Despite all my rumbing about using masks to create the camo pattern for the Hostile Projectiles V-2, I went a little stir crazy and just started sprayin'.... [Read More]
Location: Higgs Farm, Price, MD ( MDRA - ESL-140) Weather: temps in the 40's, light breeze Total flights: Today - 4; YTD - 4 Total motors: Today - 4; YTD - 4 I can not believe I actually got out to ... [Read More]
EMRR is updated ! There are 15 new reviews, including mine on the Hostile Projectiles V-2 . I haven't scoured the site, but the The RockSim Library has new look and some new data and there ... [Read More]
I think I'm going to turn the Semroc V-2 that I bought as part of my 'showing my support' purchase into one of these. At least I'll try. This willl require some serious nose weight. Chances are high ... [Read More]
This is sport scale model of an X-15 variant proposed by North American Aviation. More accurately, it is fantasy scale since this stretched, delta-winged version was never produced. Like the other ... [Read More]
This Hostile Projectiles kit is a sport scale BT-60 V-2 that flies on 18mm motors. The main thing that differentiates this kit is the hand-cast resin nose and tail cones. These are not your daddy's ... [Read More]
At the last NARHAMS launch, the Hostile Projectiles V-2 separated and the cone drifted away. I thought I saw it fall on the near side of a far tree line but my wife thought it went over. I started ... [Read More]
Well, you can't find your lost stuff unless you look for it...and I didn't trek up the large hill to search for my lost nose cone. Here is the new nose cone and new paint job. I didn't go for ... [Read More]
Why do I add dashes where they don't belong and leave them when they do? Fireball XL-5 vs. Fireball XL5 and V2 vs. V-2. In internet communications, smileys should be a valid form of punctuation :) ... [Read More]
May 30, 1947 El Paso and Juarez were rocked Thursday night when a runaway German V-2 rocket fired from the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico crashed and exploded on top of a rocky knoll three ... [Read More]
On February 24th, 1949, a two stage V-2 'Bumper WAC' launched from White Sands, New Mexico became the first documented rocket to reach space. It attained an altitude of 244 miles, well above the ... [Read More]
Location: Old National Pike Park, Mt. Airy, MD ( NARHAMS ) Weather: up to 48 degs, wind calm to mild, sunny to overcast Total flights: Today - 10; YTD - 10 Total motors: Today - 10; YTD - 10 The ... [Read More]
The title sounds like a description of some of my projects, but it is actually the name of a new kit vendor . Their one current offering is the V-23 Bomber Manned Rocket but a standard V2 ... [Read More]
I've been away from the Dungeon and my rockets, but have been pondering what to do with my Quest MLAS #2. All options will include a lightly glassed cone to make it sturdier and easier to ... [Read More]
1. Watched Atlantis STS-129 launch on NASA TV. 2. As best I could, I recreated the MLAS nose weight that I used on-site and weighed it. It came up to 0.3 oz.. I found ... [Read More]
While I was gone for the weekend, my order from Hostile Projectiles arrived! I got both the V-2 and the Delta X-15. Here are my initial impressions. I'll start with the reason I ... [Read More]
Here is the V-2, flight ready and waiting for primer. I ended up laminating the fins with paper since I couldn't get the fin template off the balsa. The instructions have you attach the ... [Read More]
Well, a little sanding and a re-coat did the trick. Trying to sand the base of the cone actually lifted all the primer. I sanded the exposed areas good before the re-priming. My ... [Read More]
The Unwanted Blog , among other things, is the front for a commercial enterprise that offers drawings of various aerospace subjects. The latest is Space Drawing set 22: V-2 rocket ... [Read More]
Well, apparently, so did the Germans. Scott Lowther has an interesting blog post on the ?Prüfstand XII? (?Test Stand 12?) concept. His post includes some background/history and ... [Read More]
Clark Lindsey gives latest scoop on the upcoming X-37B flight. The update is short so I quoted the whole thing. And swiped the new NASA/ULA graphic. Leonard David reports again on the ... [Read More]
The first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle roars into the skies above California carrying DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 on April 22, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class ... [Read More]
Spaceflight Now reports that the Minotaur-4 'Lite' deployed the HTV-2 at more than 20 times the speed of sound. However, contact was lost around 9 minutes after liftoff. After d ... [Read More]
Location: Central Sod Farm, Centreville, MD ( MDRA ESL-144) Weather: sunny, high 70's, windy Total flights: Today - 12; YTD - 33 Total motors: Today - 12; YTD - 33 The day started badly - the Beltway ... [Read More]
Gone to Aridzone, that is. Yesterday, Warthog and Mrs. W. hosted a nice going away party for our rocket buddy, Paul. They covered all the food groups: grilled meat, BBQ, sausage ... [Read More]
Today's EMRR Update includes reviews of my Odd' Rockets Birdie and Wedgie . One has a goofy formatting error but the gist should be clear - these are cool kits. And you can always look at ... [Read More]
What's inside: Review of an Estes Saturn V complete with scale gantry; Pt. 5 of Black Magic Missile Work's electronics series; Rocket girl Haley Allen; Launch report from the Phoenix Missile Works ... [Read More]
Coming in Ballistic , originally uploaded by jurvetson .
The sad demise of Steve Jurvetson's big V-2.1. Click through for a bigger view and the action sequence, including the digging that ... [Read More]
Location: Old National Pike Park, Mt. Airy, MD ( NARHAMS ) Weather: overcast, mid 80's, humid, wind 5mph Total flights: Today - 12; YTD - 90 Total motors: Today - 14; YTD - 118 This was a great day ... [Read More]
Iran's version of German V 1 , originally uploaded by Douglas606 .
I obviously don't support such things politically, but this would be an interesting scale subject for those who like the V-1 ... [Read More]
As you see from the attached photo, the headliners in this issue were TARC and NSL. I especially liked the NSL reports, which included a lot of nice photos. Two that stood out were night ... [Read More]
Photo - check. Ruler - check. As-built Semroc V-2 - check. Mash this stuff up and shove it into RockSim. And this is what you get. Since the Hermes A-1 is not based on ... [Read More]
I think this is where I got my rocket genes! My dad's outfit, circa 1947. Via the Ft. Bliss Monitor :
The 1st Anti-Aircraft Guided Missile Battalion was organized at Fort Bliss in ... [Read More]
A mere week after ESL-148, I'm already itching to launch. My October launches are still up in the air and the prospects of missing them is fueling the itch. I have NARHAMS and then Red ... [Read More]
I went ahead and started the Hermes A-1 kitbash. I looked back at the spreadsheet that I made to guesstimate the dimensions of the fins and decided it is good enough. I'm sure these ... [Read More]
TRF just opened a new forum section for rocket Galleries . These are organized by kit type (e.g. Fliskits Deuce's Wild! ) or scale subject (e.g. V-2 ). The latter will include all ... [Read More]
I was looking forward to this weekend's NARAMS launch but it looks like life has gotten in the way. P L =0. I also feel bad for the rest of the club because the weather report is saying the ... [Read More]
This one shows the FLIR landing video and some of the post-processing. I went ahead and quoted the text included with the video. I found the video link on the ParabolicArc . The U.S. Air ... [Read More]
My Mini-V2 (2nd from left) is a semi-scale model based on BT-50 tubing. I was motivated to build this V2 after seeing plans for a BT-20 version that appeared in the January 1989 issue of American ... [Read More]
This post covers several from my Semroc Fleet: Gee'hod SLS Sky Hook Recruiter Space Probe LAUNCH Missile Gee'hod
This is the latest in Semroc's line of Groonies (Grown-up Goonies). Inspired by ... [Read More]
When I read that Hans "Chris" Michielssen had converted a Quest FLICS rubber band powered rocket to MicroMaxx power, I immediately gave it a try. I too have had a stash of these freebies with no ... [Read More]
The images below document a V-2 launch circa 1950. They were part of an article in the October 1950 issue of National Geographic, which was written by Clyde T. Holliday. Mr. Holliday ... [Read More]
ATK and Astrium (an EADS Company) are teaming to respond to NASA's Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement. I grabbed this diagram from R2K . As shown, their Liberty rocket is a ... [Read More]
Since there isn't much to say besides the new date/time, I'm merely republishing yesterday's post. The OTV-2 space plane is slated to launch tomorrow from the CCAFS atop an Atlas V. The launch ... [Read More]
Today, I spotted two interesting stories about the cosmic beings known as amateur skywatchers (aka astronomers and sat-watchers). The first comes from the Bayourat's Twitter stream via ... [Read More]
The literal count is one, one Ballistic Chicken. But what I was getting at in the title is that I have laid out and prepped my rockets for tomorrow; and I even built a couple of reloads. Last ... [Read More]
Location: Price, MD ( MDRA ESL-154) Weather: partly cloudy, low 50's, wind 0 - 5 MPH Total flights: Today - 11; YTD - 11 Total motors: Today - 21; YTD - 21 I left very early under the light of the ... [Read More]
This review explains how I converted a sport scale Semroc V-2 xKit to a Hermes A-1. Construction The following parts are required: One Semroc V-2 xKit, using the scale fin option 3/32” balsa stock ... [Read More]
I haven't seen any sport rocketry activity from Steve Neill and Hostile Projectiles for some time (here are reviews of my HP builds: V-2 , Delta X-15 ). Most of his recent blog activity has ... [Read More]
Rocketry Planet posted an article on a full scale V-2 model that was built for the Classic Fighters Airshow at Omaka Airfiel, New Zealand. The article describes the V-2 'flight' in the future ... [Read More]
One RP reader smells gasoline.
Figuratively, of course, he wasn't there AFAIK. I just find it a shame that people would spend the effort to build such a cool prop and feel they had to burn it ... [Read More]
_MG_0028.jpg , originally uploaded by Nick DeBrita .
Built to fly! 480 lbs; Predicted alt: 9,000' Motor: 60,000Ns (mid-'P') PS - 'Smaller' in the title somewhat cryptically refers to my previous ... [Read More]
"Make This Your Year To Ride The Rocket"! , originally uploaded by paul.malon .
Timewarp! This Oldsmobile ad seems to have been inspired by my banner, which was inspired by my Big V-2 History ... [Read More]
In no particular order:
Here's a Flickr album on the flight of the the Copenhagen Suborbitals' HEAT 1X-Tycho Brahe flight: - Mission 2011 .
And more HEAT 1X-Tycho Brahe videos, via Clark ... [Read More]
Hope this inspires the scratch builder and odd-rocketeer in you. Clockwise, starting with the big gray one:
5.5" dia., made from two sizes of floral foam cones, glassed with a plastic ... [Read More]
The National Museum of the United States Air Force has a nice virtual tour . You can find their V-2 in the WWII area, second button from the top in the far left (display # 030).
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DARPA was giving some mission status via Twitter and reports that they lost telemetry after the HTV-2 successfully entered the glide phase about 30 minutes ago. The attached graphic depicts the ... [Read More]
Space.com notes that, as of last week, OTV-2 had been in orbit over 206 days on its way to its full 270 day mission. Although its mission is still top secret, the Air Force will say that it is ... [Read More]
Space.com reports that the Army's AHW (Advanced Hypersonic Weapon) had a flawless first flight, streaking across the Pacific at "several times the speed of sound." To be considered hypersonic, that ... [Read More]
In no particular order....
Early in the year, I completed transferring reviews from the old EMRR (see the My Rocket Reviews Page ). I transferred (and updated) all but eight and, while I ... [Read More]
More Winter? Punxsutawney Phil Sees His Shadow , Live Science - I wonder what 6 more weeks of winter means when you hardly have had any already? My prognostication is that we'll have 9 ... [Read More]
This morning Model Rocket Building discussed the new Estes 2012 catalog (pdf) that just appeared on their site. Most of the new stuff that interested me has been discussed here and I'm sure ... [Read More]
Booms ...brought to you via High Power Rocketry (and the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Tech.
Year anniversaries: Fukushima (March 11), X-37B OTV-2 (March 5).
... [Read More]
Why we love to fear dragons - Cosmic Log - I posted this because I just watch the finale if Season 1 of Game of Thrones . Season 2 starts tomorrow. That show really needed dragons.
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Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Delayed One Week - Parabolic Arc
Graupel alert! - DCist - before this Spring, I had never heard of graupel.
More info in coming out about Planetary Resources in ... [Read More]
This morning, Modern Mechanix features an interesting article by Willy Ley: Missile vs. Missile, A rocket expert looks at our chances of withstanding a missile invasion (09/1947). &nb ... [Read More]
today in 1950: 1st rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. The rocket was a Bumper 8, a German V-2 captured after WWII go.nasa.gov/OWjKLz — NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) July 24, 2012 ... [Read More]
V-2 rocket footage , High Power Rocketry (9/3)
Live Hangout with me at RocketFest! , Bad Astronomy (9/3) - Fundraiser for Huntsville's US Space and Rocket Center - Rockfest
Check out T.I.'s ... [Read More]
I won't bore you with all the whys and wherefores, but I have decided to take this blog back to its roots. The Dungeon began as a place to talk about my projects and to document my launches. And, I ... [Read More]
I see Chris Michielssen posted his top ten for 2012. So, I see no reason to wait to post mine: 1. Space Shuttle Discovery buzzes Washington DC .
2. Discovery and Enterprise nose-to-nose at ... [Read More]
I haven't been blogging but I have been harvesting photos. Since this isn't general rocketry or space news, my previous self-imposed rules don't apply. So, here are some retro-futuristic cars, ... [Read More]
From German V-2 failures to a robot dog tossing cinder blocks, Jalopnik presents The Ten Most Unbelievable Military Testing Videos . You can argue the 'most' and the 'unbelievable' but they are ... [Read More]
I just found my very first issue of HPR magazine (pictured). I had previously posted about the first issue of my subscription, but this is one I bought off-the-shelf a few years earlier. I got this ... [Read More]
After seeing ~1/10 of Dave Bucher's huge fleet on Facebook, I thought I'd snapshot mine, which consists of a paltry 233 birds. First sort criteria is a column that's not showing, breaking the list ... [Read More]
Chris Michielssen reposted this from YORF (of course, there is a similar thread on TRF ):
Semroc Fans, I am sorry to say that we will be closing the company. After my father’s death ... [Read More]
A V-104 is what you get when you mix a V-2 with an F-104 Starfighter. (Refer to the attached photo) On top is one of the pods from my rekitted F-104 Starfighter. On the bottom is the rocket being ... [Read More]
Well, I finished painting the fins and attached them with...hot melt glue. I had a hard time bonding to this plastic when the F-104 was an F-104 so I thought I'd try something new. I figure the ... [Read More]
Location: NARHAMS, Mt. Airy Weather: max temp. in high 50's, a few high clouds, gusty winds to 15mph Total flights: Today - 13; YTD - 28 Total motors: Today - 14; YTD - 33 Motors by class YTD: ... [Read More]
It's raining, I had to get up early to meet our paving contractor and my current project is waiting on Stickershock23 (decals will be here Monday!). I am not really in the market to spend money on ... [Read More]
Despite all my rumbing about using masks to create the camo pattern for the Hostile Projectiles V-2, I went a little stir crazy and just started sprayin'.... [Read More]
