One of the most important components of a model rocket is the parachute. It is also quite easy to make and we have created a video to show you how you can make your own model rocket parachute. Parachute or ‘Parasheet’ What most people do not know is that by making a parachute out of [Continue]
A good source of information for rocketry and space travel is the NASA website. NASA, the people that brought you the Space Shuttle, Moon Landings, Interplanetary Travel and a host of technologies too vast to mention keeps a website full of educational materials. One of those is RocketModeler which we have taken the opportunity to [Continue]
If you have been launching rockets for a while one thing you have noticed are the standards in diameter sizes. Estes and other model rocket manufacturers use a code to describe the various diameters. BT-5, BT-20, BT-50, BT-55, BT-56, and so on are the codes used. Below is a table of the BT codes and [Continue]