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.

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

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.

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