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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: 8' rockets..
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.172713.19553@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <21DEC92.14157398.0054@music.mus.polymtl.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:27:13 GMT
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- CT80@music.mus.polymtl.ca (Steph) writes:
- :
- : We are a Montreal-based amateur club building experimental rockets.
- : Our first one was 16kg, just over 5'. We are currently working on
- : a second one which should reach around 26kg, 8', complete with its
- : own inboard computer and all the hooplas. The problem is this :
- : the only clubs that we _know_ of that also make these kind of rockets
- : are in Europe. Last year we had to fly oversea just to launch our
- : rocket (using a French booster, too). Problem is this : it's not
- : very practical for us, and *I* couldn't go cuz the travel fares were
- : way too steep for me. So I'm looking for people, addresses, anything,
- : anyone.. there has to be other clubs like us in North America! If
- : you know of a place, if the place is you, or if you know there is
- : another, better suited newsgroup than this one, please let me know.
-
- It sounds like you are going far beyond model rocketry and High Power
- Rocketry. If so, then you will have a difficult time finding kindred
- souls. There are one or two universities that have student projects
- using liquid fuels or rockets constructed out of metal. I do not recall
- which schools they are, however.
-
- Getting a license to experiment with such rockets in the US is extremely
- difficult.
-
- Bill
-