Richard Holmes's PageLocation: Syracuse, NY Certification Level: L1 NAR Club Memberships: NAR,Syracuse Rocket Club Personal Home Page: https://richsrockets.wordpress.com Club Home Page: http://syracuserocketclub.org/ Google+ Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RichardHolmesSyr RocketReviews.com Pages:
2023-08-26Too Square Flight - C6-5 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
Flat Boy Flight - B6-0 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
Scion Flight - Aerotech G72DM single use - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
2020-10-24Pumpnik Flight The usual annual flying pumpkin experience, except that this time it bounced on landing and ended up upright standing on the four dowels!
- C6-3 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
2020-09-19Nike-G Flight C6-5 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
Fat Boy Flight Good flight, popped right after apogee - E22-4 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
Honest Goon Flight C6-5 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
2019-11-10Building the Estes Luna Bug Blog Here’s a tiny rocket that I took an unconscionably long time to build. So I’ll say it up front: I am not a fan of Hobby Lobby. I am a fan of religious freedom, but I am also aware that no rights are absolute. There always are limits. And when the religious views of a… [More]
2019-10-05Pumpnik Flight And of course, since it’s October, I flew the Pumpnik on a C6-4 and it did its thing well.
- C6-5 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
Yankee Flight I flew the Yankee twice, for the B Streamer Duration contest. B6-4 both times, and the first time I used the new streamer I made last month, pleated Mylar about 6 by 120 cm. I got 50 seconds, not as good as some of my flights earlier in the year (with a similar but shorter streamer) but comparable ... [More]
Yankee Flight For the second flight I cut about 30 cm off the length, and got about 43 seconds. - B6-4 - Syracuse Rocket Club (Weigand's Field) [More]
Syracuse Rocket Club launch: Restabilized Blog I don’t seem to be under a curse any more. This morning it was chilly. There were reports of frost to the north, the first since last spring. Not that cold where we were but mid 30s °F. But the sky was clear and the wind was light, and by late morning it’d warmed up… [More]
2019-09-21Syracuse Rocket Club launch: Bidiscontented Blog Did I offend some god of rockets or what? It wasn’t a god of weather. We had clear skies, almost no wind, temperature peaking about 80°F. I’ll take it. I started off with Bohica’s Dead Ringer, on a B6-4. Have I flown this rocket before? Yes. On B6? Yes. How many times? Six. Was it… [More]
2019-09-10Hey you Blog Sign this petition. [My comment: “Model rocketry is a fun, safe, and educational hobby. Launches conducted according to the National Association of Rocketry’s safety code and the National Fire Protection Association’s model fire code have a 60 year track record of greater safety than many activities such as sports. Kids doing model rocketry learn about… [More]
2019-08-25Syracuse Rocket Club launch: Discontented Blog There are great launches and less than great launches, and yesterday’s was not in the great category. Not terrible, but not great. Let’s start with this, which you can take as a tip for the next launch you go to: It helps if you bring your rocket motors. Failing that, it helps if you, like… [More]
Canopy fix Blog I have a Coleman 10′ x 10′ canopy, model number 2000012704, a few years old. At July’s launch my son was taking it down when one of the lower peak truss bars bent at the hinge and broke. After some googling I found there’s a vendor on Amazon, Coleman Replacement Parts, that sells, well, what… [More]
2019-07-25Building the [scratch] Roll Model (part 2) Blog As for the top plate: Glue it on, or no? If glued, that would have to be after installing the LED rings, which would have to be after painting. And then there would be no way to change out a ring whose batteries have run down. (The rings aren’t built for battery changes. You’d have… [More]
2019-07-24Building the [scratch] Roll Model (part 1) Blog Our club does a night launch every year in August (except we skipped last year), and there’s night launches at NYPower which I’ve gotten to, uh, once I think, and yet I’ve only ever flown two different rockets at them: my Loadstar II with LEDs in the clear payload section, and my Big Blinka. Nothing… [More]
2019-07-20Syracuse Rocket Club launch: Indexed Blog When I left the club launch today at about 1:30, it was about 89°F, heat index about 101°F, both still rising. I was hearing thunder. If it’d been up to me the launch would’ve been postponed, but it wasn’t, and if it weren’t the Apollo 11 anniversary and if I hadn’t committed to being there… [More]
2019-07-18Building the Delta 7 Mercury-Redstone 8 (part 3) Blog The Liberty Bell 7 capsule went together mostly per the model instructions, but of course I left off the heat shield and retro rockets. Instead I made a shoulder out of a strip of cardstock. If you’ve ever wondered what a Mercury capsule with a service module would have looked like, wonder no more. I… [More]
2016-08-21Rockets Gone Bad Photograph 
Excel launch — cato
2014-07-10Rockets By Style / Gliders Photograph 
Swift Boost Glider
2013-08-29Rocketarium Retro Rebel (Kit)  Review
I bought the Retro Rebel kit for our club's annual Odd-Rocs theme launch. It's certainly odd.
There is a 24 mm body tube with an 18 mm motor mount. Instead of a nose cone fitting into the body tube there's another short length of 24 mm tube with a coupler. Each 24 mm tube is surrounded by ... [More]
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