son in law's rocket

[19Walt93]

As a kid I built Estes model rockets that were maybe 18" tall. My son in law builds model rockets, too. This one is a model of a soviet era 3 warhead rocket, he built it from sctratch and it's a little taller than mine were. There's a launch video attached.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UBM3Gs7lIio?feature=shared

 

[ericbphoto]

Very nice model. Shame it veered off sideways. That makes for a long walk to recover it. I did high powered rocketry for about 10 years or so, even made my own propellent. There are a few others here that do/did rocketry.

 

[Bear in the woods]

Very nice model. Shame it veered off sideways. That makes for a long walk to recover it. I did high powered rocketry for about 10 years or so, even made my own propellent. There are a few others here that do/did rocketry.

It saw a Chevy and couldn’t resist the urge is why it veered off

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It saw a Chevy and couldn’t resist the urge is why it veered off

Looked more like death wobble...

 

[Roert42]

im sure the neighbor love it

 

[19Walt93]

They live in Falls Church, Va, very near Washington,DC and his club has to notify the FAA when they launch. Otherwise a missle showing up on radar might cause a response from the Air Force. It's altitude was deliberately restricted and it separated into 5 pieces that individually parachuted down. My daughter is used to packages marked "explosives" being delivered to their house.

 

[ericbphoto]

They live in Falls Church, Va, very near Washington,DC and his club has to notify the FAA when they launch. Otherwise a missle showing up on radar might cause a response from the Air Force. It's altitude was deliberately restricted and it separated into 5 pieces that individually parachuted down. My daughter is used to packages marked "explosives" being delivered to their house.

That is common for the rocketry hobby anywhere, not just near DC or other big cities. You file paperwork with the FAA for a "waiver". Basically, it is permission to use the airspace and it let's them know what you're doing. On the day of the launch, they issue a "notam", or notice to airmen, that let's pilots know what's going on and where. They can still fly through your airspace but are encouraged not to. When a plane enters the wavered area, rocket flights must cease until the air is clear again. If I recall, our standing waiver was for ground level up to 10,000 ft for a circle with a 3 mile radius. We flew from a sod farm next to I-26 near Orangeburg, SC. I spent years as secretary and even club president and had the duty of renewing the paperwork every year and calling the FAA each day to open and close the waiver for that day's operations. Our club used to do a big launch once a year that we even got people from other countries to attend. One year when I was president, we had to make the unpopular decision to cancel that event due to a hurricane.