Aspire

There is another benefit to owning an Apogee Aspire kit. While it has a decent size to it, the rocket is well under a pound at lift-off. It doesn't require a special waiver to launch. Wherever or whatever launch you go to, the Apogee Aspire rocket is a legal model rocket. So when there is no waiver and you can't take out your honking-huge rockets, you can still get that overpowering giddy feeling of reaching fantastic heights and getting people to notice what you've done. You'll come home with a nice smug feeling, knowing you wowed a lot of folks.

The Apogee Aspire is also an easy-to-assemble rocket. If you're pressed for time and need to build several different rockets for the launch this coming weekend, you'll find that it goes together quickly. You'll probably finish it in half an evening, giving yourself plenty of time to work on other rocket projects too.

If you are a parent, and you want to give your kids a bigger rocket to work on, the Apogee Aspire is a great choice. As your child builds it, they will learn the basic guiding principles of rocketry, so that you will be able to tackle other rockets that are more complex and daring.

The kit has all the classic components that will teach younger rocketeers how to build true aeronautical vehicles. This includes a sleek plastic nose cone, precision die-cut balsa fins, water-slide decals, and high-quality kraft paper tubes. The rocket also comes with a long chrome-silver streamer, so you can easily see the rocket on its ultra-high flights.

The rocket can also us a wide variety of motors and it does come with an adapter to use the 24mm C, D, and E rocket motors. So if you don't want to launch the rocket into orbit, you can simply choose a smaller rocket engine.

This rocket is a real value at its price. It is the only model rocket kit on the market that can fly over a mile high on a single, inexpensive, F motor. Most high power kits with this capability cost more than $60, and then you still have to use bigger, more expensive rocket engines.

Remember that last launch you went to when there just didn't seem to be any rockets that inspired you? Everything being flown was woosh-pop, whoosh-pop, whoosh-pop. Even the big stuff didn't seem all that impressive. Sure, it made a deeper whoosh, but it just didn't seem to make heads turn and get people to say 'wow.'

Now I would like you to picture a scene where people come racing back to your prep area after you just got back from launching your Apogee Aspire rocket kit. They will all want to know what the heck was "that" thing.

They weren't paying much attention to the rockets being flown, but all of a sudden, they heard something very unique. The rocket that made the commotion just kept going, and going, and going. It just didn't seem to want to quit.

When they looked up, all they saw was a long thin wisp of smoke that reached from the ground to an astonishing height. They gasped. "That thing must be more than a mile high," they tell the guy next to them.

Do you want to wake up and then blow the minds of spectators at your next rocket launch? Then put up the Apogee Aspire rocket. It slices its way to over a mile high.

What is a RockSim Design file?

The RockSim software gives you a lot of information about the flight characteristics of this rocket: how high, how fast, where it will land, how will it react to wind, etc. The "design file" is intended to save you time. All the parameters (size, shape, weight, fin design, etc.) of this rocket have already been entered into the RockSim program, and saved as an electronic database file. You can just open it up in your copy of RockSim and start loading different rocket motors to run launch simulations. It's fun and educational to see the rocket zoom skyward, even before you built it. For more information about RockSim and to download a FREE 30-day demo version, click here.