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- From: jackson@sn.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Re: 8' rockets..
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.000652.4914@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <21DEC92.14157398.0054@music.mus.polymtl.ca>,<1992Dec22.172713.19553@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:06:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.172713.19553@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >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
-