Rocket Stability - or - What Happened To Homer's Rocket? (Part 1) A few months ago, because of a recommendation from Chad , I read Homer Hickam's book Rocket Boys . This was adapted into the film October Sky , starring Jake Gyllenhaal. In 1957, after the launch of Sputnik, Hickam became obsessed with building his own rockets. But model rocketry hadn't really ...
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Stability - or - What Happened to Homer's Rocket (Part 2) Click here for Part 1 When I was a kid, I found this strange book in a library - I forget the title. It was written in the 1960's, and was a kind of activity book with various crafts you could do to pretend you were living in the stone age. One of these crafts was to make a spear from a broom ...
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Stability - or - What Happened to Homer's Rocket? (Part 3) - Finding the CP: Method 1 This is the continuation of an older series of posts on model rocket stability for beginners - rocket n00bs. Click here to return to Part 1 , and here for Part 2 . In the previous posts on model rocket stability, we talked about Center of Gravity (CG) and Center of Pressure (CP) on a rocket, and ...
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Stability - or - What Happened to Homer's Rocket? (Part 4) - Finding the CP: Method 1 Continued
This is a continuation of a series on model rocket stability for beginners. Click here to go go the beginning of the series. Click here to read the last post. Last time, we discussed the earliest method of finding the Center of Pressure (CP) on a model rocket - the cutout method. This simple ...
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