Thank you very much for the video. I started with OpenRocket 2 months ago. It's a pretty good rocket design tool. Your Astra Javelin is beautiful 🙂

The haz mat on low power was supposed to go away. A - G

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Sounds like its going to be a great video buddy cant wait

Good content. Keep it up man!

Great channel...i am gonna be active here. I just love rockets ❤ thanks.

Last time I tried to order from Estes they would not sell to Canada.

Most of my stuff comes from Hobby Wholesale in Edmonton.

Hello which launch controller are u using thanks for answering

5:05 never cook again 🔥🔥

What if you don’t have a loop on the nose cone

So I'm gonna try, with this many rocket scientists in one place....my first rocket as a kid, mid-late 70's, an black, all plastic, Estes rocket. Flew it alot til I broke a fin. 😢 Anyone remember that one, and what it was called?? 🙏

What motor did you use and how much nose weight

Thanks for including links in the description. Lots of companies I didn't know about and I'm going to bookmark and look over later.

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Very cool, thanks for sharing and for the coupon code

I feel your pain! I feel the same way when I watch his videos. They are awesome though. I feel smarter just watching.

I think we still don't have a print version of the 2024 catalog, yet. I'm not quite sure how that happened?? Love that sticker - going on the range box? Going to Amesbury on Sunday? You can strut in your new tee!!!!

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Thats a great haul i wish i could use the afcailaite link bud sadly estes dont ship outside the US hopefully one day they will as i know for a fact they would do an amazing trade !! Mr langford if your reading this .. lots if business this side of the pond 😉

A dusting of baby powder on parachutes helps with any binding issues. Also adds a “poof” when it opens.

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Use a pliers and bend the tab over on the clasp. Also, not for larger rockets.

Very interesting! I've always wondered why some chutes have that

I have been playing with model rockets since I was 12 years old, in 1972. I got everything from Estes back then. It didn't take long before I got bored with building kits. So I started designing and building my own rockets. I also build my own launch pads and controllers, out of steel. My current launch pad is an older steel office chair base with the casters removed, a steel drill chuck to hold the launch rod (holds up to a 1/4" rod) and a steel turntable from an old phonograph as a blast deflector. It is heavy, solid, and well built. I had everything powder coated to make it look good. It does not come apart, except for the rod, but is small enough that it doesn't need to. It has 4 steel "legs" with a vertical tube at the end of each one, where the casters used to go. For a heavy rocket, I can put 8" spikes through those tubes and drive them into the ground to hold it securely in place. For a controller, I used an old steel cased computer network controller. I use a 50' orange outdoor extension cord from the controller to the pad. Despite being built out of various bits and pieces of a lot of different things, it looks much better and is much stronger than anything I have seen available commercially. I got into mid power rocketry for a while, but it just got too expensive. I recently retired, and went back to low power, D engines or smaller. I design and build my own rockets. I still do it the old fashioned way, with no computers. My goal is to get as much altitude as possible using engines no larger than a D. I've mostly used clustered and multistaged rockets. I've passed 3200 feet with nothing larger than a D engine. I have an agreement with a local farmer in central AZ to use his property as a launch site, as long as I don't let anybody else know about it. I used to be a member of the Superstition Spacemodeling Society, but they lost their launch site many years ago, and are now using a place over 100 miles away from where I live, which is just too far for me to go. I always launch my rockets out in the middle of nowhere the first time, just in case something goes wrong. I have never launched an unproven design with anyone else around. I make my own parachutes out of nylon. I sprinkle baby powder on them before packing them. I learned that when still using plastic chutes that tended to stick together after being folded. If you coat plastic parachutes with baby powder, they will still work after being stored for a while. I do use a snap swivel to attach the parachute lines to the nose cone, so if the rocket spins coming down, it won't twist up the lines. I also tend to use a single stage/upper stage engine with a slightly longer delay, to allow the rocket to fall a little more before the chute is ejected, and I do use a hole in the center of the chutes. I've had a few rockets float away and get lost. At 3000+ feet, the air current can carry a rocket for miles. I paint all my rockets gloss white and fluorescent orange to make them easier to see.

Rocket Noob, great video! What is a better chute PINK or YELLOW!!!!

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Great video Dan! I’m not quite sure why the snap swivel hasn’t become the industry standard yet…….. I don’t know anyone that actually attaches permanently to the NC anymore. Very well produced tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

Nicely done. I also like to attach my parachutes with the colored side down. It makes the chute a little more visible when it comes out. But not a big deal at all.

This was very informative, thank you.

Hey Buddy great video informative and very well produced learnt somethibg new about folding too love that sprint !!!

This is great, Dan! Parachutes are one of the hardest, most underestimated parts of this stuff, as you know :)

Nice camera work and editing!

Excellent video.

Nicely done!

nice sharing stay tuned