When I was deployed in Iraq of 2005 I was given a book from the editor of Quest magazine. This was a true gem because it was the only endorsed biography from Neil Armstrong:
https://www.facebook.com/QuestQuarterly/
Author: JET66
2016 World Championships for Space Models
August 22-27, 2016 Lviv, Ukraine
American World Space Modeling athletes took to the fields of Lviv for the biannual gathering of nations to determine world champions in space modeling. Team USA brings home three individual gold medals, one team gold medal, two individual silver medals, three team silver medals, one individual bronze medal, and one team bronze medal.
The Senior Team USA also placed third overall at the competition to score bronze. What an outstanding accomplishment for all who participated.
The USA final podium results are:
S2P (Precision fragile payload) World Cup –
Sr. Individual Gold – Emma Kristal
Sr. Team Gold – USA
Jr. Individual Silver – Ashley VanMilligan
Jr. Individual Bronze – Allison VanMilligan
Jr. Team Silver – USA
S1A Altitude (Junior) –
Individual Silver – Ashley VanMilligan
Team Silver – USA
S1B Altitude (Senior) –
Individual Gold – Dr. Bob Kreutz
Team Silver – USA
S5C Scale Altitude (Senior) –
Individual Gold – Matt Steele
S8D R/C R/G (Junior) –
Team Bronze – USA
Congratulations to all of the team members, supporters, and captain John Langford for this awesome showing at the international competition.
28 August WSMC 2016 Event Results
Noosphere did a terrific job promoting the 2016 WSMC event. This YouTube video highlights some very impressive flights:
Final Days event ended with Scale Model Competition for Senior and Junior Division.
The Individual Senior competitor from the Czech Republic, Jan Sebesta submitted a scale model of the Saturn V . The static scoring points were 516 for static display. He was one point shy in the static scoring against the Ukraine Mykoia Pushkar who entered a scale model of the Zenit 3SL rocket who had a static score of 517. Jan’s Saturn V rocket had a successful first launch that gave him a score of 240 (Total points 756). Mykoia had a DQ on his first attempt. The second flight attempt was successful, however he only
gained 236 points (Total points 753). It was a very very close competition.
Complete results of the days events are here:
Final results of the 2016 FAI S World Championship for Space Models
Day Event Number 3 of the WSMC 2016 Event Results
Estes Mega Mosquito on a CTI E22-5 Smokey Sam Reload
The little E 22 CTI 24mm 1-grain reload worked perfectly with a 5 second delay. The camera is the keychain digital camer model 808 #16 model. The holder is a 3D printed shroud that can be easily attached to a 2.0 inch diameter body tube.
The web link is: http://additive-aerospace.myshopify.com/collections/video-camera-shrouds/products/808-16-camera-shroud
and the creator is Andrew Diehl. He can be contacted at Andrew@AdditiveAerospace.com
WSMC 2016 August 26th Competition Results
Day Two of the World Space Modeling Championships 2016
Day two is moving along for the teams:
It is really neat to watch on line the events going on. The are 211 competitors this year and it is amazing.
Day One of the 2016 World Space Modeling Championship Standings
Small Sounding Rockets Archive
Here is a link to some historical rocket projects that would be good to make scale models of:
Small Sounding Rockets Photo Archive
Reaction Research Society Motor Making Class from 2000
Attached is a report from a very well done three day class offered by the Reaction Research Society of California. I luckily kept a copy of the report that was submitted to Tripoli, but never posted.