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World's Largest Model Rocket to Lift Off Saturday
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| Monday, April 20, 2009
Posted on 04/20/2009 1:12:24 PM PDT by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude
I think it’s cool... but glad 36’ of home-made rocket isn’t launching in my backyard!
To: Joiseydude
How big does it have to be before they stop calling it a “model rocket”?
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:15:05 PM PDT
by
caver
(Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
To: Joiseydude
Its nine rocket engines will provide 8,000 pounds of thrust to lift it between 3,000 and 4,000 feet above its launching point in Price, Md. Pretty cool ... but then again, given all that thrust it's pretty disappointing performance, too. Having not seen the specs, I'm guessing it's a single-stage deal, so they're dragging a bunch of excess weight.
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:15:32 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Joiseydude
This ought to light up an MSAT.
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:15:32 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Red_Devil 232; beebuster2000; Just another Joe
Taking things to a logical conclusion....
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:16:21 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
To: caver
If it wasn’t a replica of the Saturn V I’m sure the BATFE would be knocking on his door....(if they didn’t already)
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:17:59 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
To: Joiseydude
Guy makes his own Surface to Air Missile in backyard. ATF and DHS arrest him for being an ‘extremist’
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:19:43 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
To: Joiseydude
Now taking bets on how soon the ATF kicks in his door and shoots his dog.
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:20:25 PM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Joiseydude
Launch it from Hawai’i toward L’il Kim
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:20:48 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:21:26 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: caver
How big does it have to be before they stop calling it a model rocket?Good question! Probably a matter of (potential) payload?
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:22:01 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Made In The USA
Can’t wait for the UFO siting reports....
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:22:14 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Made In The USA; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
FrEak State Ping!
Where’s Prince, MD. Wonder if I’ll be able to see it.
To: Joiseydude
That is one HELL of a model!
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:24:04 PM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Joiseydude
She’s beautiful. Saturn V, my all time favorite rocket.
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:26:41 PM PDT
by
lormand
To: Joiseydude
I love America. One man in his back yard can out perform the entire North Korean space program!
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:26:41 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: nuke rocketeer
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:27:11 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: caver
the magic number is 62.5 grams.
That's the largest amount of propellant a single model rocket engine can have in it - by law
Rocket motors at the E level begin to make a transition into a higher powered form of the hobby, with F- and G-engines used by much more experienced rocketeers.
H-engines and above are generally the province of experienced adult hobbyists who fly from fields measured in square miles and launch with clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The 62.5-gram level for a single engine is reached around the mid-G-motor level.
Depending on the manufacturer, motors starting in the medium range around the F-classification and above use an ammonium perchlorate composite propellant.
hobbyists that want to continue to handle and fly rocket motors with propellant amounts greater than 62.5 grams will be able to do so by applying for a permit, undergoing a background check, paying a $25 fee and getting fingerprinted - application forms are available on the Internet.
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posted on
04/20/2009 1:30:51 PM PDT
by
bill1952
(Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: Joiseydude
We need to protect and secure this guy. North Korea might just kidnap him.
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