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    A model rocket is a small rocket designed to reach low altitudes (e.g., 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft) for a 30 g (1.1 oz) model) and be recovered by a variety...
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  • Motors for model rockets and high-powered rockets (together, consumer rockets) are classified by total impulse into a set of letter-designated ranges,...
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    A water rocket is a type of model rocket using water as its reaction mass. The water is forced out by a pressurized gas, typically compressed air. Like...
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    A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. ''bobbin/spool'', and so named for its shape) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using...
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    framework Metamodeling Model aircraft Model car Model house Model railway Model rocket Rail transport modelling Scale model Scientific model Oxford English Dictionary...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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    name of a model rocket with built-in digital camera, manufactured by Estes Industries, for aerial photography. In contrast to the camera rocket Astrocam...
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  • Rocket candy, or R-Candy, is a type of rocket propellant for model rockets made with a form of sugar as a fuel, and containing an oxidizer. The propellant...
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  • pyrotechnics, to build him a rocket. By 1954, Orville had developed his first rocket, the Rock-A-Chute Mark I. This model had an airframe of paper with...
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  • List of artillery § Rockets List of rocket aircraft Lists of weapons Model rocket NATO reporting name (has lists of various Soviet missiles) This article...
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  • Vernon Estes (category Model rocketry)
    recognized model rocket production company, headquartered in Penrose, Colorado. In 1957, G. Harry Stine and Orville Carlisle founded the first model rocket company...
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  • A black powder rocket motor propels a model rocket using black powder. Black powder rocket propellants consist of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate...
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  • Estes Industries is a model rocket company that was started in Denver, Colorado, USA. Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the...
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    Astrocam (category Model rockets)
    B6-4 and C6-7 model rocket motors (see Model rocket motor classification). The Astrocam was available as kit, or as ready-to-fly model. Both versions...
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    This is a list of U.S. Army rocket launchers by model number. Launchers can be either tube-type or rail-type. M1 rocket launcher, 2.36 inch, solid tube...
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  • MITS in December 1969 to produce miniaturized telemetry modules for model rockets such as a roll rate sensor. In 1971, Roberts redirected the company...
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  • model rocket kits. Quest Aerospace was founded in 1992 by Bill Stine (son of G. Harry Stine) in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and produces model rocket kits...
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    single-use model rocket engines to provide a short, under 10 second burst of power. Government restrictions in some countries made rocket-propulsion rare...
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    National Association of Rocketry (category Model rocketry)
    certification of consumer rocket motors and for the certification of high-power rocket fliers in the U.S. The NAR is the author of a Model Rocket Safety Code for...
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    and started selling radio transmitters and instruments for model rockets. The model rocket kits were a modest success and MITS wanted to try a kit that...
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  • the episode, Bart Simpson and his father Homer accidentally launch a model rocket into the Springfield church, causing the church council to accept funding...
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    NFPA1122 standard dictates guidelines for model rocketry, while NFPA1127 is specific to high-power rockets. In most U.S. states NFPA1122 has been adopted...
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  • sub-sonic endo-atmospheric rocket flight describe the maximum altitude and coast time of a vehicle such as a model rocket. Aerospace engineer and inventor...
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  • film Bottle Rocket (album), a Guardian album Bottle rocket (model), a type of model rocket using water as its reaction mass "Bottle Rocket" (single), a...
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  • three model rockets in succession to produce an equivalent amount of thrust (3,000 horsepower [2,200 kW] for 15 seconds). They also installed a rocket rack...
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    model rocketry since high school and brought a supply of rockets to Vietnam. He used a nearby horse racing track as a launch site to test his rocket guidance...
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    A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
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  • artificial fly fishing lure, used in fly fishing Parachute streamer, a Model rocket parachute Search for "streamer"  or "streamers" on Wikipedia. The Streamer...
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  • structure heights, obstruction lighting and marking, model rocket launches, commercial space operations, model aircraft operations, unmanned aircraft systems...
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    The same function is served when shooting slugs. Wadding is used in model rockets to protect the parachute when it ejects. Without the recovery wadding...
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