RE: [Utah-astronomy] TV coverage
Let me back-peddle a bit. Now I don't recall if his rocket went to 200,000 feet or if he was talking about another, but I do know that 200,000 feet can be achieved by today's serious rocket enthusiasts. With FAA permission, of course. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:41 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] TV coverage Are you sure it wasn't 20,000 ft.? 200,000 ft. is 38 miles! Wow! How'd you like that guy working on his hobby right next door? ;) C. --- Kim Hyatt <khyatt@smithlayton.com> wrote:
I have an acquaintance who built and launched a six-foot rocket that achieved an altitude of about 200,000 feet!
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:27 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] TV coverage
Howard, you may enjoy reading "Managing Martians", by Donna Shirley, Project manager for the Sojourner rover. It is highly autobiographical, but Shirley also describes in some detail some of the engineering problems her team encountered. I also caught a segment of a recent interview with her on PBS recently, sorry but I couldn't watch long enough to get the title of the show and darned if I can recall the time and day now.
Your mention of model rocketry takes me back. There is a b&w photo in my shop taken by a high-school friend, of me in a crowd of other participants on the flight-line, preparing my "boost-glider" rocket for a competition at Brighton High in the mid-seventies. I took third place, not bad since the competition was also the first powered test flight!
The hobby today is mind-boggling, a lifetime away from the Estes & Centurion world. The model rockets being launched today look like DOD projects!
C.
--- Howard Jackman <sumoetx@yahoo.com> wrote:
I love NOVA! What an amazing program. I was very impressed with the graphics, and coverage of the developmental problems that they encountered, especially the parachute since I'm also an avid amateur model rocketeer and have had some first hand experiences with parachutes "shredding" with fast deployments.
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Chuck and Kim here's a link to a team that launched a rocket from a balloon that went somewhere between 30-36 nautical miles, I think that's cheating! http://hiwaay.net/~hal5/HALO/SL-1/sl-1c-post.shtml I just Checked the NAR's website for their official altitude records and a pending record was set by Robert Alway in May 1998 of 213,600ft http://hiwaay.net/~hal5/HALO/SL-1/sl-1c-post.shtml I had heard that prior to that the altitude record was around 100,000ft I personally have seen two launches to around 10,000ft which were pretty spectacular! I'm not even going to try to launch one that high I don't have the money or desire to go through so much red tape, you thought dropping a bowling ball was a headache! Chuck, thanks for the book referall, I read somewhere a review on it, I belive it was in S&T. I read a story about a rocket scientist Harry Stine I believe, who in the 50's worked on rockets for NASA they were having trouble finding the center of pressure on one of their rockets and all the geewhiz guys couldn't figure it out, well Harry just made a cardboard cutout of the rocket just like you do in model rocketry and they found the CP and it flew without any stability problems. That's why I found the parachute fix on the rovers so interesting sometimes it's the low-tech that works the best You know the saying K.I.S.S. Howard --- Kim Hyatt <khyatt@smithlayton.com> wrote:
Let me back-peddle a bit. Now I don't recall if his rocket went to 200,000 feet or if he was talking about another, but I do know that 200,000 feet can be achieved by today's serious rocket enthusiasts. With FAA permission, of course.
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:41 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] TV coverage
Are you sure it wasn't 20,000 ft.?
200,000 ft. is 38 miles! Wow!
How'd you like that guy working on his hobby right next door? ;)
C.
--- Kim Hyatt <khyatt@smithlayton.com> wrote:
I have an acquaintance who built and launched a six-foot rocket that achieved an altitude of about 200,000 feet!
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:27 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] TV coverage
Howard, you may enjoy reading "Managing Martians", by Donna Shirley, Project manager for the Sojourner rover. It is highly autobiographical, but Shirley also describes in some detail some of the engineering problems her team encountered. I also caught a segment of a recent interview with her on PBS recently, sorry but I couldn't watch long enough to get the title of the show and darned if I can recall the time and day now.
Your mention of model rocketry takes me back. There is a b&w photo in my shop taken by a high-school friend, of me in a crowd of other participants on the flight-line, preparing my "boost-glider" rocket for a competition at Brighton High in the mid-seventies.
I took third place, not bad since the competition was also the first powered test flight!
The hobby today is mind-boggling, a lifetime away from the Estes & Centurion world. The model rockets being launched today look like DOD projects!
C.
--- Howard Jackman <sumoetx@yahoo.com> wrote:
I love NOVA! What an amazing program. I was very impressed with the graphics, and coverage of the developmental problems that they encountered, especially the parachute since I'm also an avid amateur model rocketeer and have had some first hand experiences with parachutes "shredding" with fast deployments.
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