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.
Saturday, 20 May 2017
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.
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