World's Largest Model Rocket to Lift Off Saturday

FoxNews ^ | Monday, April 20, 2009

[Joiseydude]

On Saturday, April 25, the Saturn V, the rocket that sent men to the moon 40 years ago, will once again lift off from U.S. soil and soar over the Atlantic.

Only this time, it won't be quite real. Rather, what's going up will be the largest model rocket ever built — a one-tenth scale, 36-foot-tall, fully working replica of the Saturn V.

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.

[Hot Tabasco]

glad 36’ of home-made rocket isn’t launching in my backyard!

...OR landing there!

I wonder where he IS lauching from and how much govt. bureaucracy he had to go thru if any.

[raybbr]

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.

Dear God, that is why I love FR. Someone out there always knows the answer to a question on this site. Thanks.

[Joiseydude]

I wonder where he IS lauching

Price, MD

[NormsRevenge]

Saturn V Moon Rocket
http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/saturn.html

[Alex Murphy]

You left out the rest of the headline:

....World's Largest Model Rocket Cellophane Parachute Will Fail to Deploy, World's Largest Model Rocket Expected to Crash In Field.

[TonyM]

Has the UN condemed the launch yet?

[grjr21]

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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I hope he has his license then .From the story

It's cost a lot of money — the 1,700 pounds of ammonium perchlorate fuel alone will cost about $13,000

[Sawdring]

You forgot to ad this:

World's largest cricket used as payload fails to survive due to severe burns.

[antiRepublicrat]

How big does it have to be before they stop calling it a “model rocket”?

I guess as long as it isn't as big as the real one, and with a Saturn V you can make a damn big model rocket. I say go for 1/2 scale.

[bruinbirdman]

"Where’s Prince, MD."

Don't know about Prince, MD. It doesn't show up in any references but Prince George's is next to Andrew's AFB, MD.

yitbos

[OldMissileer]

She’s beautiful. Saturn V, my all time favorite rocket.

This is my favorite. It was also used on the Gemini project.

[Hot Tabasco]

I know the city but is it from his back yard or in an extremely large plot of vacant land outside of the city?

[Dixiekraut]

It’s a farm field on Maryland’s Eastern Shore known as Higgs Farm..they just had an event there this past weekend called “ Red Glare VI”...

http://www.mdrocketry.org/launches/redglare6/

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Has the UN condemed the launch yet?

He may launch it towards Israel, so they may not have to condemn it...

[SampleMan]

The North Koreans and Iranians would televise it and call it a satellite launch.

[nuke rocketeer]

A model rocket ends at 3.3 lbs total weight and 62.5 grams of propellant. Anything over that, like this beast, is considered high power rocketry.

BTW...the model/high power hobby rocketry people just won a 10 year plus legal battle with the BATFEces over high power rocket engines.

[BuffaloJack]

Geez, that things bigger than the liquid fueled rocket that the Confederacy shot at Washington during the Civil War.

[nuke rocketeer]

Purty neat, ain’t it.....

beats the hell outta the F and G engined rockets I fire off.....

[Bean Counter]

“... the 1,700 pounds of ammonium perchlorate fuel alone will cost about $13,000 — and Eves and his partners are taking donations.”

1700 pounds of perchlorate ought to help get this thing airborne....for certain, with 8,000 lbs of thrust, it’s going somewhere...

[Dixiekraut]

Yeah..as you can see here..some of these “backyard” rocket scientists take this stuff pretty seriously.....they’ve come a long way from our Estes model rocket days...

Q-Powered Pershing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=959E5Oh7gPM&feature=related