#81 Season 6 premiere, and workshop talk with our newest member of the show!

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Welcome to Season 6 of The rocketry Show!

We are kicking off the 5th anniversary of our program, with the newest member of the show, Jesse Ulibarri as we dive into "Workshop Talk"!

On this episode, the gang discus their Fin can build techniques for High Power, their experiences with Motor retainers, n00b has a new rocket room! 

Also, CG and Gheem's rocket club gains access to a nice new field.

#80 NY Power 2019

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Welcome to Episode 80 of The Rocketry Show!

In this episode, CG and Daniel travel to upstate New York for NY Power 2019.

We catch up with Dan Michael and Neil Brown, and we discus their backgrounds, and the launches of their Big ...ahem... Friggin Rockets.

Here are some picture highlights....all photos are by C.Gould of The Rocketry Show.

Patrons can view them on our website: https://www.therocketryshow.com

Dan Michael with a motor casing for an "M" Impulse motor build.

Dan Michael and his Nike Smoke

Dan Michaels' Nike Smoke liftoff!

Neil Brown and the booster section for his Polecat Saturn V

Daniel the rocket n00b and his SA-14 Archer build.

CG's Ares rocket lifting off after "MacGyver" repairs...

Neil Brown's Polecat Saturn V, and it's wild launch (picture sequence below.

Liftoff!

#79: Personal “Project Apollo” analogy stories, and Airbrushing followup

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The team get together to talk rocket stories and some workshop talk with you on this episode.

We talked about some of the entries seen at our club's Apollo 11 tribute launch on July 20, 2019. One of which was a wonderful gold painted Saturn V by our club member, Casey Anderson.

After that, we delved into our most challenging rocketry projects -- our personal "Project Apollo", if you will, along with a listener story. We shared listener JE Thompson's story, and audio from his video (See below)

https://youtu.be/Nahu9h1fitc

Gheem talks about his story, and CG recounts his story to his toughest project to date, his Level 1 certification. He went for the gusto, and not the simple tried and easy approach...because...he loved the challenge. LOL.

Daniel the Rocket n00b joins us to talk about his first major rocket project using an Airbrush to paint it off, and shares what he learned so far.

#78 NARCON 2019 coverage Part Three.

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Welcome to the final installment of our NARCON 2019 coverage!

We are joined by Wes Oleszewski who sits down to talk with us about Growing Up With Spaceflight, as well as some information on his retirement from Dr. Zooch Rockets, and some fond Dr. Zooch and model rocketry memories..

Also, John Beans of Jolly Logic stops by !

John joins us to talk about his presentation on "ROCKETRY 2.0". We explore some of the history behind the well known tech behind model rocketry, and how new technology can transform the hobby and take it to new levels!

 

#77 – NARCON 2019 Part Two

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This is an “all star” episode!

We’re joined by Tim Van Milligan from Apogee Rockets discuss an interesting collaboration project with Fins & Fire that gives your rocket the ability to paraglide its way home to you! 

Randy Boadway stops by to discus eRockets, and we end up in an interesting discussion about running a hobby rocket kit & supply company, including how the price of rocket kits are determined. He also showed up later to do a fun live eRockets commercial with us.

Randy Boadway, Owner of eRockets

Gary Rosenfield and Dan Bowles stop by to discus a long burn G motor that could give the right kind of rocket design the possibility of reaching 10,000 feet!

Dane Boles and Gary Rosenfield of Aerotech Consumer Aerospace

Roger Smith of JON Rocket stops by to talk about the joys of running the business with his wife, Bracha.

Roger Smith of JonRocket.Com

Wes Oleszewski joins us to discus his “Growing up with Spaceflight” books.

Wes Oleszewski, author of the Growing up with Spaceflight series of books.

John Beans also joins us and we talk Chute Release talk!

John Beans, Owner of Jolly Logic

We hope you have fun listening to Part Two of our NARCON 2019 coverage!

 

The Rocketry Show # 5.76: NARCON 2019 Part One

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The entire Rocketry Show team head to Cape Canaveral, Florida to cover NARCON 2019.  

CG, Daniel the Rocket n00b together for the first time!

They witness a night time Falcon 9 launch, Gheem and Daniel (The n00b) meet face to face for the first time, and we talk to Peter Alway, author of Rockets of the World, and Chris Michaelson of Oddl’ Rockets.

Peter Alway discussed with us his history with Model Rocketry, and his knack for finding detailed blueprints of even the most obscure rockets, which is great for us as he published it all in his book “Rockets of the World”, the rocketry bible for anyone interested in creating scale models of military & space rockets.

Chris Michaelson of Oddl’ Rockets

Chris amazed us with his talent in making detailed reproductions of rockets, and his never ending fountain of knowledge that can help all of us rocketeers!

Chris’ attention to detail is a thing to behold!  

Mike Nowak’s Saturn V

We also discus Mike Nowak’s amazing THREE STAGE Saturn V scale competition rocket!

 

Mike Nowak’s true scale, three stage flying Saturn V. His son stands guard.

[The Rocketry Show] #5.75: Workshop discussions!

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CG, Gheem, and Daniel the Rocket n00b get together to visit with you, and talk rocket shop talk.

CG has been busily editing through the TONS of audio we have from NARCON 2019, and it's taken over the production time for the show.  As a result, there is a delay in production.   We still have about two weeks of production to do before we roll out the first NARCON 2019 episode, so in the meantime, we decided to pick up our microphones and visit with you!

One of the topics of discussion is rolling your own transitions by re-purposing old cereal boxes.  A topic of discussion brought up by listener John Simmons on our Facebook Discussion Group.   CG thought it was a cool idea, so we shared.

Chris Michaelson has some discussions on rolling your own transitions on his blog too!   Look here:

http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot.com/search/label/Adapter

 

We also had fun discussing a fun new rocketry group on Facebook called "The CATO Club"  Where they post pictures of, and discus...CATOS.  :-)

The LOC Mafia: Helping a rocketeer in need!

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The LOC Mafia has organized to help the Hayes family of Stickershock.

From the The Loc Mafia:

Mark from StickerShock23 needs our help!  His wife Marian is suffering from an aggressive form of cancer, causing a huge difficulty in both of their lives. 

Mark, still presses on to help out the rocketry community by continuing to create wonderful full print vinyl wraps and decals for our projects. 

#theLOCmafia wants to help our fellow rocket brother and his family! Mark has been a huge contributor to the hobby for quite some time!

We have reached out to many vendors, some of whom we know personally, to help out with doing an Online Raffle for Mark and Marian!

On this page, you can read into some of the Grand Prize packages that we have arranged!

Details are here: thelocmafia.com

[The Rocketry Show] #5.73: Ken Patterson on Realistic Looking Modeling and Air Brushes! (Pt. Two)

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Here is Part two of our Airbrushes 101 episode with Ken Patterson!

Ken is an award winning modeler of military aircraft of all kinds, and shares techniques that he has honed and perfected continuously since his childhood, and he helps The Rocket n00b cross the hump into air brushing his models for the first time!

The Rocketry Show #: 5.74 Ellis Langford and Bill Stine of Estes Industries

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Ellis Langford and Bill Stine of Estes Industries join us to talk about the current state of Estes Industries, and look to the future by discussing a few of their plans for the company.

Image: Ellis Langford of Estes Industries.  (Photo: The Rocketry Show)

We had an enjoyable conversation that we think you all will like.