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    Bare Necessities: N5800 competition entry (2012-09-04)
    "This is the "Mudd Team"'s entry into the N5800CS competition. We are flying ours at XPRS (pending no tragedies in the remaining construction process). It was designed to be such that we could ... [Read More]

    N2000 min. dia. onboard to 27,000 feet (2009-11-19)
    "Onboard video from my X-98 rocket: 4" dia., 8' tall, Carbon fiber airframe, custom 5:1 VonKarman fiberglass nosecone. 15 lbs dry weight 40 lbs. liftoff weight N2000W motor 388 lbs. avg. thrust 6 ... [Read More]

    Crayon Pack - 8 Crayon rockets (2010-02-16)
    "Since a friend pointed out that my I-ROC looked like a Crayon®, I've had the idea in back of my mind to build a Crayon rocket. Not just a Crayon rocket, but a pack of Crayon rockets! The smallest ... [Read More]

    Extreme Performance Rockets (from 2007) (2012-02-13)
    These are oldies but goodies, and a few of them are newies to me. Including these two: This rocket looks like a giant egg lofter (perhaps for ostrich eggs?) but is actually a 6 inch can-sat launcher ... [Read More]

    The incredible rockets of XPRS (2012-04-07)
    Barely through level 1 rocketry, and slowly working towards level 2, it is still fun to dream about what could be, some day. These XPRS blogspot pages show many large hpr rockets, some of which are ... [Read More]