Ray King's PageAKA: rseazk5 Location: River Falls, WI Club Memberships: MASA Favorite Rockets: "Falling with Style (FWS)"
2011-08-15The Blue Hawk - 2010 Design This Spaceship Contest Entry Build This is my second submission for the EMRR Spaceship Design Competition. The rocket is designed to use an 24mm engine, rear engine ejection and 18” parachute recovery. The name Blue Hawk was chosen by my family a dinner one night – kids said it looks like a hawk and well the blue is... [More]
The Blue Hawk - 2010 Design This Spaceship Contest Entry - Blue Hawk  Build Entry
Brief
This is my second submission for the EMRR Spaceship Design Competition. The rocket is designed to use an 24mm engine, rear engine ejection and 18” parachute recovery.The name Blue Hawk was chosen by my family a dinner one night – kids said it looks like a hawk and well the blue... [More]
2011-06-29Scratch Blue Hawk (Scratch) Review
Brief
This is my second submission for the EMRR Spaceship Design Competition. The rocket is designed to use an 24mm engine, rear engine ejection and 18” parachute recovery. The name Blue Hawk was chosen by my family a dinner one night – kids said it looks like a hawk and well the... [More]
Scratch Little Red Speedo (Scratch)  Review
Brief
This is my submission for the EMRR Spaceship Design Competition as well as the EMRR Challenge #4. The rocket is designed to use an 18mm engine and 18” parachute recovery. OK – the name – My Little Red Speedo – Hey the rocket is red, it is small, it is fast, what... [More]
2010-08-01Modification U.S. Army Patriot M-104 Cluster (Modification)  Review Brief: This is part 2 of the EMRR Challenge #7 as outlined I built this rocket as I wanted, making my own modifications. I like the look of the rocket so I didn’t modify that at all – I focused on adding more power. “Tim the Tool Man Taylor would be proud” – if you... [More]
Estes U.S. Army Patriot M-104 (#2056) (Kit)  Review
Brief: I built this as part of the EMRR Challenge #7 as outlined I built this exactly as the
instructions specify and then built a second with my own modifications. This rocket is a Semi-Scale version of the US
Army Patriot Air Defense Missile. The rocket is designed to use an 18mm... [More]
2009-11-28Quest-FlisKits OverDue Tomahawk (Kit)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 11/28/09)
Brief:
I designed and built this rocket for #3 Challange of the 2009 EMRR Challenge – Kit bash 2 kits and build a
multi-stage rocket. I chose to kit bash Flis’ Long OverDue and Quest’s Tomahawk SLCM Cruise Missile. I really
... [More]
2009-11-01Scratch Starburst (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 11/01/09)
Brief:
This is my first entry for the EMRR “Spaceship Design Contest – 2009”. This year I planned to build 3
of the rockets choices, but only finished 2 of them. This is the first of them. Again this year my daughter named... [More]
Scratch Love Boat AKA. Lifeboat (Scratch)  Review
Brief:
This is my second entry for the EMRR “Spaceship Design Contest – 2009”. The name I had previously
used and planned to submit was the “The Lifeboat” because of the intended use of the X-38, but during the
launches today my cousin’s kids... [More]
2009-08-31Scratch Dark Knight (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 08/31/09)
Brief:
The Dark Knight is a 2-stage 18mm rocket with 12" chute recovery. The Dark Knight name came from the shadow
produced from the fin profile when the rocket was sitting on the launch pad. It looked similar to the Dark Knight
shadow... [More]
2009-04-11FlisKits Tiddlywink (Kit)  Review
Brief:
This is another innovative MicroMaxx rocket from FlisKits. It was developed by Jim Flis based on customer requests
and in preparation for the upcoming NARAM contest. Based on my results it will likely be a very popular model at NARAM
and any 1/8A HD... [More]
2008-12-14Scratch Falling with Style (FWS) (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 12/14/08) Brief:
This is my entry for the EMRR “Spaceship Design Contest – 2008”. I was very glad that EMRR offered
this contest again this year. My plan was to build 2 or 3 of these, but as many things go I was only able to finish one
of them.... [More]
2008-12-07Scratch Explorer 1 (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 12/07/08) Brief:
I chose to model the Explore 1 satellite as part of EMRR Challenge 2008 – Simulation Challenge. Explorer 1
(officially titled at NASA as satellite 1958 Alpha) was the first Earth satellite of the United States, launched on
February 1,... [More]
2008-08-23Scratch Baby Phoenix (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 08/23/08)
Brief:
This is my submission for the 2008 EMRR Challenge #6 - Downscale "Real" Rocket. I have all ways liked the
look of the AIM-54A Phoenix guided missile. I decided I would start with the Estes Phoenix kit as a guide along with
the... [More]
2008-07-06Scratch Bad to the Bone (Scratch)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 07/06/08) Brief:
Bad to the Bone is my submission to the “Box of Stuff” contest. This rocket flies on a 24mm engine. Upon
ejection the rocket separates into 4 components: main body, upper body, escape pod, and internal payload. The main and
upper body... [More]
2008-06-02Scratch Senior Prank (Scratch)  Review Brief: The Senior Prank was a brainstorm while I was in my favorite room of the house trying to come up with a cleaver submission to the Odd-Rocket Contest. I began focusing on the toilet paper sitting next to me on the wall for a couple of reason, but I won't go into that. I realized that... [More]
2008-05-31Estes Ranger (Kit)  Review
Brief:
I received these plans from NAR and built this as part of my NARTEK Silver achievement. In addition, this was my
first cluster rocket. During the construction I made one modification, replacing the payload section with plain BT-60
body tube. The paint scheme represents the classic... [More]
2007-12-15Scratch Neutron (Scratch)  Review Brief: This is my entry for the EMRR “Retro Spaceship” rocket design. When this contest was first introduced I was very excited that I finally had a good excuse to build a vacuum former so I picked “Cool Rockets Space Bucket”. My daughter who helped throughout build said it... [More]
2007-12-08Qualified Competition Rockets Easy Slide III (Kit)  Review
Brief:
The Easy Slide III is C motor sliding wing rocket glider sold by QCR (Qualified Competition Rockets). It uses an 18mm
motor mount and rubber band loaded wing that slides forward after the ejection charge burns the thread holding the wing
in place.
Construction:
This kit is... [More]
2007-11-24Sunward Aerospace Maverick (Kit)  Review
(Contributed - by Ray King - 11/24/07) Brief:
My entry for the EMRR's Uniquely Designed Finish Contest is the Sunward Maverick. This design was inspired by
NASCAR's #9 Kasey Kahne. Kahne is sponsored by Dodge and my son's favorite driver.
Construction and Finishing:
I modified the... [More]
2007-03-18Scratch Sunday Morning Press (Scratch)  Review Brief: What better use of the Sunday newspaper? When I started this project I thought it would be very easy to roll a tube from newspaper, after all it is really easy to do at the kitchen table. I found as with many things it is never as easy as I thought.
Construction: Parts list:
3-5 full... [More]
2001-11-20Estes Ranger (Clone)  Review Brief:
Modified Estes Ranger - a three motor cluster rocket with a payload section. My version includes a baffle and uses motor hooks that were not part of the original kit.
I was looking for a kit or a plan that would be suitable to fulfill the NARTREK Silver cluster flight requirements. This... [More]
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