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High Power Rocketry: Project 463 (2005-11-16)

Project 463 remains the largest hobby rocket ever flown, at 1200 lbs. This web page doesnt exactly do justice to the scale of the thing with the small images... But the first and only flight used ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Project 463 revisited (2009-06-12)

Launched at FireBALLS-005 in August 1995, Project 463 was the biggest sport rocket ever flown at 42' and 1200 lbs. It flew on a P and 2 N's in the booster and a single N in the sustainer, although ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Project 463 construction details (2009-06-18)

For historical purposes, I decided I'd capture some close-ups of the beast. In order, nosecone-to-thrust plate (L-to-R, top-to-bottom): nosecone on playa, nose section in the shop, upper sustainer ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Why people visited this page today (2011-04-27)

High power rocketry - 88 Milky way time lapse - 19 High power rocket - 13 Explosion - 12 Q motor - 11 Elektro-l - 10 Project 463 - 8 Vladimir petrovich demikhov - 8 Notsnik - 7 Sr-71 - 7 Right on ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: You can never get enough Project 463 (2011-11-30)

 Click on the 'Project 463' tag for more info on this 'ground breaking' project. [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Downright Ignorant (2006-12-15)

At the time, the largest hobby rocket ever made (mostly non metal parts - total motor power less than two O motors). Still smaller than project 463, posted previously, but certainly a great flight. [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Stratospheric Dreams (2009-06-20)

One of my personal favorite rocket attempts of all time was this one; an S motor attempt, that sadly failed in a CATO. Simmed to hit over 100,000 feet (claimed at 115,000), the most impressive part ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Starship Enterprises rocket history (2011-01-13)

Starship Enterprises was a manufacturer of some interesting kits.  In January 2001, the company changed names to Fat Cat Rockets.  Best as I remember, both entities were owned and operated ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Highlighting some old posts that I think are interesting (pat, pat, pat) (2013-01-07)

I see my post on the Stratospheric Dreams rocket is getting a lot of hits, so I thought I'd highlight some old posts on interesting sport rocketry history.    Project 463 ... [Read More]