Handbook of Model Rocketry

Handbook of Model Rocketry
by G. Harry Stine

Handbook of Model Rocketry
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Author: G. Harry Stine
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-03
ISBN: 0471593613
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Wiley

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Book Review: A great reference for any model rocket enthusiast!
Summary: 5 Stars

When I first read this book, I was merely a 15 year old begginer to the wonderful hobby of rocketry. After having sifted all the fundementals and vital information that made up this fascinating field, I found that what I intially thought to be simple was, indeed, the result of meticulas and crucial technical planning. Rocketry is fun, however the complexity and engineering of a rocket lies hidden. This book enveils that complexity and helps the reader comprehend it in a relatively easy manner. This is an extremely good aspect of the book because it spares the reader of the frequent hair-pulling frustration due to confusion.

The preliminary chapters allow the reader to become more deaply familiar to the general aspects of the hobby. Things like basic model rocket components and construction as well as how to get started in order to eventually become deaply involved in the hobby are covered in these sections. You'll find that much of the information in this section is, most likely, stuff you may already be familiar with if you're a more experienced novice.

The book then procedes to more detailed and more technical aspects of rocketry. From chapters 5 and on, more technical information is presented, however, in a format that makes understanding easy. Rocket motors, ingnition systems, stabilty, rocket aerodynamics and altitude determination are some of the many aspects covered.

Another great feature of this book is that BASIC type computer programs that simulate and caculate crucial values and overall rocket performance can be found in the books's appendix already written. All you have to do is re-write the code in a BASIC computer program compiler and you're ready to make complex mathematical calculations for your rocket design in a matter of seconds.

All in all, a great reference that any model rocket enthusiast will want to cherish forever. I also find that this book is great in terms of further inspiring young rocketeers, like myself, to persue a career in the field of rocketry and aerospace. It sure has for me!

Thankyou Mr. Stine!

Summary of Handbook of Model Rocketry

The Classic Guide by the "Father of Model Rocketry" Now Completely Revised and up to Date? This new edition of the model rocketeer?s "bible" shows you how to safely build, launch, track, and recover model rockets?and have fun doing it. Whether you?re a beginner or a veteran model rocketeer, the Handbook of Model Rocketry, the official manual of the National Association of Rocketry (NAR), will become your well-used reference book. G. Harry Stine has been a model rocketeer since 1957 when he founded the NAR and started the first model rocket company. Stine?s Handbook, after satisfying rocket enthusiasts for nearly three decades, remains the definitive resource. Recent technological progress has had a major effect on the model rocket hobby and sport. This revised and updated edition covers such new technology as:
  • revised computer programs that use improved versions of Basic composite propellant model rocket motors
  • recently approved reloadable model rocket motors building and flying large model rockets
  • radio-controlled boost gliders and rocket gliders
  • solid-state, microchip, computer-readable modules used to measure temperature, pressure, acceleration, and airspeed

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