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)...

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

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.

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.