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Educational
    • 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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?