01-22-2014, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Fuse Eh!
During the earliest and most formative days of my rocketry interest my father gave me two books:
Rocket Manual For Amateurs by Capt. Bertrand R. Brimley
Handbook of Model Rocketry by G. Harry Stine
I credit the fact that I still have both eyes, ten fingers and at least some of my original hair to the fact that one book was more influential than the other in terms of guiding the ultimate direction my creative endeavours took.
That being said, a "small test rocket" designed by RRS and made of an aluminum cigar tube and a CO2 cartridge jammed with zinc and sulphur (pg. 160ff) still sounds like a lot of fun!
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Those little CO2 cartridge rockets worked quite well. Our dad's helped us make the bigger ones We would travel all the way down to the salt marshes, by Sea Isle, to launch. Only segulls nearby. After first launch, had the local cops show up. Thank heavens for a few dads being there. I think we kids would have been sent to juvie hall. 
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