Articles by The Rocket N00b

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Here’s an episode we recorded a while back, and since it’s been a hot topic recently due to virtual NARCON, we’re dropping it now. We chat with Mike Nowak and James Duffy – two skilled […]

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In this episode, Model Rocket Guy Jesse U of The Rocketry Show sits in for the N00b. Jesse talks with Frank Burke, maker of a number of amazing, large, radio controlled rocket gliders. Frank uses […]

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Our guest this week is our esteemed sponsor – Randy Boadway, owner of eRockets.biz and producer of Semroc kits and parts. We have a great conversation, lots of fun, and Randy even tells me what […]

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2020 was a tough year. Rocketry really helped some of us get through it. I took a recorder along to almost every launch I went to, and the result is this 2-part series, Field Notes […]

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After a hiatus (you know, it’s 2020…), we’re back with The Model Rocket Show! This episode is a classic “workshop” episode fans of The Rocketry Show have come to enjoy – and the N00b is […]

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In this episode, we chat with James Duffy, an accomplished scale modeler and competitor in FAI international model rocketry competitions. James’ main specialties in scale modeling are the Bumper WAC – an early American two-stage […]

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In this episode, we talk with Gary Rosenfield, who founded AeroTech Consumer Aerospace in 1982. AeroTech makes ammonium perchlorate composite propellant motors, often referred to as simply “composite motors.” This distinguishes them from the traditional […]