Eleven is the
first number which cannot be represented by a human using his or her ten fingers, it is often considered a mysterious
number.
Eleven is the smallest positive integer
requiring three syllables in English.
Eleven is smallest two-digit prime number.
Eleven reads the same whether the calculator
is turned upside down or reflected on a mirror, or both.
Eleven is only one hour before
12:00—midnight—the eleventh hour means the last possible moment to take care of something, and often implies
a situation of urgent danger or emergency.
Eleven is the Apollo mission that put man on
the moon.
And finally, Eleven is the number of years
that EMRR has been providing a fun, interactive, and resource-rich rocketry website.
So, now it is your turn to "Elevate
Eleven". Come up with something that promotes Eleven. Buy Eleven of the same rocket and launch them all
at once. Make a rocket that looks like an Eleven. Take 11 kids out for a day of flying. We don't care, but be
impressive and "Elevate Eleven".
You have until the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 putting man on the moon:
07/20/09.
Entry must include at least (1) picture to prove that you did something with
Eleven. (May be GIF, JPEG, of BMP - or - if you don't have an electronic photo,
e-mail for a mailing address and we will scan the pictures for you)
Entry must include some form of a write-up telling us how and why you chose to
"Elevate Eleven" in the way that you did.
Contestants must be on EMRR's eList to be
eligible
Only one entry per Contestant (you may substitute entry with another any time
prior to the end of the contest... give us your best!)
Entries must be received by 07/20/2009.
EMRR will choose the winner from all the entries, so work hard to be impressive,
unique, funny, or creative.
Submit your entries here:
PRIZE TABLE*:
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In this book, for the first time ever, the detailed story of the
history of each Saturn V stage is presented. This includes the 45 flight stages built and all of the various test
stages. Most of the stages ended up being launched. Some are in museums, some were destroyed on the ground and some are
so obscure they are detailed for the first time in this book.
World Space Museum incredibly detailed and accurate replica. Comes
complete with a Pocket Apollo 11 Space Guide
"When I made this blog post, I didn't intend for it to be my entry in the
EMRR 11 contest. I merely wanted to promote the contest and hopefully motivate others to actually build an
11-themed rocket."
I flew a Madcow Little John Rocket on a E16-4W and had the nosecone fail to
separate. Looking back on the video it appeared to be an eleven-second flight from first motion to impact. I remembered
one suggestion for the "Elevate-Eleven" contest was to demonstrate an 11 second flight - not what you had in
mind, I'm sure, but it may prove amusing to some viewers...
Post-flight, I found the ejection charge had fired, and I even found the
red ejection cap inside the rocket body. I'm not sure what caused the nose-cone to hang-up. Post-flight, there was far
too much damage to be able to tell.
My idea to Elevate 11 has been to create a rocket with 11 tube fins. This came about after much deliberation
of what to do or create. I finally decided to make a tube-finned rocket with 11 fins. I determined that I wished to use
BT-5 tubing for the fins, so, thus, I went to EMRR's resource library to utilize my friend Rick's tube-fin calculator
to determine the size airframe to hold my 11 fins. After creating the design in RockSim, I went to my parts box and
searched for the tubes, a nosecone, etc coming up with a BT-55 size airframe for the 11 BT-5 tube fins. RockSim
indicates this configuration will be stable. It flew on a C6-5.
How many Elevens could I possibly incorporate into a model
rocket?
I didn’t start with a pencil, paper and ruler to design this
project. Initially, I came up with a few obvious “11" ideas. But, I let things stew for a while and kept
track of (maybe too many) workable “11" themes.
There are 33 - “Elevate 11 Features”:
Rocket built using an specially designed 11" long Ruler, all
inches divisible by 11
Every rocket component (except for screw eye) Incorporates the
number 11, in measurement or markings.
All rocket construction dimensions divisible by 11.
11 sided parachute,
11 inches in diameter,
11 shroud lines,
Each shroud line is 11 inches long.
Tape “disks” were cut from white adhesive backed paper.
All pieces were cut to 1.1" x 4/11" long.
Add 11 streamers down shock cord,
Each Streamer is 1" x 11" long.
Each streamer is attached to the shock cord by an masking tape tab
that is 1 1/11" square.
The main body is made up of two Series 11 tubes,
Both tubes are 11 inches long.
The tube coupler is 1 3/11" long
Two launch lugs, both 1.1" long.
11 fins,
All 11 fins are different sizes
Fins made from 11 ply cardstock and paper overlays,
All fins are numbered “countdown” style with decals, 11
to 1 going towards engine end. Fins glued in a spiral pattern,
11 Different Fonts, one font style on each fin.
Engine mount Centering “Ring” is 11/11" long
Engine Block is 2/11" wide,
Engine sticks out back of model by 3/11".
11 inches of Kevlar tied to,
44 inches of shock cord (four pieces of 11 inch elastic tied
together.
Rocket trim color is light green. On a standard Color Wheel, the
color at the 11 O’Clock position is light green.
Decal stripes beneath Nose Cone joint is actually an eleven
applied on it’s side.
Another 11 is included in the EMRR Elevate 11 decal.
Launch with C11-5 Estes engine.
Launched on May 2, 2009 at 11:11:11 a.m.
Count down from eleven,
Launch button pressed by an eleven year old girl named Emily.
(R.O.C.K. section family member)
All rocket features - 33 in all - are divisible by 11!
I thought long and hard about how to Elevate eleven, Nick mentioned
doing a payload on the contest page, Then one day while building a new rocket I thought why not use the AR-2050 there
light enough a wouldn't hurt any one, I had some paper streamer material. I Cut Eleven 11" strips of streamer and
fasten them to a Eleven AR-2050 rings loaded them into a Maxi Alpha and launched it on a Estes C11-3 engine. Nice
flight all the payload ejected and came down nicely.
Entry #8: Matt Gillard
I thought I would elevate eleven by embracing one of the most important themes of EMRR paying it forward.
As the site is a wealth of information for any new rocketeer, and with the last few years concentrating on getting young people involved in rocketry and into the EMRR family, I decided to give eleven rocketry items that would be useful to someone starting out in the hobby, to one youngster. So in my school at the moment, there is an open competition to everyone and anyone. To win the goodies they have to give the best answer to the following question in less than 50 words.
The best thing about EMRRs website in its eleventh year is ..
Use the FEEDBACK button on the top line for your submission.
The eleven goodies are enough to get anyone started into rocketry from new:
* EMRR assumes no responsibility for the prize once it leaves
our or the prize donor's location. EMRR is not liable for any damages or injury caused by the assembly or use of the
prize.
Eleven is the
first number which cannot be represented by a human using his or her ten fingers, it is often considered a mysterious
number. 
Eleven is only one hour before
12:00—midnight—the eleventh hour means the last possible moment to take care of something, and often implies
a situation of urgent danger or emergency.![[E-Mail]](../images/anishared_send-pencil.gif)
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