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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Billy Joe Bob on November 09, 2005, 07:03:57 PM
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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!
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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.
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Check this website out...
http://www.nar.org/
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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 :rolleyes:
:furious but you do need a liscence to launch a rocket
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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
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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:
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.
;)
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Originally posted by AWMac
he survied but a bit squirrely.
He grew a longer tail ?
:)
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Here is another great site for High Power Rocketry
Tripoli Rocketry Association (http://www.tripoli.org/)
Now this is a ROCKET!
(http://www.tripoli.org/photos/images/IMG_0408.jpg)
Terror
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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With every generation comes fun nazi's who hate everyone so they want to BAN EVERYTHING. Yeah that's the way to solve problems, BAN EVERYTHING.
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Originally posted by nirvana
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?
those 22 cal crossman pellet guns and fire crackers were a hoot...
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Originally posted by nirvana
With every generation comes fun nazi's who hate everyone so they want to BAN EVERYTHING. Yeah that's the way to solve problems, BAN EVERYTHING.
*cough* anti grand theft auto: SA people* cough*
and btw thx i can finally get my parents to get me the rest of my rocket parts now they know i dont need a licence :D
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Man sling shots with marbles, then we moved up to wrist rockets and steelies.... busted up baby Buggys and shoe skates to make go-carts, a simple stick as a brake....LOL
Hell waitin on the ice cream man,the Good Humor truck, and early in the morning came the produce man yellin out. That was after the milkman came and left milk bottles on the back porch. Penny candy, nickel ice cream bars, batman and superman comic books, LOL playin cops and robbers, cowboys and indians and then catching lightning bugs in a Mason jar. As long as you were IN or near the front yard before the street lights came on you were okay. Walking to school 5 blocks, in the rain, snow, sleet...and coming home on Mother's day with a Marigold and a scribbled card saying "I Love You Mom". The newest things were the Freisbee and later the hula hoop. Black and White TV, let it warm up for 30 minutes and it was good...3 channels.... The cartoons were kewl..Heckel and Jeckel, Mighty Mouse. Then was Captain Kangaroo and Romper Room. Tarzan was great, Godzilla was frightening and then Wizard of OZ was Great...except for them dam Flyin Monkeys...I still crindge... Davy and Goliath, Mouseketeers, The Hardy Boys,
The Pledge of Alligence, hand over Heart, and a song afterwards.. either singing My Country the Beautiful or This is My Land.
Everyone remembers where they were when JFK was assassinated, Man on the Moon, Beatles on Ed Sullivan, George and Gracie, Bob Hope and Milton Burl, Red Skelton.
Leave it to Beaver when he was trapped in the coffee cup on the billboard. Ohio State, '68 and when in '68 when Bobby and Martin were assassinated.
Imagine the USA now if Robert Kennady and Martin Luther King had survived.
Is this a sign of "Without Chaos, there is no Organization?"
Hope a lil bit of this touched at least one of you, I know it did me.
Mac
Hope to see ya'll up.
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Sorry all, just lettin go a lil. I know I haven't offend anyone with my last post...welll maybe the Canucks. LOL.
Mac
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