16 Apr
2004
16 Apr
'04
4:50 p.m.
At 10:30 PM 4/16/04 -0600, you wrote:
Oh yeah. Lets see you convince the Feds that that's all you wanted all
that saltpeter and sugar for! :-)
Joe
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi
> I used to make saltpeter and sugar rockets when I was a kid.
> To bad one can't get saltpeter anymore without signing your life away.
> I used to have about a 75% successful launch rate. The others
> would tend to clog the nozzle and blow up on the pad.
That's what we used to refer as a bomb on a stick!
I even
made a two
stage that the second stage went out of sight. A
couple minutes later, I saw the smoke trail and recovered the
top stage. All great fun.
Dwight
Why not turn your rocket hobby into profit. The X-Prize has not been
clamed yet. :)