Here's a photo of the Opel Rak 2's 24 rockets, which held a combined 265 lbs of propellant. This car was developed in the late 30's, well in advance of the infamous V2. Hemming's Auto Blog has a ... [Read More]
Here's a video for a YouTube user appropriately named laffingastv. He/she has a bunch of videos including a somewhat wimpy 1/4-mile run. Hat tip to Chuck_Rudy on Rocketry Planet. Chuck posted this ... [Read More]
The results of the 11th installment of Rocket Car Day are now appearing . You can see a bit of the action here . Some photos here and here . Not much coverage so far, but I'm sure more will be ... [Read More]
Here's a video montage of Rocket Car Day 11 held in Sydney. Some of the cars actually seemed to go fairly straight. The most interesting and least functional design was the Steve-a-pult. This had ... [Read More]
The latest documentation from Rocket Car Day 11 is the slow-motion montage embedded below. Safety code? We don't need no steenking safety code! My favorite is the Steve-a-pult.
Rocketcar Day 11. ... [Read More]
click here for the full size image The Aussie Invader 5R rocket car, in competition with the Bloodhound SSC , is on a quest to beat the current land speed record of 763 mph. In fact, ... [Read More]
savaged , originally uploaded by agentdeclan . Every year Australian rocket car enthusiasts meet in the dusty back streets of Sydney for a day of racin', duckin' and dodgin'. This year's race was ... [Read More]
On-board video shows that, at Rocket Car Day , ya' better know how to dance! I hope the person that got burned is not too bad off. IMO, tethers/guideline would eliminate the dancing but would make ... [Read More]
Uncharacteristically, I mostly find this to be a waste of good Coke Zero. But as long as it's their Coke Zero and not mine...and the scale of the project IS cool. Via Clark Lindsey - hey Clark, ... [Read More]
Tonight, David Letterman had this woman demoing toys. One was the a rocket car that I thought was called a 'Race Rocket'. She hands Dave the controller and says to step back because ... [Read More]
The Mythbusters kicked of their 10th season with a third try at the JATO Chevy rocket car myth. A fitting start since the first try was on their very first episode. In short, the myth says that ... [Read More]
I just noticed that the TRF thread on the episode has been joined by Rick Maschek, who was involved with the making of the rocket motors. He has two Facebook albums that are viewable: Building the ... [Read More]
Click any photo to see the source album, which contains more cool photos. "Gillette Mach 3 Challenger 1999 driven by Richard Brown. Hydrogen peroxide rocket-powered motorcycle setting a two ... [Read More]
This video is at least 20% awesome. I didn't watch the whole thing but rather just skipped around to the footage of the car running. Those parts are 100% awesome. You aerodynamicists might be ... [Read More]
Like pinewood derby? Want more speed than gravity can provide? Try CO2 rocket cars. Pitsco's Science of Speed site offers all kinds of info of the competitions, the techniques, the science, and the ... [Read More]
Rocketeers.co.uk has an update on the development of the hybrid rocket motor for the Bloodhound SSC supersonic rocket car. The blogger expresses his/her " bitterly disappointed that we're ... [Read More]
Here's a recap of yet another old issue of HPR magazine. Upon searching for some background on one article, I actually found an old Rocketry Planet article announcing that this issue was shipped, ... [Read More]
If I knew this, I'd forgotten it. The Bloodhound SSC will use a 'different' kind of hybrid engine - catalyzed High Test Peroxide (HTP) + good ol' HTPB. Clark Lindsey found an article about ... [Read More]
Clark Lindsey has an update on the latest Garvey / Cal State Prospector 18A flight. This nice sized LOX/ethanol rocket carried several science experiments and 50lb of steel ballast. ... [Read More]
U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 Rocket , a photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr. "An U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space ... [Read More]
Posted by RCC on 2011-06-29 at 13:54:35 EDT The countdown has started for the launch today of the Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the ORS-1 satellite. The launch window is 8:28 to 11:28 p.m. The ... [Read More]
Take 100 NASA Photos, Stir, Make Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ , Mashable - That's what Alex Parker, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, made ... [Read More]
"A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket streaks into the night sky following its launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on June 5, 2013 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket carried the ... [Read More]
First, a couple of retro futuristic cars.
A clustered rocket sled at the Alamogordo Museum of Space History:
If we rocketeers can accept the term JATO, I guess we can let ... [Read More]
The team behind the Bloodhound rocket car and Guinness World Records are promoting science and engineering by sponsoring a quest of the fastest model rocket car. There is more background in the ... [Read More]
Here's a photo of the Opel Rak 2's 24 rockets, which held a combined 265 lbs of propellant. This car was developed in the late 30's, well in advance of the infamous V2. Hemming's Auto Blog has a ... [Read More]
