Well, I have always been in the water rocket business or at least for a very long time! The first memory of water rockets was me, my dad and my Grandpa making a rocket out of a fairy liquid bottle in the garden which just spiraled which was just a bit of fun. Then that christmas we got a Maplins water rocket set including a launcher (which happened to be a Gardena) and 4 coloured rockets. Well those were good for a few years but then I discovered that lemonade bottles had the same end and could screw onto the gardena launcher. I then went through a stage of making rockets that looked realistic yet only used a single bottle at the bottom- yet being very tall meant that the small maplins launcher was beginning to strain. On the day of the royal wedding I made the Saturn 5 that (in my mind) was very tall and indeed due to the fact that it didn't spiral when rather high for a single stage, single bottle rocket.
And then I went into the stage I am in now. We purchased a kite camera to go on the side of the rocket- and scraped the Saturn 5 to make way for a parachute rocket using the 3 litre saturn 5 bottles. Early attempts went badly- but after watching a tutorial of the Air Command Water Rockets website that I would highly recommend. We made a Parachute release that worked- yet deployed late because the 'test' rocket we made out of the 3 litre bottles didn't go high enough. So now we have made our first spliced pair. They work- they go up to 105 psi and soon we will connect multiple splices to make the Britannia Super rocket. A 12 litre, fully fined, parachute release marvel.
We thats the plan! Thanks anyway and I hope i fit in well. I am also making a website at the moment, BUT IT IS NOT FINISHED SO MAY NOT BE VERY GOOD!
