AKA: CenturiGuy, Tau Zero
Location: Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
Certification Level: Certified: no. Certifiable? Yes.
Favorite Rockets: Whatever I'm designing or building at the time
Biography:
I found the ad for a Centuri catalog for 25 cents in Boy's Life magazine in 1971. A local drug store and a hobby store in a neighboring town carried Centuri rockets. (Estes was mail-order only in my area back then.) My first rocket was a Centuri Javelin with the silkscreened fins, one-piece body tube, and plastic nose cone.
I gave up rocketry in the late 1970s, but came back when I was between jobs in 2000. In May 2002, I met and interviewed Centuri's founder for my article "Lee Piester: An Unassuming Legend," which was published in the January/February 2003 issue of Sport Rocketry.
In 2005 I designed my Tau Zero rocket, which Carl McLawhorn of Semroc released as a kit in December 2008. I occasionally show up on Ye Olde Rocket Forum (YORF), and host the "Tau Zero Rocketry" page on Facebook.
Otherwise, I'm a pretty regular guy who impersonated a TV reporter/cameraman/video editor for my day job (Nov. 2000 to Jan. 2014) here in the town where Evel Knievel *tried* to jump the Snake River Canyon on September 8, 1974. I've also been seen in the company of various musical instruments which hopelessly distract me from the otherwise fascinating hobby of model rocketry.
Favorite Quote:
(calm, resonant announcer's voice) "*Run.* Run for your *lives.*"
"Sure, I'm cynical. But it comes in handy for the day job."
Personal Home Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tau-Zero-Rocketry/342225624758
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