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Mark June 17-19, 2005 down on your calendars.  The North East Regional Rocket Festival will be the areas premier event of the year.  See the official NERRF website for more details.

SpaceShip-1 wins the X-Prize.  Congratulations to the scaled team!  10-4-04 the birth of a new space age.

Congratulations Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites for getting half way to the X-Prize and all the way into space! 

Due to a family emergency I can not attend LDRS, I hope that those of you going all have a great time.  The online album has the LDRS days all unlocked so please feel free to upload your pics of LDRS to share.

Combined CTRA - METRA launch calendar back online.  Click on Launch Calendar on the right hand navigation panel.

On-Line Album added!
Upload your favorite rocketry pictures and vote on them.  Special LDRS section ready and waiting for LDRS pictures

L3 project postponed.  Due to increased demands at work I am unable to complete my L3 project in time for LDRS.

S.S. Eclipse flies wireless video payload again.  Go to the Movie Roc page.

Completed Jeff Taylor's EX class.
If you are interested in EX stop by the LOKI site and see when he's offering it again, you will not be disappointed.

Joined Rocketry Top 50
Before you leave click on the TOP 50 link to vote for this site

Combined Launch Calendar Added!
All CTRA & METRA launches included
See link on right side of page

L3 project construction begins.
check the L3 page for updates

Salvatore Pais responds to my comments about his article in the Homeland Defense Journal.
See his email to me and my response on the HomePage.

Nor-East launch season begins
OK folks time to dust off the rockets, its flying time
Check CTRA-NARCONN and METRA sites for schedules.

Loki Research becomes a Tripoli Certified Motor manufacturer
while there are no certified motors yet, we can look forward to having more motor choices

 

  

L3 Page 2


 

In The Beginning

As stated on the previous page I have decided to take up the challenge of certifying L3.

Step 1 was to purchase the parts, in this case a kit.  The Smokin' Rockets 7.5 inch Amraam, a very close to full scale model of the AIM-120 air to air missile.  The real Aim120 is 7 inch diameter and 12 feet long, mine will be the same length but 7.5 inch diameter.

Step 2 was to find two Tripoli TAP members to review my project as it progresses.  The two great people who have the unenviable task of monitoring my insanity are:
Bill Rossi, NJ - owner of Smokin' Rockets
David Wilkins, VIC Australia - Tripoli Australia

Step 3 is to begin to document everything, so below are the obligatory photos of the main parts of the rocket.  Not shown is the miscellaneous hardware such as the u-bolts, harnesses and chutes, etc.

Click on thumbnail for full size

Amraam Kit

Here are the parts from the kit. The airframe sections are PML pre-glassed 7.51 inch tubing. The nosecone is a PML fiberglass 7.51 nosecone. The motor mount is a 98mm PML tube. Two couplers and a short piece of airframe are shown next to the nose cone. At the bottom are 4 centering rings and 3 bulkheads.

Amraam Kit

Another view of the parts

Fins

On the left are the four canards and on the right the four main fins.


 

 

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