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Rocket picture from Bdale Garbee's talk at LinuxCon Japan 2012

Posted Jul 7, 2012 19:01 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981)
Parent article: Rocket picture from Bdale Garbee's talk at LinuxCon Japan 2012

Yay, just launched a much smaller one after a ten year break today :)
And the young boys saw it can be done by hand not bought by money.

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Homemade rockets

Posted Jul 8, 2012 10:17 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Can you really reach Mach 1.3 with a homemade rocket? It used to take a dedicated team of engineers for much less than that (in the days of the V-2). And, is it legal?

Homemade rockets

Posted Jul 9, 2012 4:54 UTC (Mon) by bdale (subscriber, #6829) [Link]

Yes, and yes!

Homemade rockets

Posted Jul 9, 2012 7:04 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Then it's really cool!