Make: High-Power Rockets - Print
Make: High-Power Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. Starting with an overview of mid- and high-power rocketry, readers will start out making rockets with F and G engines, and move on up to H engines. This Essential Guide: Explains the laws and regulations around high-power rocketry Prepares the reader for Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 certification Teaches how to calculate maximum altitude for each rocket design Shows how to track rockets with radio and GPS so you get them back Demonstrates dual-deployment recovery systems so rockets land closer to the launch pad Meet the Author Mike Westerfield started programming on a PDP-8 using a teletype terminal. As the personal computer revolution got going he sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer. He wanted to write a chess program