Kathy Miller's PageAKA: Rocketlady Location: Lenox, Michigan Certification Level: L3 TRA Club Memberships: JMRC, NAPAS, Team-1 Favorite Rockets: Fiddle Faddles of all sizes, crayons, anything "kewl" Biography: I've been hooked on rockets since March, 2000. I first found out about rockets and rocketry from friends I met on the 'net after viewing their rocketry sites. My first thoughts were "They're dust collectors like the 3-D puzzles I build or the model cars my brother builds." After building my first model rocket, an Estes Alpha and flying it, my thoughts were "Ah ha! This is the fun part!" And, thus, I became a Newbie.... quickly graduating up to a Tripoli Level 1 certification in July 2000 and four months later I achieved my Tripoli Level 2 certification in November, 2000. I earned my Tripoli Level 3 certification in April 2006.
Favorite Quote: Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Werner von Braun
"I'm not sleeping; I'm thinking with my eyes closed!"
Personal Home Page: http://home.comcast.net/~r5ck4t3l2dy1/Fiddle%20Faddle%20Flight.htm RocketReviews.com Pages:
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2010-06-06Public Missiles Thunder -N- Lightning (Kit)  Review
Brief: This is the PML two-stage Thunder & Lightning kit. It comes with the CPR3000 electronics bay
and the interstage coupler to house the timer.
Construction:
Quantum tubing airframes – one for the booster and three for the sustainer. The fin can sections came
... [More]
First Flight Hobbies Mega-Sonic (Kit)  Review
Brief: A single stage large model rocket.
Construction:
Two sheets of 1/8” balsa fin stock – 3” X 16” and 4” X 16”
Fin patterns and alignment guide
Balsa nose cone
Two BT 60 body tubes – 8” and 11”
BT 60 coupler
24mm... [More]
2009-11-21Orchido Flight - A8-3 [More]
Model Minutes XFLR-7 Flight - C11-3 [More]
LOC/Precision Cyclotron Flight - G185-7 [More]
Sunward Aerospace Maverick Flight - D12-5 [More]
2009-11-14Orchido Flight - A8-3 [More]
Jammin' Flight - A8-3 [More]
38mm Fiddle Faddle two stage  Flight - I236/H125 [More]
Rocket Vision Six-Pack Flight - C11-3 [More]
Estes Exoskell Flight Chute tangled in lander legs. No damage. - C5-3 [More]
Estes Snitch Flight - C6-3 [More]
2009-07-11FlisKits Dead Ringer (Kit)  Review
Brief:
A MicroMaxx kit with unique large rings for fins.
Construction:
The parts came very well packaged and include:
¼" x 2" coupler
BT-2.5 x 1" tube
BT-2.5 x 5" tube
Launch lug
Streamer
30" Kevlar®
thread shock cord
Laser cut... [More]
2009-06-21Scratch SynerJet (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Kathy Miller - 06/21/09)
Brief:
This a scratch built spaceship rocket designed for the 2009 Design-A-Spaceship contest. It is constructed of 110lb
cardstock and presentation board.
Construction:
The parts include:
BT-50 for the internal tube/motor... [More]
2009-05-24Sunward Aerospace King Tut's Pyramid (Kit)  Review
Brief:
An E-G powered pyramid that comes with laser cut balsa and plywood parts. It's rated as a skill level 4, but I would
say it's more like a skill level 3.
Construction:
The parts came very well packaged and include:
BT-80 coupler
Launch lug
Thrust ring
2 plywood... [More]
2009-04-19Quest-Estes Bertha Moon (Kit)  Review
(Contributed - by Kathy Miller - 04/19/09)
Brief:
For this bird I used the parts from an Estes Baby Bertha and a Quest Full Moon to come up with something just a bit
different.
Construction:
For this build I used the Baby Bertha's airframe as is out of the package but used the Full... [More]
2009-03-24Red Arrow Hobbies Black Brant II (Kit)  Review
Brief:
This Black Brant II is a 2.6" X 58" tall rocket made using Red Arrow's phenolic tubing and their custom
made nose cone and tail cone. It comes with a 38mm MMT although it can fly on a wide range of 29mm and 38mm motors
depending how far you wish to walk. With some... [More]
2009-03-15Scratch Two Stage Fiddle Faddle (Scratch)  Review
Brief:
This is a staged version of one of my favorite rockets called "Fiddle Faddle" adapted from plans I found on the internet years ago. I have modeled this design in RockSim, and while the 3D image doesn't look like the actual model as per the box fin, it does give reasonable... [More]
Model Minutes M.O.M. (Multi Operations Missile) (Kit)  Review
(Contributed - by Kathy Miller - 03/15/09)
Brief:
This is a skill level 1 kit with pre-printed full-color body parts printed on sturdy paper. Each kit comes with
instruction sheets done up in a three dimensional effect with 3-D glasses for viewing the color photos. I made the
'glasses'... [More]
2006-07-08Scratch The MicroGlia (Scratch)  Review
(Design this
Spaceship Submission - by Kathy Miller - 07/08/06)
The MicroGlia
Assembly photos by Kathy Miller
Static and Flight photos by Buzz Nau.
Click for Kathy Miller's
Word DOC Submission
Parts List
1 Estes PNC20 nosecone
10" Estes PNC20 airframe
18mm... [More]
0000-00-00Descon Snowman (Kit)  Review Snowman
by Kathy Miller
The idea of the Snowman rocket first came to me last winter around the
Christmas holidays. I had contemplated a Christmas tree and thought "Too
easy," then maybe a reindeer and thought "the antlers would be a
problem". That was when I decided on a... [More]
Descon It's Miller Time (Kit)  Review (Contributed - by Kathy Miller) I saw this bottle at the store
where I work and just knew it had "rocket" written all over it!
Parts List:
one plastic beer bottle bank with lid
two BT80 tubes from an Estes Phoenix "parts" kit
one coupler from the same kit
two... [More]
Descon 1/4 Karat Carrot (Kit)  Review
¼ Karat
Carrot
by Kathy Miller
When I saw this plastic carrot filled with candy in an Easter display, well,
it just cried out, “I’m a ROCKET!!” It looks sort of like it
could something out of a Marvin the Martian cartoon, too.
Materials:
One (1) plastic carrot (It... [More]
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