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F22 Simpilot said:

You wouldn't happen to live in Gaza?

F22 Simpilot said:

I have to this day a model rocket with a small 110 camera. When the cone popped off via the engine it took a picture with a reverse mirror on the side of the nose cone. I put it altogether and never once flew it. Flash forward a couple decades latter and now I have a Chinese spy drone... Curiosity of the DJI company.

LOL @ living in Gaza.


And they still sell those camera and video rockets...
Search Results -> camera rocket : Apogee Rockets, Model Rocketry Excitement Starts Here

Well, my rocket arrived today...
SA-14 Archer™








The rocket, when assembled will be 47" tall...

Make a video when you fire it.

How high is it supposed to go?

Caledon Ken said:

Make a video when you fire it.

How high is it supposed to go?

Pictures... yes, videos... no.
Depends on the engine I use.

The rocket comes down by parachute (36" diameter).
I'm almost 67. My days of chasing model rockets are long gone.





So I'm gonna use an ESTES F15-4
Which will go 473 feet.






Deployment = when the chute pops out.
Launch Guide = speed at start (still on 5 ft. launch rod).


So far today, I've sanded the fins and the strakes. Built the top half of the rocket.
Built the motor mount. (the strakes are the long thin fins going up the sides of the rocket).





I'm not gonna use the red decals at all, and I'm gonna paint it satin gray.





Besides all the sanding... I built these two sections.
The motor mount is 9" tall and the top portion of the rocket is 25" tall.
The whole rocket will be 47" tall.

The motor mount took forever, cause it's all epoxy.
If you use regular wood glue, the engine, when ignited, would shoot up through the rocket interior, which would NOT be good. It may even prompt people to say: "That's gonna leave a mark".





If you want to check out the building instructions...

https://www.apogeerockets.com/downlo...cher_Instr.pdf

Well good luck.

Have to set phone camera to burst mode. No telling what you will see.

Caledon Ken said:

Well good luck.

Have to set phone camera to burst mode. No telling what you will see.

Well, this morning I sanded a LOT, then glued the strakes on and glued the motor mount into the bottom section of the rocket. The big bottom fins are just sitting in there (not glued), and they "locate" the motor mount height in the main body tube.







Here it is kind of assembled. Fins still need attached, and the top section will slide down into the bottom section, completely... when finished. I have to leave the top section off until the epoxy sets on the top of the motor mount in the lower tube.





Oooh... I used MS Paint and had it... "remove the background".

Looking good.


I wonder if you could affix a small camera to it to give the full SpaceX experience.

Caledon Ken said:

Looking good.


I wonder if you could affix a small camera to it to give the full SpaceX experience.

Oh yeah... easily. They also have little circuit board altimeters you can attach as well.
Here's some of the modern thingies... for rockets.

Electronics & Payloads


If you go here and click on "Shop", you'll get a neat little navigation pane on the left...

Apogee Model Rockets & How-To Rocketry Information









Here's a dropbox link to the ESTES "Model Rocketry Technical manual".
It covers the basics of model rocket building and flying...

Dropbox - Model Rocket Technical Manual.zip - Simplify your life