It was a rocket day in Minnesota... I have been mentoring the 12 year old son of a friend for almost 8 years, today he flew his rocket on an H motor to 2400 ft, at over 450 mph. This earned him the cerification level 1 and he is now allowed to fly high power rockets.

#rocket #highpowerrocketry #modelrocketry

Looking the empty core of this roll of Tamiya making tape (for painting models) and wondering how much of standard airframe diameters in #ModelRocketry were driven by thing like making tape rolls and commercial paper tubes.

Between my drive up to the Hudson Valley on Monday, and home again this afternoon, I made exactly 2.5 simplex contacts on 146.52, caught up on 2 episodes of #HamRadioWorkbench, and one episode of @therocketryshow

So overall I'd say not a bad commute😀

#HamRadio
#ModelRocketry

It's amazing how many things are muscle memory ... if you can wake those memories. #art #modelrocketry
Making progress on ol’R2-D2, now with silver highlights. Meanwhile, Peterson was pitching a complete game for the Mets in the background. #ModelRocketry
Long day. Crazy world. Taking a break with more R2D2 paint work, now with masking! #ModelRocketry
Progress on R2-D2. #ModelRocketry
Painting #R2D2’s head. #ModelRocketry

Building the #R2D2 flying model rocket. R2 drew first blood as I tried to whittle down some excess plastic with an E-Xacto knife.

The kit is from the 1970s and DAMN that plastic is tough! #ModelRocketry

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