For a while now I have been shooting rockets with my kids down at the park. It’s fun and we get the bug once or twice a year to go out and shoot some more. I have a friend who has taken it to the next level and joined a model rocket club and gotten his Level 1 certification for high power rockets. This is getting serious. So I am getting the bug to step up my game. I went out to my local club launch the other day and I got more excited. My problem is that it gets expensive quick and I don’t really want to spend $20 or more for each rocket engine that I use. So I am in the research stage right now. It turns out that there are a lot of different angles when it comes to rocketry. I am going to use this post as a way to store links to sites that I find useful or at least interesting. If these links are useful to you then let me know.
general rocketry information
Rocketry Planet
Rocket Reviews
rocketry parts
Red Arrow Hobbies
Estes Rocketry
learningthings.com
HobbyLinc seem to have good discounts on rockets
Apogee Rockets
rocket motors / rocket fuels / rocket chemicals
RCS
Musketeer (black powder)
making charcoal
Sky Lighter
ODA (ignition)
Aerocon (nichrome)
Quickburst (ematch)
Quickburst (pyrogen)
shock cords
Firefox FX
Pyro Creations
build your own rocket motor
James Yawn
black powder motor
local rocketry club
Superstition Spacemodeling Society
rocket doc