The Fox Valley Rocketeers have collected a variety of model rocketry and high power rocketry articles and presentations that you may find useful:
- Saturn Rocket History: Mark Bundick did a presentation at our November 2008 meeting on the famous moon rocket. This article contains links to various Saturn related sites.
- Goonybird Rockets: Ed Chess gave a presentation at the 2009 NIRCON on these funny little rockets.
- Design Vs. Reality: Jeff Hallett presented his learnings from his Level 2 flight (PowerPoint)
- Finishing Tips: Ed Chess told us all his finishing secrets to make great looking rockets!
- Kitbashing: From Mark Bundick’s NARCON 2007 presentation:
- Club Logo and Wallpaper (ZIP file): Club logo in GIF format and two wallpapers.
- Open Rocket Simulation Software: Kerry Quinn did a talk on OpenRocket at NARCON. He was kind enough to send me a copy of his presentation. He also presented a software tool he created that will produce graphics files of templates for fins, transition sections and alignment guides out of OpenRocket. There are 3 files you need here and an example of the results.
- ORutils.txt An introduction and directions to use Kerry’s code.
- orutil.py source code
- ORutils_32_h.zip 32-bit windows application
- allin.htm sample output
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