Hello from Michigan

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chemdude
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Hello from Michigan

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Hi,
I am an 11 year old kid that absolutely loves water rockets. I got my inspiration from aircommandrockets.com. I was amazed at the colossal rockets he made out of soda bottles. I have a compressor that goes up to 150 psi although I've only gotten it up to 145 psi. I built the launcher with my dad in 2009.
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chemdude wrote:Hi,
I am an 11 year old kid that absolutely loves water rockets. I got my inspiration from aircommandrockets.com. I was amazed at the colossal rockets he made out of soda bottles. I have a compressor that goes up to 150 psi although I've only gotten it up to 145 psi. I built the launcher with my dad in 2009.
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Re: Hello from Michigan

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chemdude wrote:Hi,
I am an 11 year old kid that absolutely loves water rockets. I got my inspiration from aircommandrockets.com. I was amazed at the colossal rockets he made out of soda bottles. I have a compressor that goes up to 150 psi although I've only gotten it up to 145 psi. I built the launcher with my dad in 2009.
Nice to meet you!

Have you started building your own colossal rocket? Unless you are going to build a composite reinforced rocket, you probably don't need much more than 130-140PSI. Try flying some rockets like that and perfect your techniques and if you are stillmaking progress and enjoying yourself in a year from now and want to go farther or higher you can investigate reinforced rockets and higher pressures!

Welcome!
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chemdude
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Re: Hello from Michigan

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I am Currently working on a new rocket I call Solstice I. It is a 4L rocket made of 4 1L. It will have a NOAA parachute deployment.
http://www.wra2.org/forum/posting.php?m ... =28&t=1404#
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Re: Hello from Michigan

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hi
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Re: Hello from Michigan

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Apurv wrote:hi
Hi Everyone...

Is it feasible to build a water rocket system, whose thrust out put could be controlled in real time and make the rocket literally stop and hover in mid air...