - (07/02/00) The Soaring Method of Birds
- Issue #013 - (07/09/00) How to Get Your Donation Request Thrown in the Trash-can
- Issue #014 - (07/16/00) Who are the heroes?
- Issue #015 - (08/13/00) Flying wings in model rocketry
- Issue #016 - (08/20/00) Exporting data from RockSim and finding optimum trajectories
- Issue #017 - (08/27/00) Coloring Balsa wood with RIT dye
- Issue #018 - (09/03/00) Exploring the Cardboard Cut-out Method of CP Prediction
- Issue #019 - (09/10/00) Getting Media Coverage for Your Rocketry Event
- Issue #019 Supplement #2 - (09/10/00) Newspaper clipping #1 of NARAM-2000 media coverage
- Issue #019 Supplement #3 - (09/10/00) Newspaper clipping #2 of NARAM-2000 media coverage.
- Issue #020 - (09/17/00) How does Getting Your Hair Cut get You a New Launch Site?
- Issue #021 - (09/24/00) Recruiting and Retaining new Club Members.
- Issue #022 - (10/01/00) Educational Uses of the RockSim Software
- Issue #023 - (10/08/00) The RockSim Challenge - a test of skill and model rocketry knowledge.
- Issue #024 - (10/15/00) Predicting where your rocket will land using RockSim v4.0
- Issue #025 - (10/22/00) The Really Big Show - A description of the National Model & Hobby Show
- Issue #026 - (10/29/00) What Makes for an Interesting Launch Report Article.
- Issue #027 - (11/05/00) Simulating Ring Tail Fins in RockSim v4.0
- Issue #028 - (11/12/00) Slow Roasted Rockets; the "hibachi effect" explained.
- Issue #029 - (11/19/00) Useful tools for building rockets.
- Issue #030 - (11/26/00) Man vs Mother Nature; which is stronger, wood or composites?
- Issue #031 - (12/03/00) What is your Skill Level?
- Issue #032 - (12/10/00) Detecting and Using Thermals
- Issue #033 - (12/17/00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 1)
- Issue #034 - (12/24/00) Finding Maximum Liftoff Weight (part 2)
- Issue #035 - (12/31/00) Speeding up your RockSim Simulations
- Issue #036 - (01/14/01) The Hardest Step in Designing a Rocket
- Issue #037 - (01/20/01) Flop-Tip Helicopter Model Plans
- Issue #038 - (02/04/01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 1)
- Issue #039 - (02/11/01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 2)
- Issue #040 - (02/18/01) Selecting Rocket Motors (part 3)
- Issue #041 - (02/25/01) Building a Rocket Company
- Issue #042 - (03/04/01) Why do Rockets go Unstable?
- Issue #042 Supplement - Comments about Unstable Rockets
- Issue #043 - (03/11/01) What Style of Rockets Do You Like?
- Issue #044 - (03/18/01) Robert Goddard History - 75 years ago this week
- Issue #045 - (03/31/01) Maximum Simulation Accuracy - Part 1
- Issue #046 - (04/08/01) Maximum Simulation Accuracy - Part 2
- Issue #047 - (04/15/01) Piston Launchers Explained
- Issue #048 - (04/22/01) Making Your Own Electric Matches
- Issue #049 - (04/29/01) Why No Composite Propellant Booster Motors?
- Issue #050 - (05/06/01) Fin Shapes Revisited
- Issue #051 - (05/13/01) Using Rocketry Competitions to Increase Club Participation
- Issue #052 - (05/20/01) Survey Results (and what it means to you)
- Issue #053 - (05/27/01) Why Does the Swing Test Fail?
- Issue #054 - (06/17/01) Rocketry E-Books?
- Issue #055 - (06/24/01) Building a Hybrid Motor in RockSim
- Issue #056 - (07/01/01) Adhesives for Skill Level 5 Kits
- Issue #057 - (07/08/01) How to Destroy A Perfectly Good Rocket Kit
- Issue #058 - (07/22/01) Saturn 1B and V Test-Launch Report
- Issue #059 - (07/31/01) The Moving Target Called "Optimum Delay"
- Issue #060 - (08/19/01) Smarter Guessing and Simulating With RockSim 5
- Issue #061 - (09/04/01) Political Correctness In Rocketry Competitions
- Issue #062 - (09/20/01) Rocket Origami
- Issue #063 - (09/26/01) How To Use Paper to Make Centering Rings for High-Power Rockets
- Issue #064 - (10/05/01) Simulating Dual Deployment In RockSim (part 1)
- Issue #065 - (10/16/01) Simulating Dual Deployment In RockSim (part 2)
- Issue #066 - (10/23/01) Tools needed for the Saturn V kit
- Issue #067 - (11/08/01) Painting the Corrugations on the Saturn V kit?
- Issue #068 - (11/19/01) Pressure Relief Holes
- Issue #069 - (12/02/01) Characteristics of Balsa Wood
- Issue #070 - (12/14/01) High Acceleration Numbers in RockSim
- Issue #071 - (12/29/01) Attaching Vacuum Form Wraps on the Saturn Rockets
- Issue #072 - (01/20/02) What does Better Mean? Does it always mean "Higher Altitudes?"
- Issue #073 - (01/29/02) What is CNa? (Part 1)
- Issue #074 - (02/08/02) What is CNa? (Part 2)
- Issue #075 - (02/15/02) Designing High-Altitude Rockets
- Issue #076 - (02/22/02) Suggestions for a young leader in a rocket club
- Issue #077 - (03/08/02) Starting your own rocketry club & a FREE poster!
- Issue #078 - (03/22/02) Mass override features of RockSim
- Issue #079 - (04/05/02) Does fin thickness affect the rocket's CP location?
- Issue #080 - (05/03/02) Does the CP location change when you upscale a rocket?
- Issue #081 - (05/17/02) Launching Model Rockets in Space
- Issue #082 - (05/31/02) Sci-Fi Adventures - Four stories from our readers
- Issue #083 - (06/14/02) Spin Doctor Helicopter Model
- Issue #084 - (06/28/02) Optimum Mass versus Peak Delay Time Mass?
- Issue #085 - (07/19/02) Reasons Why We Love Rockets
- Issue #086 - (08/01/02) Stability of Short, Stubby Rockets
- Issue #087 - (08/19/02) Tool Plan - Make foam nose cones!
- Issue #088 - (09/16/02) How to find the maximum speed your rocket can withstand.
- Issue #089 - (09/27/02) How to start a rocketry company: A History of Apogee Components
- Issue #090 - (10/11/02) Winning the $50,000 Team America Rocketry Challenge
- Issue #091 - (10/28/02) Electronic Staging of Composite Propellant Rocket Motors
- Issue #092 - (11/11/02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 1. Using Single Station Tracking
- Issue #093 - (11/27/02) How High Did the Rocket Go? - Part 2. Two-Station Tracking
- Issue #094 - (12/13/02) How To Start A School Rocketry Program
- Issue #095 - (12/27/02) Motor Retention for Minimum Diameter Rockets
- Issue #096 - (01/10/03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 1
- Issue #097 - (01/31/03) Designing Tumble Recovery Booster Stages - Part 2
- Issue #098 - (02/14/03) How Multi-Stage Model Rockets work - Part 1
- Issue #099 - (02/28/03) How Multi-Stage Model Rockets Work - Part 2
- Issue #100 - (03/21/03) What does "Rocket Science" mean?
- Issue #101 - (04/04/03) Why do simulations show unstable descents?
- Issue #102 - (04/18/03) Running Quick-and-Dirty Simulation
- Issue #103 - (05/16/03) Determining Base Drag on a rocket
- Issue #104 - (06/01/03) How to design and build engine mounts
- Issue #105 - (06/13/03) Designing Rockets with Asymmetrical fins
- Issue #106 - (07/03/03) Newton's Laws of Motion, and How Rockets work
- Issue #107 - (07/25/03) Selecting the right beginner level kit
- Issue #108 - (08/04/03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 1
- Issue #109 - (08/22/03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 2
- Issue #110 - (09/12/03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 3
- Issue #111 - (09/30/03) Simulating Strap-on Boosters in RockSim 7: Part 4
- Issue #112 - (10/10/03) Rocketry Education - Cross-curriculum examples
- Issue #113 - (10/27/03) Simulating fins-on-fins in RockSim
- Issue #113 - (10/27/03) How to use bulkheads in rockets
- Issue #114 - (11/07/03) Simple hand tools that will save you money
- Issue #114 Poster - How Black Powder Rocket Motors work
- Issue #115 - (11/21/03) Designing a simple glider using RockSim 7
- Issue #115 Poster - How Composite propellant rocket motors work
- Issue #116 - (12/05/03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #1
- Issue #117 - (12/19/03) Simulating Pop-Pod Boost Gliders In RockSim v7 #2
- Issue #117 Poster - Phases of a Model Rocket's Flight
- Issue #118 - (01/12/04) Creating Subassemblies in RockSim
- Issue #119 - (01/27/04) Simulation of Side Pods in RockSim v7.0
- Issue #120 - (02/15/04) Parts of a Model Rocket
- Issue #121 - (03/15/04) Cutting body tubes at angles - make your own cutting pattern sheet
- Issue #122 - (03/26/04) Simulating Foam-filled parts in RockSim
- Issue #123 - (04/09/04) How to Add Decals and Decoration to your RockSim Designs
- Issue #124 - (04/26/04) Differences between chuck-gliders and rocket boosted gliders
- Issue #125 - (05/17/04) How To Make Simulated Nozzles To Add Pizzazz To Your Rockets
- Issue #126 - (06/10/04) Common Misconceptions About Centering Rings
- Issue #127 - (07/05/04) How To Design and Construct Oblique Nose Cones
- Issue #128 - (07/20/04) The Art and Science of Streamer Recovery
- Issue #129 - (08/10/04) Using Ejection Charge Baffles
- Issue #130 - (08/23/04) Optimizing Your Design Using SMARTSim
- Issue #131 - (09/17/04) The model rocket engine code explained
- Issue #132 - (09/28/04) Selecting Rocket Motors: A Step-by-Step Procedure
- Issue #133 - (10/11/04) What is "Static Margin?"
- Issue #134 - (11/01/04) SMARTSim Tips for design Optimization
- Issue #135 - (11/22/04) How To Make Your Own Rocket Motors
- Issue #136 - (12/13/04) Make Your Own Transition Sections
- Issue #137 - (01/11/05) Designing a Parachute Compartment Into a Booster Stage
- Issue #138 - (02/02/05) How To Join Paper Transition Sections
- Issue #139 - (02/24/05) What Is In A Rocket Engine Data File
- Issue #140 - (03/17/05) Hidden Features in RockSim v8
- Issue #141 - (04/29/05) How To Create Complex Clusters In RockSim
- Issue #142 - (05/26/05) Attending an organized rocketry launch
- Issue #143 - (06/10/05) Mood Lighting With RockSim - Part 1
- Issue #144 - (06/27/05) Mood Lighting With RockSim - Part 2
- Issue #145 - (07/14/05) Level-1 Certification the Hard Way
- Issue #146 - (08/01/05) Creating Sprites In RockSim
- Issue #147 - (08/22/05) How To Fill Body Tube Spirals
- Issue #148 - (09/13/05) Speed Up RockSim's 2-D Flight Profile
- Issue #149 - (10/07/05) Sizing Your Rocket's Parachute
- Issue #150 - (10/24/05) Swivel Fins Do Fly Straight
- Issue #151 - (11/07/05) Machine tools on your wish list
- Issue #152 - (11/18/05) Aligning "In-Line" fins
- Issue #153 - (12/06/05) Adding Parachutes to Boosters in RockSim
- Issue #154 - (12/30/05) CP's of Short and Fat Rockets in RockSim
- Issue #155 - (01/17/06) Interview with Tim Quigg
- Issue #156 - (02/02/06) Rocketry in South America
- Issue #157 - (02/22/06) Cold Power Rocketry
- Issue #158 - (03/14/06) Creating Short/Fat Rockets in RockSim, Pt. 2
- Issue #159 - (03/29/06) Re-release of the Saturn V Rocket
- Issue #160 - (04/24/06) Science Fairs: Tips on Winning
- Issue #161 - (05/18/06) How To Finance A School Rocket Club
- Issue #162 - (06/15/06) Simulating UFO and Cube Rockets in RockSim
- Issue #163 - (07/14/06) How-To Info: Using RockSim's 2D Flight Profile
- Issue #164 - (07/28/06) Precision vs. Accuracy when tracking rockets
- Issue #165 - (08/15/06) Making Fin Slots With A Dremel
- Issue #166 - (08/29/06) Working On The Tomahawk Cruise Missile
- Issue #167 - (09/12/06) Teen builds largest amateur rocket flown in Colorado
- Issue #168 - (10/05/06) Using SMARTSim 2.0's Batch Processing Feature Part 1
- Issue #169 - (10/26/06) Using SMARTSim 2.0's Batch Processing Feature Part 2
- Issue #170 - (11/07/06) New Rocketry Items shown at the I-Hobby Expo
- Issue #171 - (11/22/06) A Visit to A Rocket Education Conference
- Issue #172 - (12/07/06) Advanced RockSim Technique: How to create a nested boat tail in a 2-stage rocket
- Issue #173 - (12/21/06) Rocketry Electronics Explained - Part 1
- Issue #174 - (01/04/07) Rocketry Electronics Explained - Part 2
- Issue #175 - (01/16/07) Coming Back Into Model Rocketry
- Issue #176 - (01/30/07) How To Set Up Multiple Flight Events In RockSim
- Issue #177 - (02/14/07) Rocketry Education in Norway - (1.3 MB pdf)
- Issue #178 - (02/28/07) Take Better Aerial Photos By Using RockSim
- Issue #179 - (03/13/07) Student Launch Initiative Puts RockSim Past Mach 1
- Issue #180 - (03/23/07) Dr. Zooch Rockets Uses RockSim
- Issue #181 - (04/10/07) Early days of Rocketry
- Issue #182 - (04/24/07) RockSim Technique: How To Put A Payload Bay Inside A Nose Cone
- Issue #183 - (05/08/07) How to turn a flat parachute into a NASA style parachute
- Issue #184 - (05/22/07) Parachute folding techniques
- Issue #185 - (06/05/07) The Ultimate Rocketry Glue Guide: Part 1
- Issue #186 - (06/19/07) The Ultimate Rocketry Glue Guide: Part 2
- Issue #187 - (07/03/07) Parachute clusters and small rockets
- Issue #188 - (07/17/07) Build a cold gas-piston ejection-baffle system
- Issue #189 - (07/31/07) VERTIKAL The only way is up!
- Issue #190 - (08/14/07) How To Get Started In Rocketry Education
- Issue #191 - (08/28/07) Oddchutes - Fun With Polygons
- Issue #192 - (09/11/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Moment Of Inertia
- Issue #193 - (09/25/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - The Corrective Moment Coefficient
- Issue #194 - (10/09/07) Rotating Parachutes
- Issue #195 - (10/22/07) 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 - (11/06/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Damping Ratio
- Issue #198 - (12/04/07) Basics Of Flight Analysis - Optimizing For Altitude
- Issue #199 - (12/18/07) 20 Years of Rocketry Progress - The Top 7 Changes I've Seen Occur in Rocketry
- Issue #200 - (01/10/08) Tips on finding Optimum Mass
- Issue #201 - (01/29/08) Delay Time and Maximum Lift-Off Weight, and Making a boat tail engine lock
- Issue #202 - (02/12/08) Batch Engine Files For RockSim and SMARTSIM
- Issue #203 - (02/26/08) Build a boat tail rocket that is hookless
- Issue #204 - (03/11/08) Trimming A Rocket Boosted Glider - Part 1
- Issue #205 - (03/25/08) Trimming A Rocket Boosted Glider - Part 2
- 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 #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
- Issue #210 - (06/03/08) How to get your level 1 High-Power Certification
- Issue #211 - (06/17/08) How to apply decals on the 3D rocket in RockSim
- Issue #212 - (07/01/08) 6 Ideas to grow your rocket club's membership - Part 1
- Issue #212 - (also included) How to design a rear-ejection rocket
- Issue #213 - (07/15/08) 6 Ideas to grow your rocket club's membership - Part 2
- Issue #214 - (07/29/08) Step-by-Step RockSim procedure to calculate the maximum lift-off weight of a rocket motor
- Issue #215 - (08/12/08) How to convert a plastic nose cone into a drag reducing boat tail
- Issue #216 - (08/26/08) Apollo Program: In the Rear View Mirror
- Issue #217 - (09/09/08) Selecting motors based on flame effects
- Issue #218 - (09/23/08) How to minimize igniter misfires
- Issue #219 - (10/06/08) Create Water Rockets in RockSim
- Issue #220 - (10/21/08) Can you create a stable two-finned rocket?
- Issue #221 - (11/04/08) Preview of the new features in RockSim v9
- Issue #222 - (11/18/08) Tracking Down Lost Rockets
- Issue #223 - (12/02/08) Build a triangulation scope
- Issue #224 - (12/16/08) How to accelerate your complex rocket project
- Issue #225 - (12/30/08) Rocket Plan: Build G. Harry Stine's "Paradigm-5"
- Issue #226 - (01/13/09) Simulating Canted Rocket Motors in RockSim
- Issue #227 - (01/27/09) Plan: Build a 13mm Engine Mount Adapter
- Issue #228 - (02/20/09) Why Spinning Rockets Fly Straighter
- Issue #229 - (02/24/09) How to Set Up A Multi-Stage Rocket and Delayed Staging in RockSim
- Issue #230 - (03/10/09) Increase Tracking Precision With Vernier Scales
- Issue #231 - (03/24/09) How rocketry can lead to a career as a rocket scientist
- Issue #232 - (04/07/09) How to create polyhedral wings in RockSim v9
- Issue #233 - (04/21/09) Cleaning the grime from Launch Rails
- Issue #234 - (05/05/09) Ten Rocketry Products For A New Manufacturer
- Issue #235 - (05/19/09) Build a High Power Rail Launch Pad
- Issue #236 - (06/02/09) Seven mistakes people make when teaching with rockets
- Issue #237 - (06/16/09) Build a great science fair rocket
- Issue #238 - (06/30/09) What is the difference between the RockSim Method and the Barrowman Equations?
- Issue #239 - (07/14/09) Why do tall and skinny rockets go unstable?
- Issue #240 - (07/28/09) How do electronic altimeters work? Part 1
- Issue #241 - (08/11/09) How to add new parts to your RockSim databases
- Issue #242 - (08/25/09) How do electronic altimeters work? Part 2
- Issue #243 - (09/08/09) Development of the Fly-Apart Rail Guides
- Issue #244 - (09/22/09) Selecting the right size streamer for your rocket
- Issue #245 - (10/06/09) Rocket Plan: the "Kink" Superroc
- 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 #248 - (11/17/09) Why Aren't There Fins on The Ares 1-X Rocket?
- Issue #249 - (12/01/09) How To Zero In on The TARC Altitude and Duration Objectives
- Issue #250 - (12/15/09) Alternate method of applying paper skins to fins
- Issue #251 - (12/29/09) How to add a standoff launch lug to RockSim v9
- Issue #252 - (01/10/10) Build an Inexpensive Wind Tunnel
- Issue #253 - (01/26/10) Experimenting with Dynamic Stability Analysis
- Issue #254 - (02/09/10) How To Add a Camcorder to Your Rocket
- Issue #255 - (02/23/10) Superroc Flying strategies & Reader Questions
- Issue #256 - (03/09/10) Build an Easy and Inexpensive Vacuum Chamber
- Issue #257 - (03/23/10) How Altimeters Work - Part 3
- Issue #258 - (04/05/10) Make A Simple Dual Deployment Rocket
- Issue #259 - (04/20/10) Build and alignment key into your long rockets
- Issue #260 - (05/04/10) Construct Functional Strap-on Booster Pods
- Issue #261 - (05/18/10) Draw a 3D Rocket using Google SketchUp
- Issue #262 - (06/01/10) Mathematics In Amateur Rocketry
- Issue #263 - (06/15/10) Joining Cluster Tubes To A Single Tube
- Issue #264 - (06/29/10) Build Fiberglass Transition Sections
- Issue #265 - (07/13/10) Can You Hear The Sonic Boom From A Model Rocket?
- Issue #266 - (08/10/10) Make Your Own Pyrotechnic Bolts
- Issue #267 - (08/24/10) Get Scale Data Quickly and Painlessly
- Issue #268 - (09/07/10) How to Light Up The Nozzles Of Your Saturn V
- Issue #269 - (09/21/10) Building Tips for the Condor Boost Glider
- Issue #270 - (10/05/10) Build A Fin Spacing Jig
- Issue #271 - (10/19/10) Sand Radial Taper into Fins
- Issue #272 - (11/02/10) How to add LED lights to your night-flying rockets
- Issue #273 - (11/09/10) How to overcome teacher resistance in using rockets in classrooms
- Issue #274 - (11/24/10) Paint Schemes: Ideas for Your Next Eye-Popping Rocket Decoration
- Issue #275 - (12/07/10) Applying Lessons Learned From Real Rockets
- Issue #275 - (12/07/10) What is your Plan B for flying in breezy conditions
- Issue #275 - (12/07/10) How To Create Tube Marking Guides In RockSim
- Issue #276 - (12/20/10) What Went Wrong in the Apollo 11 Moon Landing?
- Issue #277 - (01/04/11) How to Build Your Own Parachute Release Mechanism
- Issue #278 - (01/18/11) Rocketry Success With Disadvantaged Students
- Issue #279 - (02/01/11) Skydiving technology applied to rocketry's parachutes
- Issue #280 - (02/15/11) Airbrush-quality camouflage effects using simple spray paint cans.
- Issue #281 - (02/28/11) Advanced Finishing Tips To Enhance The Appearance Of Your Rockets
- Issue #282 - (03/14/11) Make Your Own Anti-Zipper Harness For Kevlar® Shock Cords
- Issue #283 - (03/28/11) Using Rocketry Components to Teach Collegiate Engineering Analysis
- Issue #284 - (04/12/11) Flying The Apogee Saturn V Kit On High Power Motors.
- Issue #285 - (04/26/11) Thrust, Impulse, and Power: What Do They Really Mean?
- Issue #286 - (05/10/11) How to Achieve Extreme Altitude Deployment
- Issue #288 - (06/07/11) Construction Ideas for Electronic’s Bays
- Issue #289 - (06/21/11) Tips for Constructing Electronically Staged Mid-Power Rockets
- Issue #290 - (07/05/11) How to Avoid Zippered Body Tube
- Issue #291 - (07/19/11) How to Calculate Fin Flutter Speed
- Issue #292 - (08/02/11) Using Video to Measure a Rocket's Speed
- Issue #293 - (08/16/11) How To Mount The AltimeterTwo For Maximum Performance, High-G Flights
- Issue #294 - (08/30/11) What are the Best Launch Conditions for High Altitude Flights?
- Issue #295 - (09/13/11) The True Story of Apollo 12’s Near Abort Less Than a Minute After Launch
- Issue #296 - (09/27/11) Simulating Angular Airframe Tubes in RockSim v9 - Part 1
- Issue #297 - (10/11/11) Simulating Angular Airframe Tubes in RockSim v9 - Part 2
- Issue #298 - (10/25/11) How To Get An Award-Winning Finish On Your Rockets
- Issue #299 - (11/08/11) How To Quickly and Easily Cut Lots Of Body Tubes To Length
- Issue #300 - (11/22/11) Simulating a 2-Stage Saturn V in RockSim
- Issue #301 - (12/06/11) How to Keep 2-Stage Rockets Flying Low for Small-Field Recovery
- Issue #302 - (12/20/11) Building Apogee’s 1/70th Apollo Saturn 1B
- Issue #303 - (01/03/12) How To Determine The Drag Coefficient of Your Rockets
- Issue #304 - (01/17/12) The Mathematics of Spiral Wound Body Tubes
- Issue #305 - (01/31/12) Why Should You Airfoil Your Rocket’s Fins?
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- Video 01 - (01/19/09) Add Spin Tabs to Your Rocket's Fins
- Video 02 - (02/02/09) Angle Edges to Create Better Joints
- Video 03 - (01/29/09) Slot Body Tubes For Through-The-Wall Fins
- Video 04 - (02/14/09) How To Mount An Altimeter Into A Small Rocket
- Video 05 - (02/14/09) How To Cut To Length Large Diameter Body Tubes
- Video 06 - (03/01/09) How To Cut To Length Small Diameter Body Tubes
- Video 07 - (03/29/09) How To Strengthen Centering Rings
- Video 08 - (04/08/09) Make Your Own Tube Couplers
- Video 09 - (04/28/09) Make Your Own Payload Bay
- Video 10 - (05/12/09) Transition Section Construction - Part 1
- Video 11 - (05/26/09) Transition Section Construction - Part 2
- Video 12 - (06/08/09) Transition Section Construction - Part 3
- Video 13 - (06/23/09) Transition Section Construction - Part 4
- Video 14 - (07/07/09) How To Prep A Rocket For Launch
- Video 15 - (07/21/09) Build a Hookless Motor-Mount Adapter
- Video 16 - (08/04/09) How To Apply Paper Skin To Balsa Wood Fins
- Video 17 - (08/18/09) How To Restrain Rocket Engines
- Video 18 - (09/01/09) How Do Piston Launchers Work?
- Video 19 - (09/13/09) How To Assemble A Reloadable Motor
- Video 20 - 0(9/29/09) How To Use A Motor Mount Adapter
- Video 21 - (10/13/09) How To Print Out A Full Size Drawing Of Your RockSim Design
- Video 22 - (11/10/09) How To Build Your Canted, Clustered-Engine Rocket (Part 1)
- Video 23 - (11/10/09) How To Build Your Canted, Clustered-Engine Rocket (Part 2)
- Video 24 - (11/24/09) How To Cut Your Own Centering Rings
- Video 25 - (12/09/09) How To Make Conformal Parts
- Video 26 - (12/22/09) Setting Up Dual Deployment Rockets - Part 1 of 5
- Video 27 - (01/05/10) Setting Up Dual Deployment Rockets - Part 2 of 5
- Video 28 - (01/05/10) Setting Up Dual Deployment Rockets - Part 3 of 5
- Video 29 - (01/18/10) Setting Up Dual Deployment Rockets - Part 4 of 5
- Video 30 - (01/18/10) Setting Up Dual Deployment Rockets - Part 5 of 5
- Video 31 - (02/02/10) Preventing Long Shock Cords From Tangling
- Video 32 - (02/16/10) How to Select Model Rocket Engines - Part 1 of 2
- Video 33 - (03/02/10) How to Select Model Rocket Engines - Part 2 of 2
- Video 34 - (03/16/10) How to Decorate Your Model Rockets With Tunnel Covers
- Video 35 - (03/30/10) How to Fold a Mylar Streamer
- Video 36 - (03/30/10) How to Attach A Streamer To Your Rocket
- Video 37 - (04/13/10) Add Texture To Your Model Rocket To Add Visual Stimulation
- Video 38 - (04/27/10) Attaching Strings to Parachutes When Helping Children
- Video 39 - (05/11/10) Teaching Rocketry: Design A Rocket
- Video 40 - (05/25/10) How Altimeters Work - A Tutorial
- Video 41 - (06/08/10) How To Join Tubes Together
- Video 42 - (06/21/10) How To Use Altitude Tracking Scopes
- Video 43 - (07/08/10) How To Fill Body Tube Spirals
- Video 44 - (07/20/10) Strengthening Plastic Parachutes
- Video 45 - (08/17/10) Tracking Rockets Using GPS
- Video 46 - (08/31/10) Preventing Zippered Body Tubes
- Video 47 - (09/27/10) Using Single-Use Motors In Aerotech Kits
- Video 49 - (10/27/10) Helicopter Rockets
- Video 50 - (11/16/10) Rocketry in the Classroom
- Video 51 - (11/30/10) AltimeterOne Update
- Video 52 - (12/14/10) Tracking Altitude Inexpensively using an Inclinometer
- Video 53 - (12/28/10) Using 18mm retainers in rockets
- Video 54 - (01/11/11) Using 18mm engine adapters in rockets
- Video 55 - (01/25/11) How to Drill Holes in Model Rocket Tubes
- Video 56 - (02/08/11) Transformers: Rockets that Change Shape in Flight
- Video 57 - (02/22/11) Adding a Parachute Loop to fiberglass nose cones
- Video 58 - (03/08/11) How to Use the Estes Tube & Fin Marking Guide
- Video 59 - (03/29/11) Building a Rogallo Wing, Rocket Boosted Glider
- Video 60 - (04/05/11) Introduction to High Power Rockets for Level 1 Certification
- Video 61 - (04/19/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 1, Motor Mount Construction
- Video 62 - (05/03/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 2, Motor Mount Installation
- Video 63 - (05/17/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 3, Fin Installation
- Video 64 - (05/31/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 4, Rail Button Installation
- Video 65 - (06/14/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 5, Fin Fillets
- Video 66 - (06/28/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 6, Building & Installing Your Altimeter Bay, Step 1
- Video 67 - (07/12/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 7, Building & Installing Your Altimeter Bay, Step 2
- Video 68 - (07/26/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 8, Painting on Primer
- Video 69 - (08/09/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 9, Sanding the Primer coats
- Video 70 - (08/23/11) How To Assemble A Launch Rod
- Video 71 - (09/06/11) Building Your First High Power Rocket - Part 10, Finishing & Flying
- Video 72 - (09/20/11) Add Polyhedral Wings to a Rocket Boosted Glider
- Video 73 - (10/04/11) Using the Wireless Launch Controller
- Video 74 - (10/18/11) Using the Guillotine Fin Jig
- Video 75 - (11/01/11) Create A Model Rocket Fin Spacing Guide
- Video 76 - (11/15/11) Make a Paper Nose Cone for a Model Rocket - Pt. 1
- Video 77 - (11/29/11) Make a Paper Nose Cone for a Model Rocket - Pt. 2
- Video 78 - (12/13/11) Make a Paper Nose Cone for a Model Rocket - Pt. 3
- Video 79 - (12/27/11) How the Heli-Roc Nose Cone is Made
- Video 80 - (01/10/12) How To Repair Broken Fins
- Video 81 - (01/24/12) How To Repair a Zippered Body Tube
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