Author Topic: min. age requirement for rocket liscence (Read 392 times)

Billy Joe Bob · « **on:** November 09, 2005, 07:03:57 PM »

HELP!!!!! i cant find anything saying where to get a rocket liscence in south California *orange county to be presice* and i dont know what the minimum age is either!

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 09, 2005, 07:10:00 PM »

Rocket license? Like model rockets? If you ar talking about model rockets only need a license to buy very large scale engines or have to be 18. One of the two.

Hangtime · « **Reply #2 on:** November 09, 2005, 07:12:05 PM »

Check this website out...

http://www.nar.org/

Billy Joe Bob · « **Reply #3 on:** November 09, 2005, 07:22:23 PM »

im talking about those high performing versions of C engines and i did check out that site but i couldnt find anything... mabye its all those plastic cement fumes from my rocket when i was building it

but you do need a liscence to launch a rocket

AWMac · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2005, 08:01:39 PM »

Man one of the best times I've had as a young boy was model rocketry.

Estes had the best. I built several and was just 12~14.

I had my own Red Launching pad, electical inserts into the engines. Hell I luanched my Sisters hampster 3 times... **** he survied but a bit squirrely.

Mac

Hangtime · « **Reply #5 on:** November 09, 2005, 08:02:30 PM »

Kid, you always have somebody else do your homework?

Rocket motors, size G and under, do not require a license. As for rocket size.. From the Model Rocket Saftey Code, on the website above:

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7. Size. My model rocket will not weigh more than 1,500 grams (53 ounces) at liftoff and will not contain more than 125 grams (4.4 ounces) of propellant or 320 N-sec (71.9 pound-seconds) of total impulse. If my model rocket weighs more than one pound (453 grams) at liftoff or has more than four ounces (113 grams) of propellant, I will check and comply with Federal Aviation Administration regulations before flying.

Now before you get your testicles in an uproar, I strongly suggest you stick your nose into the publications on that website, including the saftey code, in it's entirety, and do yer damn homework. There are restrictions regarding launch area conditions.. size of open field as well as other saftey requirements.

Read, kid. Does a brain good.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 09, 2005, 08:15:29 PM »

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Originally posted by AWMac
he survied but a bit squirrely.

He grew a longer tail ?

Terror · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2005, 08:54:29 PM »

Here is another great site for High Power Rocketry

Tripoli Rocketry Association

Now this is a ROCKET!

Terror

Hangtime · « **Reply #8 on:** November 09, 2005, 09:10:08 PM »

'Ol Creamo has some of the most outstanding and incredible rockets I've EVER seen.. stuff that puts the TV rocketry guys in the back seat.

FiLtH · « **Reply #9 on:** November 09, 2005, 10:43:18 PM »

I used to do alot of rocket stuff. My brother and a few friends would compete with scratch built stuff. The engines were Estes or whatever..cant remember name. Largest we used were D sized. One day we decided to launch one that came in a kit. A 6 ft tall one called Mean Machine. About 1.5 inch around. We added a booster engine to it, although it was designed for just one D size. We taped the booster to the regulaer engine and launched her.

Unfortunately the launch rod was too frail and it leaned over at ignition. It took off at about a 60 degree angle. It went over the high school (we were in the football field) and leveled off. Suddenly the primary engine fired and it took off..level past the school, crossing main street and ending up on a side street in a Realtors front lawn.

We grabbed it and ran. I could only imagine the faces of drivers seeing that thing cross the road about 200 ft in the air.

Another time we burnt down about 40 acres of field..but thats another story.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #10 on:** November 09, 2005, 11:05:34 PM »

At our local youth club I helped a dozen or so kids build rockets a few months ago. We had a blast lighting them off.

It was a windy day and we lost two thirds of them but the kids loved it anyway.

Good clean fun.

When I was a kid we spent our days taping grasshoppers and other bugs to bottle rockets and lighting them off.

Not so clean but still a lot of fun.

Billy Joe Bob · « **Reply #11 on:** November 09, 2005, 11:26:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Kid, you always have somebody else do your homework?

Rocket motors, size G and under, do not require a license. As for rocket size.. From the Model Rocket Saftey Code, on the website above:

Now before you get your testicles in an uproar, I strongly suggest you stick your nose into the publications on that website, including the saftey code, in it's entirety, and do yer damn homework. There are restrictions regarding launch area conditions.. size of open field as well as other saftey requirements.

Read, kid. Does a brain good.

*ahem* i am 14

yeah the reason I made this topic is becuase my parents are confused over rocket licences

Wolfala · « **Reply #12 on:** November 09, 2005, 11:43:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Billy Joe Bob
*ahem* i am 14

yeah the reason I made this topic is becuase my parents are confused over rocket licences

I've been building high powered rockets since age 12. Had a 1/3 scale Patriot weighing 20 lbs with a 5 cluster of J-120s. Scared the **** out of everyone when the thing went off - had about 30 flights with it when a motor casing failure gave it a military funeral in spectacular fashion.

Salvaged the fins which were masonite and switched to composite motors from that point. Made the resurected PAC-2, about 8 feet tall and 20 lbs with the same cluster. On its maiden flight, it lifted and struck a goose at about 500 feet. I couldn't believe it b/c it was during high school and we had most of my photography class outside at the time. So with the goose obliterated and the rocket oscilating in a unhealthy fashion, the motor mounts tore loose and ripped apart. Alas, no chute b/c the pyros inside were torn when the mounts tore out.

Hellova way to end.

I currently have a AIM-120 composite sitting at my parents from 2 years ago which i painted up but have yet to fly.

I miss it - really.

Wolf

nirvana · « **Reply #13 on:** November 09, 2005, 11:49:54 PM »

You older guys (30+) grew up in a different time. You used to be able to shoot BB guns in the 'burbs too didn't you?

FiLtH · « **Reply #14 on:** November 10, 2005, 12:48:05 AM »

Yes..and bomb scares were called in all the time to scholl when a kid felt like staying home. Of course they'd figure out who it was and he'd get suspended for a week or 2. My dad's age group, and many guys I knew used to have .22 fights. Not to hit someone but come close. Crazy stuff.
We knew a guy who used to make bombs for the 4th of july, and light em off right in town, in the riverbed. Seems every generation has less fun.