Model Rocket Design and Construction: How to Create and Build Unique and Exciting ...
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This used book is in Acceptable condition. This 328-page book guides readers through the process of taking an imaginative concept and planning for its creation (called designing a rocket?), and then actually building it using inexpensive materials with a minimum about of time. The ...MoreThis used book is in Acceptable condition. This 328-page book guides readers through the process of taking an imaginative concept and planning for its creation (called designing a rocket?), and then actually building it using inexpensive materials with a minimum about of time. The result is a great-looking rocket that can be safely and successfully launched again and again. In the 22 chapters, this book covers topics like: simplified methods for building complex rockets, painting and finishing techniques for a sleek looking rocket, strengthening rockets without adding a lot of weight, parachute design and attachment, techniques for making high power rockets, designing those unique helicopter and glider recovery models, flight testing the completed rockets, making clustered and multi-stage rockets, reducing drag so rockets fly higher and faster, designing both statically and dynamically stable rockets in order to get a straighter launch trajectory, selecting rocket motors for optimum flight performance, and even how to get ideas for new creations that no one has ever thought of before. Besides showing how to build rockets, the book is also an in-depth educational manual on rocket science and therefore can be used as a school textbook. The reader will learn about rocket propulsion, aerodynamics, stability, and structural design. More importantly, the reader will get a sense of how all these "rocket-science" disciplines interact with each other, and they will see the trade-offs they may have to make when designing high performance rockets.Less