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Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid Rocket Engines
Copyright 1967 by Leroy J. Krzycki
Combustibles Burning in Changing Pressures - Why ejection charges don't want to function in a vacuum
A dP/dt Failure Monograph by Bill Colburn
Redstone Arsenal
Propellant Mixing and Handling Protocols
MANUFACTURE OF CASTABLE COMPOSITE PROPELLANT ROCKET MOTORS, Chapter 24 Thanks to Hans Olaf Toft!
The Carbon Resistor Igniter
A white paper by the late Bob Dahlquist
Thiokol's "Rocket Basics", an excellent primer on rocketry
University Student Project Papers
Richard Nakka's 1984 Thesis on Solid Rocket Motors
UCI_Rocket_Project_2007-2008_ESRA_Competition.pdf
Active_Stabilized_rocket_Wyatt.pdf
Amateur Rocketry Pages:
Hans Olaf Toft's place in Frederiksberg, Denmark
An excellent site.
Richard Nakka's definitive site
A great list of amateur rocketry software from Rocketry.org
Near Space Balloon Tracker
aRocket's Homepage, lots of amateur links
aRocket listserver archives - searchable if you subscribe
Books
Online
Lots of historical and technical information
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Grove Mity-Mite Setting Instructions
Try finding this anywhere else on the Net!
Automatic Acceleration Actuated Tracking Smoke/Flare
How to use smoke candles to track your rocket
Load Cell Trouble Shooting
Figger out what's the matter with that pesky load cell
Load Cell Primer
Why they work and how to set them up
Pressure Transducer Primer
Why they work and how to set them up
Tank Tips - cleaning, hydrotesting, sealing and compatibility
How to get the most from your buck when buying used tanks
Making Fiberglass Tubes - by Tom Cloud
How to roll your own for fun and profit
How to Dye your parachute
Animated Knot Tying, a great resource for learning knots
Various Rocket Gizmos 1
All kinds of interesting stuff
Various Rocket Gizmos 2
More Interesting Stuff
Build
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Test Stand Pictorial
an assortment of rocket motor test stands from around the world
Nitrous Oxide Properties
Pressure, Density, and Mass Flow of N2O, 60k jpg image
Urbanski-Colburn Valve for Hybrid Motors
This is where the RATTWorks motor was born
Glossary of Rocket Terms
KNO3 Sugar Motor Basics
Sugar Propellant Motor Design.pdf
PotassiumNitrate_Sorbitol_motors.pdf
Rocketry Basics
Basic_rocketry_HARA_2003-10-01.pdf
Parachute Flare - 15' Flare Parachute Story from the Vietnam War
Skylighter Pyrotechnics
Firework and Pyrotechnic Chemicals. Harry Gilliam
is a terrific resource!
NASA's one stop search shop
Rocketry Online
Rocketry.Org
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Ejection Charge Calculator- for MS Excel
Black Powder Ejection Charges
A table to determine the correct amount of BP for your application
Round Parachute Descent Rate Calculator
A Javascript that does the calculations for you
X-form Parachute Calculator
How to calculate how fast your rocket will descend under an X-form parachute (Excel spreadsheet)
Parachute Drag Equations
How to calculate how fast your rocket will descend under chute
Tank Calculator
Calculate the volume of your cylindrical tank
Testing your Altimeter
An easy cheap way to pull a vacuum on your barometric sensor
Guipep - Graphical User Interface to PEP
GDL-Propep
Propep and more
Open Source Rocket Calculator
OpenRocket is a Free, fully featured model rocket simulator written in Java
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Historical Rocketry Resources
Hypergolic Propellants From The Ft. Bliss Debriefing Of German Scientists
"Operation Paperclip"
A compilation of secret World War Two rocket propellants
Thiokol Rocket Basics
a great .pdf about the history of rocket motors and their basic design
1949 Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program
Manual on rockets from the Civil Air Patrol and it has a great schematic diagram of the V2 Rocket, 4 meg .pdf file
Army Guide to Amateur Rocketry
Bob Fortune's Navaho Webpage
A look at the Navaho Cruise Missile undergoing reconstruction at
Cape Canaveral
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Exploding Ratt Movie
Why you don't test your hybrid in your garage
- 1.1 MB wmv file
Cletus and Delmar Score a Dewar
How LOX can kill you, your pals, and friends a mile away
- 660k PowerPoint file
Explosive Injuries
What happens when you blow yourself up
- an assortment of graphic images not for the faint of heart
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