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"12. Prelaunch Test. When conducting research activities with unproven model rocket designs or methods I will, when possible, determine the reliability of my model rocket by prelaunch tests. I will conduct the launching of an unproven design in complete isolation from persons not participating in the actual launching." But: To be brutally honest, I don't give a rat's rump whether some piece of paper somewhere says that I have--or don't have--a right to do anything (in model rocketry or life in general). If I want to do something, and it will harm no one else (because I'm doing it by myself, in this case), I will do it. I am not a Wiccan, but I live by their Rede, which (in modern English) says: "If it harms none, do what you wish."
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I give a rat's rump when folks in an egotistical rage make up rules to restrict others for no other reason than they can, or for reasons of superior morality, that frankly does not exist.
That explains most of NFPA-1122, NFPA-1125, NFPA-1127, all written by holier than thou rocket folks. I know. I was in the room a good part of the time. Ask yourself this of one particular example. If you have made the effort to get 1500g/125g passed through to FAA and now you are writing NFPA codes and NAR safety codes, why in hell would you both allow 125g motors and also restrict same to 160N-s? Just one of many examples in the regs of arbitrary and silly rules. How about NFPA-1125 that excludes vertical mixers, the ones most rocket companies and folk actually use, from permissibility. Guess who uses shakers? AT. Guess who packs their propellant? Estes. The companies most consistently represented on the NFPA committee "because there isn't room for more commercial reps". Really? Really. |
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I suppose I could start an entire industry again with whatever rules suited me, but current vogue is a website clientel. Also the existing channel is entrenched. We simply need more launch sites and clear guidelines on rocket size/altitude limits. http://v-serv.com/usr/safetycodes.htm I just want rules that allow Big Dumb Rockets. http://v-serv.com/FAA/BDR/ Reg Jerry Even Shecter had to max out the retail channel and buy web. It might actually be easier to do a NSL report on it, declare it the 2014 Blue Ribbon Commission, and see what NAR spearheads. As a vendor I have 3-4 suggestions that would at minimum double the active market. That would help everyone and even leave room for new entrants. |
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There is a working example of what you wrote above--Amateur Radio. It was first thought by "the powers-that-be" (and not just in the USA) that hams would, intentionally or not, interfere with standard (AM) and Shortwave broadcasters, but (with the exception of a very few "outlaw" operators) this has turned out not to be the case. This is largely because the rules are "generous" enough to not make piracy almost *necessary* (as is the case with the much more restrictive CB radio rules)--when you can legally use up to 1500 watts of transmitter output power (which exceeds that of many small AM radio stations), there's no real incentive for breaking the rules. Also: Amateur radio operators are permitted to use home-built, self-designed radio equipment, and even though the risk of electrocution and lethal or disfiguring RF (Radio Frequency) burns is quite real, especially at high transmitter power levels, in practice this is extremely rare. Just as a model/HP rocketeer is more likely to get hurt falling from a tree while trying to retrieve a rocket, ham radio operators are most often injured in falls while working on outdoor antennas.
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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! Kidding!!
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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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I trid to reply to this earlier, but I never saw it show up here. Guess the computer gremlins must have eaten it. Am on my way to check out Rocket Science Books. sounds lik my kind of place! The pomegranetes will have to wait a while. Right now it is about five degrees below zero (F) here, and Pomegranates are impossible to find. Will get back to you on this when pomegranate harvest time rolls around again. In the meantime, "Thanks!" is the best I can do. The Fireman |
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Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050 http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511 All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com. NAR #54895 SR |
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