Ok, so.. I just made a rocket launcher out of a 5 foot long, 4" diam. piece of PVC pipe(I couldnt find the 6" kind). So now I have to make a rocket for it. This i find to be a problem, I made one that was just a rocket engine with 4 fins glued on to the sides and a stabilizer in the front but as soon as it came out of the barrel it just spun around.

Any suggestions for a type of rocket and/or something i could make, please let me know.

[This message has been edited by harry_bosetti (edited 07-12-2003).]

I have been thinking about this stuff latley and was thinking of how to make an affective militia rocket launcher...a model rocket engine, some container with black powder and some kind of blasting cap... maybe a few snap pops lol... anyways if you think it might work try it, oh yeah fins on the rocket, thats just common sense

see if you like the rocket concept in this thread http://www.totse.com/bbs/Forum19/HTML/003728.html

A rocket engine with some fins glued to it is just a crappy rocket that probably wouldn't fly good off of a regular launch rod either. If the rocket is crappy then it will fly crappy. Personally I think you should take a small diameter tube(like 1.5") and launch bottle rocket style rockets out of it just scaled up bottle rockets.

Lol, I wish I would have had that shitty rocket on camera, I laughed so hard. It was great.

I guess Im just going to make my own rockets for now, out of stiff cardboard, and make my own cones on the front, im going to try and put something that is sensitive to impact in the front, it should all be good

well when i was at my launch competition and we were all pounding back a 5 gallon bubba can we took a length of pipe the smae dia. as the out dia. of a D12 engine then i drilled a hole right beside the cardboardinto the clay and i placed a bamboo scewer in it and glued it into place then i stuck the igniters in and the plug slung it over my sholder and placed the engine in the tube then i got my other drunked buddy to stand beside me and touch the igniters with a 9V battery lol needless to say we got some stable and unstable flights and almost caught some guys tent on fire ... good fun though we probally shot about 20 of em into the next feild over tryign to hit sleeping cows at 1 or 2 AM i think the smart idea would to have been have a sswitch next time instead of a drunk friend with a battery but hey whatcha going to do lol

haha, damn i wish i was at that whole rocket thing

On a side note, what was that site on how to make a cheap charcoal cooker???

Thanks

quote:Originally posted by harry_bosetti:

On a side note, what was that site on how to make a cheap charcoal cooker???

Thanks

Backed up by DTP: http://members.lycos.co.uk/davidthepyro/DanWilliams/top.html

[This message has been edited by john_doe_pyro (edited 07-13-2003).]

To build a rocket that will fly straight go here:

http://library.thinkquest.org/10568/design/stability.html

For lots of other information on model rocketry, go to the main site here:

http://library.thinkquest.org/10568/