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- From: bloom@inland.com
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Rocket powered R/C (Estes Astro Blaster)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.084411.2572@inland.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 08:44:11 CST
- References: <42995@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <LARRY.93Jan2233956@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> <C0ArBL.Jnt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <C0ArBL.Jnt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- > In article <LARRY.93Jan2233956@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
- >
- >>I thought rocket power was expressly forbidden for R/C work by the AMA. Or
- >>is it just airplanes that shoot rockets?
- >
- > Its planes that shoot rockets that are forbidden.
- >
- > I think the stipulation is a five pound weight limit and "G" total impulse
- > for an airplane that uses rocket motors as its primary means of propulsion.
- > I was thinking that this would not include, say, huge scale C-130s with
- > JATO packs, since the C-130 uses its engines for primary propulsion.
- >
- > It would, I think, be interesting to add R/C Rocket Glider and Boost Glider
- > as R/C and Free Flight events.
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- A friend of mine, Dr John Kallend, designed an interesting rocket
- powered R/C aerobatic glider. He's got it rigged up with a 2nd
- stage booster that he ignites with servo and on board glow.
- The plane will be the subject of a construction article
- soon in RCM. If there's any interest, I can get more information
- on the rules of AMA as applied to rockets.
-