Would this hobby be as expensive as cycling?

[tony111]

How big a milk bottle do you need to stand the rocket in?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 3075339, member: 45"]Not rockets, but I'm reminded of this....

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Similar, but considerably cuter..... And I can't but help whistle along with the tune too!!

This so adorable!:


View: http://youtu.be/XoMN-zg7r3M

And...... Well this is nice too!:


View: http://youtu.be/LTiM2xk3ftU

 

[vernon]

Do Rapha make rockets?

No but like rockets Rapha is a racket designed to relieve you of a disproportionate amount of disposable income.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I cycle around a local park where sometimes men fly or attempt to fly radio controlled plains and helicopters. I'm always wary of one of these objects dropping out the sky and hitting me! Isn't there enough crap flying through the air already,without you firing a stupid rocket up there for no reason? Stick to cycling it's cheaper,better for your health and more environmentally friendly!

 

[Beebo]

"Dick and Dom's Absolute Genius" ...

BOGIES
This clip shows Dick and Dom at their very finest. It's childish and Immature, but I cant watch it without laughing!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_farHgMfM

 

[simon the viking]

I cycle around a local park where sometimes men fly or attempt to fly radio controlled plains and helicopters. I'm always wary of one of these objects dropping out the sky and hitting me! Isn't there enough crap flying through the air already,without you firing a stupid rocket up there for no reason? Stick to cycling it's cheaper,better for your health and more environmentally friendly!

The rocket club I went to use farmland with permission and check overhead for aircraft (and have permission for flights up to 4500 feet.... from I assume the civil aviation authority) so is a lot safer than jokers in the park with aeroplanes......

 

[Archie_tect]

Looking forward to your first manned flight simon!

 

[Dayvo]

N+1 will be a permanent and recurring feature in your son's new hobby.

 

[vernon]

N+1 will be a permanent and recurring feature in your son's new hobby.

Whereby the + 1 is always bigger, better, accompanied by a more complex support system and whose cost is proportional to n-squared.

My neighbour's brother has plateaued with rockets costing £50 per launch, whose fuel has to be stored in metal cabinets in a first floor room and needs and and explosives license to be able to own and store them.

 

[vernon]

I cycle around a local park where sometimes men fly or attempt to fly radio controlled plains and helicopters. I'm always wary of one of these objects dropping out the sky and hitting me! Isn't there enough crap flying through the air already,without you firing a stupid rocket up there for no reason? Stick to cycling it's cheaper,better for your health and more environmentally friendly!

You are more likely to be hit with a plane or a helicopter as they tend to fly in the horizontal plain sometimes at head hieght. Their uncontrolled collisions with the ground or people tend to be at high speeds. The Motorised projectiles also tend to be heavy meaning that there's a lot of kinetic energy waiting to do a lot of damage to anyone hapless enough to be the involuntary target. Having said that the number of serious injuries to bye standers is incredible small more through good management by the BMFA than through good luck.

Rockets, the small ones that get launched in parks are small, light and move in a vertical direction on launch and their descent is controlled by a parachute, or in the case of the smallest by tumbling or by deployed ribbons - imagine being hit by a tube a quarter of the diameter of a toilet roll core and 60-80% of the length. Larger rockets are launched from private sites away from densely populated areas and once again vertical trajectories and descents controlled by parachutes make injuries improbbable.

Your fears are unfounded. As for dismissing rockets as stupid that's both stupid and intolerant.

 

[Dayvo]

Sugar and weedkiller bombs are a lot cheaper and easier to make.

Just make sure you have a good escape route.