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A surprisingly long flight!



[Edited on 4/6/05 by Dave Ashurst]

Nuts

they are weird people !

Not quite a jetpack but very close

fantastic

Stuart Ross (a Brit) has "flown" the first European Rocketbelt recently!

Bottle rockets were the subject of my Physics A-Level coursework.

0-200MPH is 1/4 second

So what do you think he said at the end???

he was probably a-wash with emotions

One to remember for when you have to organise a last minuit activety for a bunch of rowdy cub scouts.

I've run some summer schools where we built and flew water bottle rockets. We joined 6 x 2 litre coke bottles end to end. Very tall rocket. 120 psi gave about a 6 second blast. Very high altitude and covered the length of a rugby pitch.
they are very easy to make, they are based on Hoselock garden hose fittings. Bloody good summer activity !

The Clark cable tie launcher is far superior to hose fittings.

Google Search: Clark cable tie

And this place:

http://polyplex.org/cjh/rockets/

which I believe is the source for the Word Doc above has all sorts of instructions for building and shaping the rockets.