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Welcome to my Rocketry Photo Album!

Miscellaneous Photos


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This is where I will put a bunch of different photo's that have no special connection with anything other than being fun to view and special to me. Have fun!

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	Great friend of mine, Arni Paye, co-founder of the Goddard Society and NEMROC. He was my inspiration for OH so many years. Here he is preping one of his many boost gliders for launch. If it wasn't for Arni, I doubt if I would have had the courage to tackle these beasties (and their cousins, the Rocket Glider). Thanx Arni!
	Yep, it IS what you think it is.... a balsa wood wind up airplane attached to a booster pod... Hey, the dream was there, though the design lacking... needless to say, about 200 ms after that launch photo, she self distructed because the balsa couldn't take the stress of launch. HOWEVER, I did this a second time after putting tissue on the wings and fusalage and she turned in a wonderful flight!
	A collection of my maxi models at Perl River ModRoc seminiar. The Maxi-Mars Snooper (with mini-mars lander nosecone), Maxi-AstroCam (with working 35mm camera) on the Maxi Port-a-Pad, Maxi-CamRoc (with working 35mm camera), Maxi-Scout and Maxi-Orbital Transport.
	Corona, Model that I designed ast he anniversary kit for the New England Model ROcket Convention (NEMROC). First photo is it on the pad, second is moments after launch. A great design, giving true, straight flights time after time!
	Duce, another design of mine using a 2 engine cluster with the motors canted 15 degrees off center for a most unique exhaust on launch!
	USS Enterprise launch at NEMROC
	...imagine, if you will, a D12-3 moments after ignition, when... I captured this shot quite by accident when the boom and concussion of the kato'd motor caused my finger to twitch on the shutter button (I am SO glad of that! :-) Oh, and that's Chris Travaris's hat in the lower part of the pic S I can't recall who's this is, but it was at a NEMROC launch and may have been Len Feshkins (Len, was this yours??)
	The Early Goddard Society posing with our club launcher just before flying begins. It's hard to see, but I'm second from the left, kneeling. I am holding a flying scale model rocket of Robert Goddards first liquid fueled rocket.
	Here I am (many years ago...) giving a class at our local Middle School about model rocketry. That model that I am holding was designed by me and built by Jay Marsh to take the nationals at NARAM for Peanut Scale. A very proud day for me, and a shock when Jay sent the model to me as a thank you for permission to use my design. Jay, the model is in perfect shape and protected in a sealed dome. Thank you SO much. By the way, I still have those other Saturn 1B plans that we worked on OH so long ago. Drop me a note!
	The Chinese Junk. I built this rocket as an example that model rocketry need not be expensive. The model uses a Christmas wraping tube for the body, a notebook cover for fin material, a nosecone formed from card-stock and a launch lug from cardboard... Total cost of rocket, $0.18, total retail value: considerably less...
	Launch Tower. I loved this thing. It was a model rocket shaped like a rocket launch tower. I would put it on the pad along side another model rocket. At the end of the countdown, the crowd would stare, wondering what was wrong when they realized that the rocket stayed put, but the launch tower was streaking towards the sky!
	Maxi-AstroCam with built in 35 mm camera. beautiful flights on a 29mm motor or a cluster of 3 24mm with interchangeable motor mount
	A collection of my mini rockets. All of these are based on the BT-5. Pictured are the Sprite, Scout, X-Ray, EggLofter (robins egg??), Orbital Transport, Flying Saucer, Crayola Crayon, Mars Lander, Gyroc
	This model was flown at one of my clubs launches (Goddard Society, Merrimack, NH) Not sure who's rocket this is, but their NAR number (19138) is printed on the fin (perhaps indicating that this model was used in competition?) would love to know who owns this and what the models history is!
	A Maxi version of the NEMROC anniversary kit. This model boosted a BT70 body tube and stood over 3 feet tall using 24mm motor.
	One of my early pride-n-joys, the Richter Recker. This model was about 6 feet tall and over 2" diameter using a cluster of 3 D motors for unbelievable flights! I got many great flights out of this model till, one day, it drifted over a fence into another field. We could see it and opted to pick it up after our launch, as we had the press there. After the launch, we discovered that someone else had picked it up and we never saw it again... The 3rd of these 3 photo's shows what happens when you have a weak shock cord that should have been replaced...
	Two different Flying Saucers. The top photo is my 4:1 scaled up version using 29mm motors. The bottom photo is a standard (kit) saucer with my mini-flying saucer acting as an upperstage. Many wonderful flights in this mode.
	Scott Branche (i've found you Scott!) inspects his Kit-Bash at Pearl River, before judging
	Scott Branche STILL inspecting his Kit-Bash from Pearl River, LONG after judging... I finally got a hold of Scott via email. His first reply back to me was a note including this current pic of him with that same kit-bash of a Mars-Snooperette S (as Scott was quick to reminde me, "I never throw anything away!") Scott is now opening a hobby shop in Maryland and I wish him all the best! Wonderful to be back in touch too!
	Scott traded some Space Man nose cones to me and I wound up using them to make the cast of Star Trek, here is Mr. Spock.
	Here is what happens when you show no respect to the forces that act on a SuperRoc in flight...