Flying Tips for Model Rockets
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Apogee Technical Publication #9 "Analyzing a Model Rocket's Flight." This report describes in detail how to study a rockets flight, and how to extract useful data from the launch. This is great for teaching perception, and cause and effect. Motor Retention techniques for mid-power model rockets. You do not need an engine hook to hold the motor in the model. Read this article to find out the cheap alternative. A simple pre-launch checklist for model rockets; this one from a girl scout page. For articles on this subject check out the Peak of Flight index. This is a list, by topic, of all of the great articles the Peak of Flight put out over the years. |
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 If you find any dead links, don't give up. Try using the Wayback Machine! It will allow you to read the text of old web sites that may not be active any longer. http://www.archive.org
To use the WayBack Machine, you may need to cut and past the URL into the web site. If you find more links that are needing to be moved here, please let us know! Advice for launching with groups of small kids If you are serious about rocketry, you'll need to be concerned with the wind. This article from Scientific American tells how to build and measure wind speed with a hot ball anemometry. |
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