Model Rocketry

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    Volumes

    1. Vol 1 From Basement Rockets to the Estes Catalog How a Nebraska shoe salesman's toy-rocket patent, a White Sands range engineer's safety campaign and a Denver fireworks family's motor machine turned the dangerous rocket craze of the 1950s into a mail-order hobby; and how the Estes and Centuri catalogs, the Apollo boom, contest flying, the Barrowman equations and the first rocket cameras shaped it through the 1970s
    2. Vol 2 High Power, Composites and Electronics How a Pennsylvania science club and a launch in an Ohio field grew into the Tripoli Rocketry Association and LDRS; how AeroTech's composite and reloadable motors broke the black-powder ceiling; how certification, the FAA and a ten-year lawsuit against the ATF settled the rules; and how Apogee, RockSim, Peak of Flight, OpenRocket, on-board electronics and the laser cutter changed the way rockets are designed, flown and built