[NAR_FAI_Spacemodeling] 2016 US Team featured in the slide show at the top of the FAI aeromodelling web page
There’s even a quote by Ashley Van Milligan
Month: September 2016
NARCON 2014 great photo Link
Here are some great photos from the 2014 NARCON:
NARCON 2016 was great and NARCON 2017 will be even better
If anyone wants to check out a NAR Convention, they definitely should. They are well worth the time and travel.
YouTube Items of Interest
The biggest HPR launch of a Saturn V rocket: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwvjPPOR3IM
BFR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nahu9h1fitc&feature=player_embedded
Other interesting Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoYPxuCPY2U&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-CyIBlKNs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79UO4HOQmc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vPbmgyWmnU&feature=player_embedded
PEPCON Explosion in 1988
Great site for Rocket Hobby people
Record your flights online and with your Smart Phone
If you would like to record your flights on line or while you are at the field here is a good site where you can do both:
http://www.rocketreviews.com/home-page.html
Daniels Pershing 1A on an F24-4 reload
How Rockets Work by National Geopraphic
National Geographic video on Rockets
JONNY PHILLIPS Of all the different methods of propulsion invented by mankind, for pure, unadulterated, heart stopping excitement nothing really compares to rockets.
RICHARD AMBROSE: OK – I am about to initiate the launch sequence. Now stand right back and witness the explosive power of rocketry. Whoa!
JONNY PHILLIPS (SYNC – TO RICHARD): Um – I think we’re gonna need bigger rockets, don’t you?
NARRATOR: Well boys, how about the biggest rocket of all time? Imagine 50 jumbo jets at full power, strapped to a 36 storey building. That’s Saturn 5.
It takes something like this to catapult man to the moon. But where does the colossal thrust actually come from?
RICHARD AMBROSE (PTC): Inside a rocket motor fuel is turned into gas through combustion and the gas is then forced out the back. And the reason why escaping gas pushes a rocket forward is explained by Newton’s Third Law of Motion.
JONNY PHILLIPS (PTC): Which is, as I’m sure you’ll remember from school, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
RICHARD AMBROSE (PTC): That’s the theory but what we need is a practical demonstration. Now as Jonny opens the valve on this pressurized gas canister the air will rush out but at the same time an equal and opposite force will propel it this way. Go on Jonny – open it up.
JONNY PHILLIPS (PTC): So there you have it. The basics of rocketry. Well what did you expect? It’s not rocket science.
NARRATOR: The rocket’s launch speed does not depend on the astronaut flooring the throttle but on how quickly the gas escapes from the exhaust.
Space rocket exhausts are hour glass shaped because gas flows at an accelerated rate if it’s forced through a narrow section into a wider end.
NARRATOR: The exhaust is crucial no matter what the size of the rocket.
Great Video Of Daniels Rocket on the 24mm Aerotech E18-4 Reload
Here is a great video clip of Daniels Pershing 1A from The Launch Pad on an Aerotech 24mm reload motor.
https://www.facebook.com/hoodriverhobbies/?fref=nf
SpaceX could be looking at a six-month stand down
Veteran satellite industry analyst Chris Quilty says SpaceX could be looking at a six-month stand down if its accident investigation reveals that internal tankage or plumbing on the Falcon caused the Sept. 1 pre-flight failure.