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Free Home Page6/23/98 - Revamped and reorganized much of the site. Notable additions are a gallery of my rockets, a page about building my airspeed flap chute release, a page with an idea for a Science-Olympiad-legal chute release, and better/more pictures of the rockets and rocket people I saw on my trip to Japan and Thailand a year ago. Many other small changes as well.
4/28/98 - Added a new page with photos of many of my rockets, a page about "The Skewer," an 8 foot long tube rocket, and a page about its construction.
1/12/98 - Added a downloadable zipped text file (693 K) containing all the rocket mail I've saved since 12/96, all 1450 messages!! Many of them precede the water rocket mailing list. It's 2.5 Mb of text when unzipped. Naturally there's a lot of junk in there, but for those with the patience to wade through there's a wealth of information to be gleaned from it.
11/23/97 - A page about my rocket glider (which, ahem, hasn't really worked very well yet), and a page about yet another easy-to-build launcher design. Also updated the Robinson Coupling page a bit, and updated this main page slightly, adding links to the new stuff in the right places.
10/15/97 - A page showing the basics of a potentially promising new rocket configuration, not too tough to build, and very stable.
10/5/97 - A page with the full-size drawings of my velocity-sensitive parachute release. The explanatory text and the smaller pictures remain on Gary Ensmenger's site where they were originally posted.
9/10/97 - A page about the "Robinson Coupling." Also added info about the water rocket mailing list.
8/8/97 - A couple pages with pictures and captions from the "Idea" water rocket contest held at the Kagamihara Aerospace Museum, Gifu-prefecture, Japan on June 1st, 1997. It's an "Idea" contest for water rockets, encouraging experimentation. This contest will be held again next year!! Maybe we can send some rockets...or even ourselves! Note that the graphic on each of these pages is necessariy large - about 90K - so it will take a while to load. There is a link on each page to the hi-res version (about 300k) as well, for you masochists. Many, many thanks to Shushi Shiota for sending the pictures so I could scan them, and for providing the captions.
5/97 - Here's a brief trip report from my recent trip to Thailand and Japan. It was mostly a normal vacation, but rocketry crept in a bit, especially in Japan, where water rockets are very popular.
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