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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 RocketsEd 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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