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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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Advanced Construction Videos

  • 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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