Blighty's rocketeers gather for ballistic love-in Those of you with a penchant for things that go really fast with flames coming out of the back are directed to this weekend's Festival of Rocketry 2011 – Europe's "largest model and amateur rocketry event", which blasts off on Friday at Oxhill in Warwickshire. Rocket launch. Pic: Festival of Rocketry 2011 The three-day …
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Perhaps they should warn attendees of the possible consequences of being contaminated with nanogram quantities of RDX at such events?
It would be nice to see a follow-up article on JFL's current situation after such shoddy treatment by our "establishment".
Seems unlikely that model motors would intentionally contain RDX, but it occurs to me that Estes probably get their propellants from a pyrotechnics manufacturer, and there might be minute amounts of cross-contamination for other production lines in the same factory.
I wonder if Plod followed-up that possibility. OK, silly question really. Detector reads positive. We have an arrest.
As Deputy President of the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs and someone who has designed electronics for past (and future) space missions, I feel uniquely able to comment on this.
Although half of the countryside seems to be held together with baler twine, I have yet to see it in an assembly clean room, or on any launch site. Therefore I shall try to be there at the weekend to witness the launch of some of these rockets, and hopefully get a few pictures with baler twine in use. I might even join one of the classes and make sure I use plenty of twine ;-)
It’s great to see a fun and educational hobby thriving so well – it’s just a shame that our government stopped our space program when Blue Streak was proving so successful and reliable.
We live in a society that won't let kiddies play conkers or climb a tree. Yet here we are encouraged to do a corporate softball event every year here in the office. Dunno why they call it softball because it's big white and rock solid...fnar fnar!
Let's face it though I'm really rubbish at softball, but if I manage to get a good hit then I really do pack some beef into it.
Last year while attempting to bat, I missed the back of a colleagues head by three inches -I have no aiming skills whatsoever -nor it would seem do any of my colleagues. Other people were just as lucky, also just missing people in the park by mere inches. Amazingly there were no injuries (just a matter of time though) but it's fantastically dangerous.
We can do all that and the 'elf n safety' brigade say nothing. Chase a rolling cheese down a hill (much safer in my view) and their all over you.
Weird.
Full thrust to the rocketeers though I think thats great.
Always reminds me of The Goodies episode & THO recently suggested using it (with fairly massive ground pegs) to secure the kids trampoline down so high prairie winds won't blow it away
As string& a nail banged into something inappropriate is her response to any problem requiring support , my retort that string was a wonderfully strong material frequently used in the construction of bridges, did not amuse her. It did amuse a woman passing us by at the time, who was trying desperately (& almost suceeded) not to laugh at that.
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