Monday(6/11/2017)
Greetings people, I'm back again, and I'm still remembering that disaster with the Dooms Day of rockets, which had been cancelled which also put an end to the Rocket club in Toodyay. I've been thinking about what will this be like if the history went differently? That might have a positive/negative outcome, the positive outcome would have been, the Farm will be fully prepared for use and we have the go for launching for all our rockets. The negative outcome would have been, the farm was fully prepared for us and then it was snatched from us by other people (Who are NOT members of our club), but we could still have our actual site for the club at Toodyay as long the CAS thing lasted longer but that was never going to happen which was a major impact on me and on the club.
I think this is where it ends for this year, but I might be back with one last blog post to end this year of homemade rockets, but unfortunately my time of rocketry is finished for now until the start of 2019, because next year is my last year of high school, I'll be in year 12 and it's going to be the most challenging year yet. Because there's going to be a lot of work coming my way, so I need to stop rocketry for a year so I'm ready for what's coming.
Sunday(3/12/2017)
I really wanted to go, but some people say "There are things we just can't change". I shall move on and look forward, not too much on looking back, and I shall begin soon. Until then, see you later.
Saturday, 2 December 2017
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
A very exciting end for the year, (CANCELLED)
Greetings people, yes I know, I'm back with another blog post but unfortunately I have some bad news. The Dooms day of Rockets has been Cancelled, plus we have no other launch dates left for the year which is a really disappointing for me and all the other club members and worse, the club at Toodyay is now out of use forever. Maybe forever but that's probably what's it's going to be for the rest of the time.
Before I continue, you may have been wondering why it's been a while since I've last posted a blog post, is because I've been on a 5 week holiday in Europe since the start of the school holidays and since I've came back, I've never made another blog post for this blog since I came back but now I decided to make this blog post for the sad news.
So how did this all happen is some what up setting, since the President of the club, Phillip left the club, up until now the PAC thing that gave the club insurance was now out of action so we no longer have insurance for any rocket launches for now on. Also the Farm area is now being used by someone else before we have a chance to use it. Jeremy told us all about the information on Facebook and that to me was a big set back because I was so ready for it and now it's cancelled.
(14/09/2017)
For now on, until the end of next year, I won't be doing any model rocket building or launching, because '2018' is going to be a very busy year and there will be a lot of work to do for school and I won't be doing rocketry for 'that' year as I speak. But don't worry, I still can make blog posts of rockets but not for the holiday one because '2018' is a "No holiday Year" and then on '2019' I will be back to rocket building and I'll be ready for anything including the next holiday during that year, which is going to the United States of America and during that I'll be going to NASA for the first time, but that is less than 2 years to come.
I'll be back so I can give more information of what's happening with rockets and then, whenever I come back with more blog posts and until next time, See you soon.
Before I continue, you may have been wondering why it's been a while since I've last posted a blog post, is because I've been on a 5 week holiday in Europe since the start of the school holidays and since I've came back, I've never made another blog post for this blog since I came back but now I decided to make this blog post for the sad news.
So how did this all happen is some what up setting, since the President of the club, Phillip left the club, up until now the PAC thing that gave the club insurance was now out of action so we no longer have insurance for any rocket launches for now on. Also the Farm area is now being used by someone else before we have a chance to use it. Jeremy told us all about the information on Facebook and that to me was a big set back because I was so ready for it and now it's cancelled.
(14/09/2017)
For now on, until the end of next year, I won't be doing any model rocket building or launching, because '2018' is going to be a very busy year and there will be a lot of work to do for school and I won't be doing rocketry for 'that' year as I speak. But don't worry, I still can make blog posts of rockets but not for the holiday one because '2018' is a "No holiday Year" and then on '2019' I will be back to rocket building and I'll be ready for anything including the next holiday during that year, which is going to the United States of America and during that I'll be going to NASA for the first time, but that is less than 2 years to come.
I'll be back so I can give more information of what's happening with rockets and then, whenever I come back with more blog posts and until next time, See you soon.
Monday, 26 June 2017
The Adventure 1
Greetings people, I know I haven't made a blog for a few weeks and now I'm back with another blog post, this one will be explaining about the rocket I built which is the Adventure 1, mostly the materials I used for it and the explanation of how it was being built with these materials.
I'll start with the explanation of the rocket itself, The Adventure 1 is my first, well the only homemade rocket I have and built for now, colored yellow and red (Red on the nosecone), for that the rocket is not fully complete, it still needs its last bits of painting on the fins and paint writing on the body of the rocket but the rest of it makes it mostly complete and to me it looks really good and even when it first launched 3 weeks ago, it performed really well as I expected it to. It flew nearly in a straight line, the motor didn't explode and the parachute performed perfectly, the extra best bit is because of the wind, it floated down wards being blown back to the launch site well landed very close by so I didn't have to walk so far to find it.
Now I'll get on with the materials that were used for each component. Starting with the motor mount, the production of the motor mount starts with the cylinder like motor casing which is made from a toilet role which was cut into a fin sheet of cardboard and wrapped around with a bead of glue at the same time while an motor which was used is what the cardboard is wrapping around. Once the glue is dry, I then made the 2 rings that go over the tube, my Dad helped me with it as I did the start which didn't quite had the right fitting but when he did his way and I did what he did, I managed to succeed and made slight adjustments. the rod that's holding the motor in is made from a paper clip which Dad bent into a straight rod and then made the measurements and bent it into shape and it looked perfect. The fins are from a sheet of cardboard just like the 2 rings on the motor mount, I made a template first made a design of the fin on Autodesk Inventor, then drew the cut out lines on the cardboard and cut them all out, as I glued all 4 of them on the rocket, I used pins instead of blue tack to hold the fins in place then glued the edges of the fins that are in contact with the body of the rocket and applied them with arraldite.
The nose-cone was a challenge to build, took 1 or 2 days to figure out how to build one when Dad came up with a solution by cutting rectangles without cutting them out, folding them inwards to form a spiral cone and gluing it on the inside and outside and applying it with arraldite, then making the divider along with a pink rope going through it and attaching the other end of the rope was an elastic band that was attached to the side of the rocket where Dad poked 2 holes in it to slide in the elastic band. And now the Parachute, the parachute is made out of a David Jones shopping bag which was cut into nearly a circle shape with a frying pan and then attaching about 8 sets of string each side of the string attached to each 2 holes for each set of string, attaching it to the nose-cone and we are done.
The Rocket is just about complete, although the rocket has been painted Yellow for the entire rocket and red on the nose-cone but it still needs to be painted with black on the fins and with black or red Paint writing then it's finished. This is where the blog post ends, not the actual blog but just the blog post, I will be back with more and I'll be making another blog but this time on my second European holiday so until next time, Bye.
3/10/2017
Here's the video of the rocket launching:
You'll see here, the Adventure 1 rocket takes off after I've finished the 5 second count down which has been cut short to 1 second. That occurred on (28/05/2017)...
I'll start with the explanation of the rocket itself, The Adventure 1 is my first, well the only homemade rocket I have and built for now, colored yellow and red (Red on the nosecone), for that the rocket is not fully complete, it still needs its last bits of painting on the fins and paint writing on the body of the rocket but the rest of it makes it mostly complete and to me it looks really good and even when it first launched 3 weeks ago, it performed really well as I expected it to. It flew nearly in a straight line, the motor didn't explode and the parachute performed perfectly, the extra best bit is because of the wind, it floated down wards being blown back to the launch site well landed very close by so I didn't have to walk so far to find it.
Now I'll get on with the materials that were used for each component. Starting with the motor mount, the production of the motor mount starts with the cylinder like motor casing which is made from a toilet role which was cut into a fin sheet of cardboard and wrapped around with a bead of glue at the same time while an motor which was used is what the cardboard is wrapping around. Once the glue is dry, I then made the 2 rings that go over the tube, my Dad helped me with it as I did the start which didn't quite had the right fitting but when he did his way and I did what he did, I managed to succeed and made slight adjustments. the rod that's holding the motor in is made from a paper clip which Dad bent into a straight rod and then made the measurements and bent it into shape and it looked perfect. The fins are from a sheet of cardboard just like the 2 rings on the motor mount, I made a template first made a design of the fin on Autodesk Inventor, then drew the cut out lines on the cardboard and cut them all out, as I glued all 4 of them on the rocket, I used pins instead of blue tack to hold the fins in place then glued the edges of the fins that are in contact with the body of the rocket and applied them with arraldite.
The nose-cone was a challenge to build, took 1 or 2 days to figure out how to build one when Dad came up with a solution by cutting rectangles without cutting them out, folding them inwards to form a spiral cone and gluing it on the inside and outside and applying it with arraldite, then making the divider along with a pink rope going through it and attaching the other end of the rope was an elastic band that was attached to the side of the rocket where Dad poked 2 holes in it to slide in the elastic band. And now the Parachute, the parachute is made out of a David Jones shopping bag which was cut into nearly a circle shape with a frying pan and then attaching about 8 sets of string each side of the string attached to each 2 holes for each set of string, attaching it to the nose-cone and we are done.
The Rocket is just about complete, although the rocket has been painted Yellow for the entire rocket and red on the nose-cone but it still needs to be painted with black on the fins and with black or red Paint writing then it's finished. This is where the blog post ends, not the actual blog but just the blog post, I will be back with more and I'll be making another blog but this time on my second European holiday so until next time, Bye.
3/10/2017
Here's the video of the rocket launching:
Sunday, 28 May 2017
Launch day Aftermath
Greetings people, I'm back and with exciting news. I had a great day at the rocket club and with my first scratch rocket, I've got 2 very successful launches of it, it flew straight and the parachute made from a 'David Jones' shopping bag has successfully done it's job and everything came down safely without any damage at all. But just a scratch of the paint job in the straws because they have a ruff surface making it hard for the paint to hold on.
Well, for the rest of the day, I've watched all the other rockets from Frank, Jeremy, Steve and Peter take to the skies, they were quite loud because these rockets were big, if you were there, you'll need to wear some ear plugs. Believe me, it can hurt your ears easily.
These are the photos of the Adventure 1 that were taken today
(29/05/2017): Everything went really well over there yesterday but the bad thing was, I got so tired when we got back home and last night we had to get ready for bed at 9:00 PM. Well, I'll continue this blog post and with a video of the launch of the Adventure 1 from my Dad's phone and until next time, good bye.
Well, for the rest of the day, I've watched all the other rockets from Frank, Jeremy, Steve and Peter take to the skies, they were quite loud because these rockets were big, if you were there, you'll need to wear some ear plugs. Believe me, it can hurt your ears easily.
(29/05/2017): Everything went really well over there yesterday but the bad thing was, I got so tired when we got back home and last night we had to get ready for bed at 9:00 PM. Well, I'll continue this blog post and with a video of the launch of the Adventure 1 from my Dad's phone and until next time, good bye.
Saturday, 27 May 2017
Day before Launch
Greetings people, I'm back again and with more good news, my rocket is just about complete, nosecone is painted, parachute is made, motor mount installed even the elastic band is installed. And one last bit of good news, the second launch day of rockets is tomorrow and we have a "Go for Launch", and just hoping that it stays that way.
It was frustrating that I've missed the previous launch day because the rocket is not ready but now, for tomorrow, it will. And I'll be there, for the first time of this year but second day of launching rockets and it will be a great time meeting all the other club members again including Phillip who is the President of the club.
It won't be long until I launch the Adventure 1 which is the rocket I was building for the first time, recovering it and preparing it for another flight. I'll have to end this blog now, it will be a long day tomorrow, although I need to wake up in the morning, get ready, pack the car and head off mostly by 7:00 AM because heading to the club is a 2 hour drive, well, all the best for tomorrow, Bye
It was frustrating that I've missed the previous launch day because the rocket is not ready but now, for tomorrow, it will. And I'll be there, for the first time of this year but second day of launching rockets and it will be a great time meeting all the other club members again including Phillip who is the President of the club.
It won't be long until I launch the Adventure 1 which is the rocket I was building for the first time, recovering it and preparing it for another flight. I'll have to end this blog now, it will be a long day tomorrow, although I need to wake up in the morning, get ready, pack the car and head off mostly by 7:00 AM because heading to the club is a 2 hour drive, well, all the best for tomorrow, Bye
Saturday, 20 May 2017
Near completion
Greetings people, I'm back again and this time with good news. The rocket is near completion, nosecone is nearly ready to be attached to the rocket, once the nosecone is attached, the motor mount will be installed to the backside of the rocket which then if for today will be ready for painting and then the recovery system will be installed and the rocket will be ready for its first launch but for now the straws are now being glued to the rocket.
Some of you might think on what will it be like if the rocket was launching into the sky, I'll do a video of that and I'll take some photos of it even before it launches. The problem is it might be only a week to go until the next launch day at the rocket club but the rocket will be ready until the time comes. I'm so looking forward for the first launch of this first homemade rocket and even when it parachutes down to the ground but there will be some issues with the launch days, mostly the weather because the weather will cause the launch to be canceled if it's rainy, windy or stormy. These are such problems that can't be solved for the launch days.
Although the rocket will be ready with all the kits so it will fly with them on that day and soon, it will mark my point of building rockets to a whole new level and then I'll soon be able to continue building, building and building until I start building huge rockets and mark my hobby closer to the point that I'll create my first liquid fuel rocket but liquid fuel rockets are a lot more dangerous to all the other rockets because liquid fuel rockets keep their fuel and oxidizer in 2 separate tanks but 1 spark can easily cause ignition.
I'll be back for next time although next Sunday maybe launch day but the days after that will get up to exam weeks but no problem, I'll get back to what I'm doing after the exams when they're over. And until next time see you soon.
Some of you might think on what will it be like if the rocket was launching into the sky, I'll do a video of that and I'll take some photos of it even before it launches. The problem is it might be only a week to go until the next launch day at the rocket club but the rocket will be ready until the time comes. I'm so looking forward for the first launch of this first homemade rocket and even when it parachutes down to the ground but there will be some issues with the launch days, mostly the weather because the weather will cause the launch to be canceled if it's rainy, windy or stormy. These are such problems that can't be solved for the launch days.
Although the rocket will be ready with all the kits so it will fly with them on that day and soon, it will mark my point of building rockets to a whole new level and then I'll soon be able to continue building, building and building until I start building huge rockets and mark my hobby closer to the point that I'll create my first liquid fuel rocket but liquid fuel rockets are a lot more dangerous to all the other rockets because liquid fuel rockets keep their fuel and oxidizer in 2 separate tanks but 1 spark can easily cause ignition.
I'll be back for next time although next Sunday maybe launch day but the days after that will get up to exam weeks but no problem, I'll get back to what I'm doing after the exams when they're over. And until next time see you soon.
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Work Delayed
Greetings people and again, I'm back. I've got some bad news, this Sunday is the first Launch day at the rocket club of the year but that's not bad news but the bad news is that the rocket is not going to be complete until that day comes.
The work of the rocket is indeed falling behind schedule and is a problem that I can't solve until the rocket is complete. I might be responsible for falling behind schedule because of some things of doing nothing, playing games on my computer or other electronic devices and forgetting that I need to continue work on my rocket.
Although I've got to put all that behind me and look forward to my goal and succeed this goal and then I will be able to go on with my next goal of building huge model rockets which will be in the up coming future.
(8/05/2017): Yesterday was the first day of rocket launching but I couldn't go because of homework and has some stuff to do with the rocket but I've got a while to go until the rocket is complete, I'll not be heading over to the rocket club until the rocket is complete when ever I like it or not but it's the choice I have go/don't go. Choice is if the rocket is finished or not.
The construction is still falling behind schedule, the motor mount is still to be installed, the nosecone is still to be complete and installed, the fins are still to be applied with araldite, the recovery system is to be installed, the straw is to be installed even the rocket is to be painted.
I'll be back with another blog, although this will not stop, it will keep on going and going and going until I move on to my next blog which is to build big rockets. So Bye
The work of the rocket is indeed falling behind schedule and is a problem that I can't solve until the rocket is complete. I might be responsible for falling behind schedule because of some things of doing nothing, playing games on my computer or other electronic devices and forgetting that I need to continue work on my rocket.
Although I've got to put all that behind me and look forward to my goal and succeed this goal and then I will be able to go on with my next goal of building huge model rockets which will be in the up coming future.
(8/05/2017): Yesterday was the first day of rocket launching but I couldn't go because of homework and has some stuff to do with the rocket but I've got a while to go until the rocket is complete, I'll not be heading over to the rocket club until the rocket is complete when ever I like it or not but it's the choice I have go/don't go. Choice is if the rocket is finished or not.
The construction is still falling behind schedule, the motor mount is still to be installed, the nosecone is still to be complete and installed, the fins are still to be applied with araldite, the recovery system is to be installed, the straw is to be installed even the rocket is to be painted.
I'll be back with another blog, although this will not stop, it will keep on going and going and going until I move on to my next blog which is to build big rockets. So Bye
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Assignment Finished
Greetings people again, I'm back and with another blog post, I've got some news, the rocket is getting close to completion, the day of launching at the Perth rocket club is getting closer and the English blogging assignment was finished at the end of last term.
I know that some of you might not know who I am but you will in the first blog but don't know what I look like. So soon the valence of me will be lifted and you all will know. It will be in a video and if you want to see it, you'll have to be prepared. Doesn't matter if you are or not but the video will come soon enough.
Some people in my English class have wondered when I'll get going to lunching day at the club and I have good news and that is 'The Fire ban is over'. It all ended at the start of this term. Well I hope you all are waiting to see some launches in the first launch day so be ready to find out.
I know that some of my class mates of my English class have decided not to continue on with their blogs as some others have decided to continued on like I have and I'm not ready to stop, just too early but I might have some breaks or you might not see some other blogs because I'll be busy working on my rocket or some other rockets that are built from scratch.
I'll be heading off now, I've got some other homework to do and for next time and for some new people, I'm Daniel Burmas and see you people later.
I know that some of you might not know who I am but you will in the first blog but don't know what I look like. So soon the valence of me will be lifted and you all will know. It will be in a video and if you want to see it, you'll have to be prepared. Doesn't matter if you are or not but the video will come soon enough.
Some people in my English class have wondered when I'll get going to lunching day at the club and I have good news and that is 'The Fire ban is over'. It all ended at the start of this term. Well I hope you all are waiting to see some launches in the first launch day so be ready to find out.
I know that some of my class mates of my English class have decided not to continue on with their blogs as some others have decided to continued on like I have and I'm not ready to stop, just too early but I might have some breaks or you might not see some other blogs because I'll be busy working on my rocket or some other rockets that are built from scratch.
I'll be heading off now, I've got some other homework to do and for next time and for some new people, I'm Daniel Burmas and see you people later.
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Section completed
Greetings people, I'm back once again with another blog post and this time, I've got some good news, I've completed a section of the rocket it self. The section that I've completed was the one with the fins and it was perfect.
What I attended to do with my Dad for details is first calculating the circumference of the external diameter of the body of the rocket, then using a piece of paper and mark some dots on the line that are a right over the other lines that the edge of the paper has overlapped, halving the circumference and then calculate the quarter of the circumference to get the marks on the paper to draw the lines for where the fins are going to be placed, pinning the fins on the rocket to make it easier to glue the fins but with two pins and then glue the fins and then wait for the glue to dry.
(23/04/2017): The fins have already dried up and connected to the rocket but the fins are not completely finished, with the glue alone, the fins are not strong enough to stay attached to the rocket. The glue is not super glue, the fins will break off on impact on the surface after parachuting down. The solution to that is to use what is called araldite which is a mix of two araldite glues which mixes together to form the glue but needs to be applied on fast before it dries out.
There are other problems, the nosecone is still to be made but there are only three prototypes already made and still the actual nosecone is not yet being built. Later today, I will start work on the nosecone and then I'll be getting closer to completing the rocket but the other thing is the parachute which is vital to the rocket it self but I have a choice, try to find a parachute in a hobby store or I'll just have to make one myself.
(26/04/2017): I'm unable to post a photo to this blog post from my photo files or my phone but sometime soon, I'll be able to post a photo from my school computer.
What I attended to do with my Dad for details is first calculating the circumference of the external diameter of the body of the rocket, then using a piece of paper and mark some dots on the line that are a right over the other lines that the edge of the paper has overlapped, halving the circumference and then calculate the quarter of the circumference to get the marks on the paper to draw the lines for where the fins are going to be placed, pinning the fins on the rocket to make it easier to glue the fins but with two pins and then glue the fins and then wait for the glue to dry.
(23/04/2017): The fins have already dried up and connected to the rocket but the fins are not completely finished, with the glue alone, the fins are not strong enough to stay attached to the rocket. The glue is not super glue, the fins will break off on impact on the surface after parachuting down. The solution to that is to use what is called araldite which is a mix of two araldite glues which mixes together to form the glue but needs to be applied on fast before it dries out.
There are other problems, the nosecone is still to be made but there are only three prototypes already made and still the actual nosecone is not yet being built. Later today, I will start work on the nosecone and then I'll be getting closer to completing the rocket but the other thing is the parachute which is vital to the rocket it self but I have a choice, try to find a parachute in a hobby store or I'll just have to make one myself.
(26/04/2017): I'm unable to post a photo to this blog post from my photo files or my phone but sometime soon, I'll be able to post a photo from my school computer.
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Running through Problems
Greetings People, I'm back, it's been quite a while since the last blog I've sent but doesn't matter, and I'm going through okay. Today is the School Holidays, giving me a good time to work on my first rocket but the only thing is I'm running through a set back which is the nosecone.
The reason why it's a set back, is because as Mum and I looked through in the shed with the unfinished kits or kits that haven't been built yet, the nosecones that they have don't fit the rocket I'm building and the ones that have already been built don't fit the rocket, some are too big, the most of them are a bit small.
For that information, that forces us to build a homemade nosecone but with different strategies of how to make one like from balsa wood with a wood Lathe.Unfortunately I can't get an image that matches the strategy because it will affect the security of the blogger.com.
Or from balsa wood (same material) but as sheets, bent to take shape. Unfortunately I can't get an image to match the strategy I'm talking about, although as I've found the one I'm looking for, I couldn't be able to copy the image and send it on this Blog Post.
Maybe with plastic from a 3D Printer. I'm also unable to view an image for this stratagy because of the same thing for the one for the wood lathe. Doing it with a 3D printer is tricky but it requires a computer to make a computerized model of the nosecone and then printed from the printer machine and cleaning up the over hangs from the printed model.
Well, that's all for today, if there's anything else I need to add, I'll put it on my blog so I hope you people would understand what I'm saying. See you guys around.
The reason why it's a set back, is because as Mum and I looked through in the shed with the unfinished kits or kits that haven't been built yet, the nosecones that they have don't fit the rocket I'm building and the ones that have already been built don't fit the rocket, some are too big, the most of them are a bit small.
For that information, that forces us to build a homemade nosecone but with different strategies of how to make one like from balsa wood with a wood Lathe.Unfortunately I can't get an image that matches the strategy because it will affect the security of the blogger.com.
Or from balsa wood (same material) but as sheets, bent to take shape. Unfortunately I can't get an image to match the strategy I'm talking about, although as I've found the one I'm looking for, I couldn't be able to copy the image and send it on this Blog Post.
Maybe with plastic from a 3D Printer. I'm also unable to view an image for this stratagy because of the same thing for the one for the wood lathe. Doing it with a 3D printer is tricky but it requires a computer to make a computerized model of the nosecone and then printed from the printer machine and cleaning up the over hangs from the printed model.
Well, that's all for today, if there's anything else I need to add, I'll put it on my blog so I hope you people would understand what I'm saying. See you guys around.
Saturday, 25 March 2017
The Past
Greetings people, I know, I'm back once again with another video. I'm doing this blog about the past. Most of the past was I went to the rocket club down in Toodyay, which I've been so many times from 2013, 2014, 2016 and This year, I'll be going back again.The club I went to was amazing, not just little rockets that people launch, also really big ones up to more than 2 meters tall from base to nosecone. The big rockets can reach altitudes up to about 4000 feet above ground because of their extremely powerful rocket motors which burn solid rocket fuel, fire going down the center tube in high speed straight down to the nozzle and burning out to generate thrust.
I've also been to the Dooms day camp during the Term 3 break last year which took 3 days and there were very impressive launches that happened along the way.
Here are some photos and videos of the past at the Perth advanced rocketry club:
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Hard Work
Greetings people, I'm back again, I'll be talking about what I'll be going through over time when I'm constructing new scratch rockets. For me, it's sometimes hard work, mostly for big ones. I've not been going through with rockets at the time of this week because of school work and worse, delaying the production of the one I called 'Adventure 1' but I'll might rename it soon.
Believe me, rocket building is not always as easy as you and I may think but trust me, it isn't but I'll get through it and soon, the Adventure 1 will be flying up into the sky and landing down safely and move my rocket building techniques to the next level.
Rockets can be dangerous when flying out of control, if there was an error with the nozzle, but when that happens, people can get hurt, seriously injured or killed if the rocket or the motor wasn't built correctly. So when building rockets, it's important to make sure the rocket is built correctly, facing up right when on the pad, people clear from the pad and watch it fly safely.
So now I'll be back soon, I'll be answering questions on comments from people in my English class, commenting on blogs from people in my English class, doing homework or working on my rocket. So bye for now, if you want any questions, please put them down on the comments below or just give me a call.
And one last thing if I don't get it right, I can still do it again, and another thing before I go "Failure is not an option".
This is a YouTube of a rocket flying out of control and is also an example of what would happen when not being careful.
Believe me, rocket building is not always as easy as you and I may think but trust me, it isn't but I'll get through it and soon, the Adventure 1 will be flying up into the sky and landing down safely and move my rocket building techniques to the next level.
Rockets can be dangerous when flying out of control, if there was an error with the nozzle, but when that happens, people can get hurt, seriously injured or killed if the rocket or the motor wasn't built correctly. So when building rockets, it's important to make sure the rocket is built correctly, facing up right when on the pad, people clear from the pad and watch it fly safely.
So now I'll be back soon, I'll be answering questions on comments from people in my English class, commenting on blogs from people in my English class, doing homework or working on my rocket. So bye for now, if you want any questions, please put them down on the comments below or just give me a call.
And one last thing if I don't get it right, I can still do it again, and another thing before I go "Failure is not an option".
This is a YouTube of a rocket flying out of control and is also an example of what would happen when not being careful.
Sunday, 19 March 2017
Work continued
Greetings people, I'm back once again, I know it might have been a while since I've made my last blog but this blog was supposed to have a video of one of the rocket launches from the past but I was unable to do so. I tried to ask my Dad for help but he was unavailable so I cancelled it and decided to make a video of me constructing the components of the rocket itself.
The some of the videos are a bit long so I've done them any way and when I edit this blog, I'll include the videos then add some information about them, but for now I'll explain what I've done. I've cut out and sanded the cardboard fins for the rocket and taped the edges so air can't rush through the gaps and could rip the fins off the rocket. What I'll then be doing is drawing a design of the motor mount of the rocket on my home computer, draw a template on a piece of paper and then draw an accurate cut out drawing on the cardboard, ready to be removed but first I need to create the tube wrapped over the motor to case it up, then create the rings for the motor mount as soon as possible then make an old metal skewer to create the component to hold the motor in.
There'll be a chance I'll spray paint the body of the rocket before I attach the fins and spray paint the name of what the rocket is going to be called. For now I'll call the rocket Adventure 1, there will be a chance I'll change the name if it doesn't work out. If I can't figure out a name for the rocket, then put some comments below to come up with some names, once I have spray painted it, then I'll might recreate the name of the rocket but for now I'm naming it Adventure 1. Just remember to put some comments below and come up with some names that can be useful.
(This space will be used for the videos that are going to be added).
The some of the videos are a bit long so I've done them any way and when I edit this blog, I'll include the videos then add some information about them, but for now I'll explain what I've done. I've cut out and sanded the cardboard fins for the rocket and taped the edges so air can't rush through the gaps and could rip the fins off the rocket. What I'll then be doing is drawing a design of the motor mount of the rocket on my home computer, draw a template on a piece of paper and then draw an accurate cut out drawing on the cardboard, ready to be removed but first I need to create the tube wrapped over the motor to case it up, then create the rings for the motor mount as soon as possible then make an old metal skewer to create the component to hold the motor in.
There'll be a chance I'll spray paint the body of the rocket before I attach the fins and spray paint the name of what the rocket is going to be called. For now I'll call the rocket Adventure 1, there will be a chance I'll change the name if it doesn't work out. If I can't figure out a name for the rocket, then put some comments below to come up with some names, once I have spray painted it, then I'll might recreate the name of the rocket but for now I'm naming it Adventure 1. Just remember to put some comments below and come up with some names that can be useful.
(This space will be used for the videos that are going to be added).
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Why am I building homemade rockets
Greetings people, I know, I'm back once again with another blog. What I'm talking about today, is the reasons why I'm building homemade rockets. I decided to build homemade or scratch model rockets not just that I wanted to, it's also because I'm doing it for my English assignment.
I know some people might ask me why is it for an English assignment but some others might not want to hear it but if you do, then here you go. I'm doing it for my English assignment because this assignment is on blogging and as I noticed that a blog can be about a hobby which I thought that doing my blogs on homemade model rockets which for me as I've asked my Teacher, it was a good decision, but my Teacher thought it was a crazy decision and saying it's too dangerous but it's the making of the motor that is too dangerous, as I told him that he then understands the hazards.
I'm now going to the other reason, some of you might have read my first blog "Daniel's scratch rockets", that reason is because I wanted to take a break from building rockets from kits and move on with the next level of building rockets which is building homemade rockets which I've already started doing and put to a stand still. I just wanted to build more rockets, not just from kits but also from scratch, more from scratch because kits are just sometimes time consuming and just for the whole thing, follow the instructions. I just want to move on with just kit rockets and move to the next level, increasing my experience of rocket building and think of getting an altitude high above the clouds.
Some of you might be carious of why I have rocketry as my hobby, because when I grow up I want to be a rocket scientist, I want to go up into space and explore the solar system. These blogs are about what I'm doing which is building homemade rockets not what I'm doing in the Future but in about less than twenty years or more, it will.
That image was placed just for showing off like what would it be like in Space.
I know some people might ask me why is it for an English assignment but some others might not want to hear it but if you do, then here you go. I'm doing it for my English assignment because this assignment is on blogging and as I noticed that a blog can be about a hobby which I thought that doing my blogs on homemade model rockets which for me as I've asked my Teacher, it was a good decision, but my Teacher thought it was a crazy decision and saying it's too dangerous but it's the making of the motor that is too dangerous, as I told him that he then understands the hazards.
I'm now going to the other reason, some of you might have read my first blog "Daniel's scratch rockets", that reason is because I wanted to take a break from building rockets from kits and move on with the next level of building rockets which is building homemade rockets which I've already started doing and put to a stand still. I just wanted to build more rockets, not just from kits but also from scratch, more from scratch because kits are just sometimes time consuming and just for the whole thing, follow the instructions. I just want to move on with just kit rockets and move to the next level, increasing my experience of rocket building and think of getting an altitude high above the clouds.
Some of you might be carious of why I have rocketry as my hobby, because when I grow up I want to be a rocket scientist, I want to go up into space and explore the solar system. These blogs are about what I'm doing which is building homemade rockets not what I'm doing in the Future but in about less than twenty years or more, it will.
That image was placed just for showing off like what would it be like in Space.
A Five day off
Greetings people, I'm back with another blog, this one is about the scheduled for my homemade rocket construction for every week. For every five days from Monday to Friday, my work of rocket building is put to a halt, because of homework, but every time on the two days of the weekend Saturday and Sunday, if I don't have any homework, I do some rocket building but as I said, from Monday to Friday, no rocket building.
The reason for me doing rocket building on the Weekend rather than on the days of school is because on the Weekend, I have more time to do it after doing as much homework as possible. If doing it on the days of school, might have a very little amount of time to do so after homework or it will just interfere with the homework that I'm doing in case I do have a lot of homework to do.
If I want to do the rocket building on school days, then I'll need to do it on days that have no homework for me to do. So as I said, rocket building on the Weekend 'Yes', rocket building on School days 'No' unless no homework on those days.
Every time I check my previous blogs, I've seen the amount of people that have looked at my blogs but no comments. I decided to add this part to my blog not just for people to have a look at, it is also for me to know if any of my blogs have been commented on yet.
(27/03/2017)
The schedule has been changed, for that, I'm not doing rocket building on every week but only on the school holidays. The reason is because of homework, homework that I need to get through and if I do some rocket building on the weekends, it will interfere with my school work, but I will get through the work I need to do but on the up coming weekend, I'll continue with my work on the rocket.
The reason for me doing rocket building on the Weekend rather than on the days of school is because on the Weekend, I have more time to do it after doing as much homework as possible. If doing it on the days of school, might have a very little amount of time to do so after homework or it will just interfere with the homework that I'm doing in case I do have a lot of homework to do.
If I want to do the rocket building on school days, then I'll need to do it on days that have no homework for me to do. So as I said, rocket building on the Weekend 'Yes', rocket building on School days 'No' unless no homework on those days.
Every time I check my previous blogs, I've seen the amount of people that have looked at my blogs but no comments. I decided to add this part to my blog not just for people to have a look at, it is also for me to know if any of my blogs have been commented on yet.
(27/03/2017)
The schedule has been changed, for that, I'm not doing rocket building on every week but only on the school holidays. The reason is because of homework, homework that I need to get through and if I do some rocket building on the weekends, it will interfere with my school work, but I will get through the work I need to do but on the up coming weekend, I'll continue with my work on the rocket.
Sunday, 12 March 2017
Work at a stand still
Greetings people, I'm back with another blog once again. This blog will be about what I'm up to now with the construction process of the homemade rocket.
For now, the construction of the first homemade model rocket is at a stand still, the reasons are school, homework like assignments, tasks, normal homework etc. Although the construction of the rocket as it was going Yesterday, is proceeding carefully without rushing that could cause a set back.
However, the part of where I'm up to now is the construction of the fins, which I've marked the lines of the edges of the fins on a bit of cardboard that have not been cut out yet. The main body of the rocket is lying on a platform of old big LEGO blocks used to prevent the rocket from rolling off and move the fins out of the correct a lineament.
Well, when the construction of the rocket continues, the fins will be cut out and I will need to get a nosecone from a model shop, not in a packet of a kit but hopefully, on its own. I will get back to the construction of the rocket after school, through out the week or during the weekend if I don't have much homework to do at the time now.
Once I've done the fins, the motor mount will follow, made with cardboard and put in with superglue but the most important is what type of motor from a shop that I'll be using. For that, I'll need to get some different size motors that might have been used or not been used from the shed and figure out what type of motor I can use.
For now, the construction of the first homemade model rocket is at a stand still, the reasons are school, homework like assignments, tasks, normal homework etc. Although the construction of the rocket as it was going Yesterday, is proceeding carefully without rushing that could cause a set back.
However, the part of where I'm up to now is the construction of the fins, which I've marked the lines of the edges of the fins on a bit of cardboard that have not been cut out yet. The main body of the rocket is lying on a platform of old big LEGO blocks used to prevent the rocket from rolling off and move the fins out of the correct a lineament.
Well, when the construction of the rocket continues, the fins will be cut out and I will need to get a nosecone from a model shop, not in a packet of a kit but hopefully, on its own. I will get back to the construction of the rocket after school, through out the week or during the weekend if I don't have much homework to do at the time now.
Once I've done the fins, the motor mount will follow, made with cardboard and put in with superglue but the most important is what type of motor from a shop that I'll be using. For that, I'll need to get some different size motors that might have been used or not been used from the shed and figure out what type of motor I can use.
Work under way
Greetings people, another blog has just been made, although, I was unable to think of making a blog Yesterday. For today, I've already got the table all clear and already got some equipment on the table.
This is the start, I've already got a cardboard cylinder that I've chosen, I've built a holding platform to prevent the fins from moving out of place with big LEGO blocks, chosen the cardboard sheet for my fins, drew a design for my fins and got a straw that I need. Fortunately for me I had help from my Mum to get the table all sorted, I've done most of the job of preparing the stuff I needed like scissors, rulers, cardboard sheet and tubing, pencils etc.
I've already made my start of building a scratch rocket of getting my fins all drawn on the cardboard and ready to be cut out. The rest of the construction will happen later. Soon I'll spray paint the rocket out the back to give it's patterns and spray painted writing. The construction process will take a while to do but as I said, I've already started with the fins but my work will continue perhaps over the week if I done have as much or a little amount of home work to do.
These photos are a part of my work and by now what's on the table is different to what's on these photos.
This is the start, I've already got a cardboard cylinder that I've chosen, I've built a holding platform to prevent the fins from moving out of place with big LEGO blocks, chosen the cardboard sheet for my fins, drew a design for my fins and got a straw that I need. Fortunately for me I had help from my Mum to get the table all sorted, I've done most of the job of preparing the stuff I needed like scissors, rulers, cardboard sheet and tubing, pencils etc.
I've already made my start of building a scratch rocket of getting my fins all drawn on the cardboard and ready to be cut out. The rest of the construction will happen later. Soon I'll spray paint the rocket out the back to give it's patterns and spray painted writing. The construction process will take a while to do but as I said, I've already started with the fins but my work will continue perhaps over the week if I done have as much or a little amount of home work to do.
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Getting started
Greetings people, I'm back with another Blog. For today, I'm getting close to the start of building scratch rockets which will be happening tomorrow or the day after. Tomorrow, I'll be clearing my round table in the family room which was once used for me doing homework, but now it's being used to be a crafting table for scratch rockets.
Some people would think that I made that choice of using that table, I didn't, it was my Mother's idea. Because although I do have a shed, the shed is quite packed up and for my desk, I'm low on space to do my work on the rockets. I have so much equipment!
I'll be getting started tomorrow perhaps in the Morning when I wake up or maybe during the afternoon. Clearing the table will take a while, but I will get it done for me to get started and I will be on my way of building scratch rockets. As I'll get started, I need some components to buy from the model shop like a nosecone and/or some fins, maybe the fins I might make at home, that's easy to do but fragile with balsa wood because when using fin sheets of balsa wood, the sheets are quite fragile so when cutting, it breaks.
If choosing to build a nosecone with balsa wood pole or dowel, it will require a wood lathe but for that I don't have one yet so I'll need to get one at a shop first. When cutting the fins out with a knife it will be very dangerous, if you don't have experience with cutting balsa wood with a knife, have someone who does to help you. This blog, no offence is about me having no experience, not someone else.
This image is what kind of nosecone I would buid if I did have a wood Lathe.
So I will get started on building scratch rockets by tomorrow or Sunday, depending on how much stuff is on the table or if I had time to do so.
Some people would think that I made that choice of using that table, I didn't, it was my Mother's idea. Because although I do have a shed, the shed is quite packed up and for my desk, I'm low on space to do my work on the rockets. I have so much equipment!
I'll be getting started tomorrow perhaps in the Morning when I wake up or maybe during the afternoon. Clearing the table will take a while, but I will get it done for me to get started and I will be on my way of building scratch rockets. As I'll get started, I need some components to buy from the model shop like a nosecone and/or some fins, maybe the fins I might make at home, that's easy to do but fragile with balsa wood because when using fin sheets of balsa wood, the sheets are quite fragile so when cutting, it breaks.
If choosing to build a nosecone with balsa wood pole or dowel, it will require a wood lathe but for that I don't have one yet so I'll need to get one at a shop first. When cutting the fins out with a knife it will be very dangerous, if you don't have experience with cutting balsa wood with a knife, have someone who does to help you. This blog, no offence is about me having no experience, not someone else.
This image is what kind of nosecone I would buid if I did have a wood Lathe.So I will get started on building scratch rockets by tomorrow or Sunday, depending on how much stuff is on the table or if I had time to do so.
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
What you need to build rockets
Greetings people, I'm back with another blog post and I'm doing this blog post on how are rockets built.
Model Rockets can be built from a kit or from scratch, but for me, I'll be building some from scratch. Model rockets can be built in different sizes like small ones that are simple to build, but big ones are more complex than small ones so I'll first be focusing on small ones.
The rockets are made with cardboard/fiber glass tubing for the actual body of the rocket, but fiber glass is for big rockets only so sticking with cardboard, plastic or balsa wood for the nosecone and/or fins. There's also a need for 1 or 2 straws because when the rocket is placed on the launch pad, the straws prevent the rocket from tipping over.
There's also a need for a silk cloth and ropes for a Parachute to prevent the rocket from smashing to the ground on impact. this way, you can use your rocket again. You also need a long strip of elastic band (like from a face-mask) to attach the nosecone to the top of the rocket to prevent separation from the rocket. Balsa wood, plastic and cardboard for the motor mount and a cardboard ring to prevent the motor from sliding into the rocket and some glue to keep all the components together.
The fins need to be in the correct alignment to fly the rocket in a straight line.
I know that some people might get bored of reading this blog but sometimes it's important information for other people. And for more info, Papier Mâché, toilet paper or other types of flexible paper can be used as wadding to protect the parachute from the ejection blast from the motor.
This is for people to know what are rockets built from, for further information sometimes learning from YouTube videos of homemade rockets can help. The Youtube poster 'tlgrimmy' makes some helpful tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yurohmsmY_Y
Model Rockets can be built from a kit or from scratch, but for me, I'll be building some from scratch. Model rockets can be built in different sizes like small ones that are simple to build, but big ones are more complex than small ones so I'll first be focusing on small ones.
The rockets are made with cardboard/fiber glass tubing for the actual body of the rocket, but fiber glass is for big rockets only so sticking with cardboard, plastic or balsa wood for the nosecone and/or fins. There's also a need for 1 or 2 straws because when the rocket is placed on the launch pad, the straws prevent the rocket from tipping over.
There's also a need for a silk cloth and ropes for a Parachute to prevent the rocket from smashing to the ground on impact. this way, you can use your rocket again. You also need a long strip of elastic band (like from a face-mask) to attach the nosecone to the top of the rocket to prevent separation from the rocket. Balsa wood, plastic and cardboard for the motor mount and a cardboard ring to prevent the motor from sliding into the rocket and some glue to keep all the components together.
The fins need to be in the correct alignment to fly the rocket in a straight line.
I know that some people might get bored of reading this blog but sometimes it's important information for other people. And for more info, Papier Mâché, toilet paper or other types of flexible paper can be used as wadding to protect the parachute from the ejection blast from the motor.
This is for people to know what are rockets built from, for further information sometimes learning from YouTube videos of homemade rockets can help. The Youtube poster 'tlgrimmy' makes some helpful tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yurohmsmY_Y
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Daniel's scratch Rockets
Greetings people, my name is Daniel Burmas, my hobby that I'm making my blog on is building scratch rockets. The reason why I'm doing this hobby and blog is to get some new experience on things with rocketry and to take a break from building kits from model shops all the time.
I have never built any scratch model rockets before but every time I build rockets is when I buy some from shops so I'm getting to the point of taking a break of building kits and moving on to a new event like the one I'm talking about. The meaning of scratch is another way of saying homemade. I will be getting to the point of starting to build some homemade rockets and then I will take my skills of rocketry to a whole new level.
Some of you people would think that I'm crazy of building homemade rockets, it's too dangerous and I could get hurt or worse, if you have asked a question like that, then believe me it is not dangerous but the only thing that is dangerous is when you're making a homemade rocket motor. Some of you might have learned why it's too dangerous making a homemade rocket motor is because of the fuel of the motor when making rocket fuel, without a Licence for this experience, it is too dangerous and against the Law. People could get hurt or could die when making homemade rocket fuel without a Licence if they're not being careful because sometimes with the fuel when being molded into the motor if the fuel is melted down to a liquid form or mixed the ingredients with water then stirring for an hour until solidifying to a mashed potato form, there can be air pockets if the fuel is not compacted properly. Use one of the scenes of October Skies for example when lots of model rockets that Homer Hickam built kept on exploding because at the end of that event, the four rocket boys figured out that air pockets in the fuel was the cause of every explosion.
So back to the event, if other people are reading this blog then sometimes when I've added photos and/or a video of how to make some, then some people might be interested on giving it a go. Making scratch rockets will be a hard experience in the beginning for me sometimes to whoever's reading this blog but when time goes by after practice, I'll get some better experience.
Sometimes it's also okay to customize my scratch rockets to see how they perform while in flight and sometimes you can use scratch rocket parts to customize kit versions, sometimes for repairs or modifications.
I've been building and launching model rockets for years now and haven't thought about stopping and I'm not ever going to want to stop. I've build my first kits back in 2011 or 2012.
I have never built any scratch model rockets before but every time I build rockets is when I buy some from shops so I'm getting to the point of taking a break of building kits and moving on to a new event like the one I'm talking about. The meaning of scratch is another way of saying homemade. I will be getting to the point of starting to build some homemade rockets and then I will take my skills of rocketry to a whole new level.
Some of you people would think that I'm crazy of building homemade rockets, it's too dangerous and I could get hurt or worse, if you have asked a question like that, then believe me it is not dangerous but the only thing that is dangerous is when you're making a homemade rocket motor. Some of you might have learned why it's too dangerous making a homemade rocket motor is because of the fuel of the motor when making rocket fuel, without a Licence for this experience, it is too dangerous and against the Law. People could get hurt or could die when making homemade rocket fuel without a Licence if they're not being careful because sometimes with the fuel when being molded into the motor if the fuel is melted down to a liquid form or mixed the ingredients with water then stirring for an hour until solidifying to a mashed potato form, there can be air pockets if the fuel is not compacted properly. Use one of the scenes of October Skies for example when lots of model rockets that Homer Hickam built kept on exploding because at the end of that event, the four rocket boys figured out that air pockets in the fuel was the cause of every explosion.
So back to the event, if other people are reading this blog then sometimes when I've added photos and/or a video of how to make some, then some people might be interested on giving it a go. Making scratch rockets will be a hard experience in the beginning for me sometimes to whoever's reading this blog but when time goes by after practice, I'll get some better experience.
Sometimes it's also okay to customize my scratch rockets to see how they perform while in flight and sometimes you can use scratch rocket parts to customize kit versions, sometimes for repairs or modifications.
I've been building and launching model rockets for years now and haven't thought about stopping and I'm not ever going to want to stop. I've build my first kits back in 2011 or 2012.
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