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- Subject: Re: 8' rockets..
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:41:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.072747.2151@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
- >jackson@sn.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >:
- >: Getting a license to experiment with such rockets in the US is extremely
- >: difficult.
- >:
- >: Bill
- >: ...................
- >: I think this depends on what state you are in, I dont think here
- >: in Texas there are state laws restricting any kind of rocket
- >: building as long as you are not in a city or county that restricts
- >: fireworks, and maybe not even then.
- >
- >Well, the poster is in Canada, so our laws will not apply. However,
- >here in the US, I suspect that there are a bunch of federal laws that
- >would have to be complied with.
- >
- >Bill
-
- About all the laws I could think of right off the top of my head would be
- those by the FAA, laws on handling chemicals (but rocket fuels are not
- regulated, i.e. O2, alcohol, kerosine, but some more exotic stuff might
- be), and anything the local or state fire marshall might have set up. I
- would think in North Dakota, or anywhere there is alot of unrestricted
- air space, minimal controls on fireworks, and few people it would'nt be
- that hard to get permission to fly a liquid fuel rocket. The real trick
- might be finging a piece of land from which to launch. There might be
- a federal (state) land use permit required, and most private land is
- farmed/ranched (at least in my example of ND).
-
-
- ------
- Tim Harincar Millions long for immortality
- Central Minnesota who don't know what to do with
- Association of Rocketry themselves on a rainy Sunday
- soc1070@vx.cis.umn.edu afternoon. -Susan Ertz
-