Model rocketry has always fascinated me. How difficult are they to build?
How detailed are they? What fuel is used? This could be a thread loaded
with questions for experienced rocketeers, and I don't know how blind
friendly the model rocketry would be, but I like the subject, so there ya
go.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 4:56 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Model Aircraft and Radio Controlled Vehicles
Hi Jim,
Interesting. When I was younger, before I lost my sight, I use to help
my dad build gas powered model airplanes that we took out and flew on
the weekends. the nice thing about where we lived is there was a
little airport made especially for model airplanes not far from our
house and I spent hours of fun flying model aircraft over the summer
break. Its one of the things I truly miss as an adult as my dad and I
don't really have that kind of time to share any more.
Another type of model aircraft I was into is model rockets. We would
pick one up at the store build it, put a little gas powered engine in
the bottom, and then take it down to the model airport and launch them
off. One of the coolest model rockets I owned was called the Camrock.
The Camrock had a small 110 camra mounted in the nose cone, and if you
put a roll of 110 film in it you could do airial photography using the
rocket.The way it worked is you launched the rocket, it went up to say
500 feet I think, and then came back down. As it rolled over the
parachute would deploy triggering the camra and it would take a
snapshot of the ground below. Somewhere around here I have a framed
photograph of my old neighborhood I took with the camrock when I was 9
or 10 years old.
However, now days like you I mainly spend my time with radio
controlled vehicles. My son and I sometimes take them down to the
local park and race them when the weather is nice. I've got a Dodge
Ram pickup, a Hummer, a couple of dune buggies, and a large 1/6 scale
four wheeler. I've even got a radio controlled boat my son and I take
turns playing with in my in-laws pond. I think the next thing I want
to buy is a radio controlled submarine.
Cheers!
On 12/23/11, Jim Kitchen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Yes, Puppy 1 is a game and not a flight simulation program. The only
thing
that is real about it is that all of the planes and each bullet do have
an
x, y and z coordinate that are up dated about 20 times per second.
If I could write a real flight simulation program I would want to use
real
longitude, latitude and altitude coordinates. You know like maybe start
out
at the correct longitude, latitude and altitude coordinates of the
Cleveland
Hopkins International airport. Then be able to fly to and land at Burk
Lakefront airport. And then maybe fly to the Cuyahauga airport. And
then
back to the Cleveland Hopkins International airport. But to fly say from
the Cleveland Hopkins International airport to say L.A.X. would just be
boring. One would just take off, gain altitude, set a heading and let
the
plane fly for hours and hours, until you got near L.A.X. I did really
enjoy
the Microsoft flight simulation program when I still had a tiny bit of
sight. It even allowed me to set longitude, latitude and altitude
coordinates. And soon I was flying around the Brooklyn bridge, the
Statue
of Liberty and even the Twin Towers.
BTW My Dad's life long hobby was building and flying remote control gas
powered model airplanes. Most were built from kits that you buy, but he
did
at one point start designing and building his own planes. The first was
a
biplane and was named Puppy 1. Puppy 2 was also a biplane, but puppy 3
was
not. I myself have always been more into gas or electric powered remote
control cars, trucks and all terrain vehicles. I have ten of them.
BFN
Jim
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
[email protected]
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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