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Magazine of the New Zealand Rocketry Association
Updated 14 July 2004


Contents:
Issue 1 Aug 2000 Issue 5 Sept 2001 Issue 9 Apr 2003
Issue 2 Oct 2000 Issue 6 Jan 2002 Issue 10 Oct 2003
Issue 3 Jan 2001 Issue 7 Mar 2002 Issue 11 July 2004
Issue 4 April 2001 Issue 8 Sept 2002

 
 
August 2000
October 2000
Club Launchings Auckland :
April 4 2000, Ngatea
Feb 6, 2000 Ngatea
March 5 Ambury Farm
 
Altitude   K class: flight to 1.829 kms
Articles Why We Need an Association
- S Kirkby
Warbirds 2000 - M Gardner
Members Martin Gardner (AK) Paul Lucas (BoP)
Hints/Tips Storage of Motors - M Gardner
Tips for First Time Rocketeers
-G Munden
 
Product News PML Kits and Parts, Adept Electronics, Aerotech, Quest Kits - Aerospace Education  
Education Rocketry Holiday Programmes
- Aerospace Education
Insurance Policy - S Kirkby
About Rocket Motors I
 - G Munden
Space   NASA e-theatre
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January 2001
April 2001
Club Launchings Auckland:
July 30 Ngatea 
Sept 3 Ambury Farm

Bay of Plenty
Aug 6

National:
Feb 1 Taupiri

Auckland:
Oct 8 Ngatea
Dec 3 Ngatea

Hutt Valley:
Feb 18

Articles Book Review: 
The Coalwood Way
By Homer Hickam
Lost in Scrub -tracking an errant Amraam III rocket
- P Weatherly
  Millennium Fireworks
- M Van Tiel
 
Education   About Rocket Motors II
- G Munden
Model rocket Plans for Beginners,
Rocketry Holiday Programmes
- Aerospace Education
     
Product News   Quest Kits, Daveyfire Igniters,
Expanding Foam -
Aerospace Education
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September 2001
January 2002
Club Launchings Auckland
June 3 Taupiri
Auckland
Oct 1 Taupiri

Hutt Valley
Oct 21 Fraser Park

Articles Fireships NZ - M Twain
Land Speed Rocket Cars
 -G Munden
LDRS XX (USA)
Ambury Farm - launch status
-S Kirkby
Year in Review
El Nova On-Board Video 
 Pictures

Aerotech Fire

Hints & Tips O-rings - M Gardner
2 stage rockets - P Weatherly
 
Education   Beginnings of Model Rocketry, Types of Model Rockets, How they Fly, Getting Started, Motor Coding System, Safety Code
Product News Quest, Estes, Missileworks, Micromaxx Aerospace Education Aerotech Redline motors
- Aerospace Education
Space National Air & Space Museum  
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March 2002
Sept 2002
Club Launchings Auckland
Feb 3 National Launch Taupiri
Auckland
Lloyd Elesmore Park
 CD ROM  National Launch coverage
 Space    Civilian Space shot postponed
Articles In the Beginning - G Munden
Aerotech Fire - Update
INCOMING! Index
 UK Rocketry Assn - Woodspring Wings Air Show
New Aerotech Factory
Education  Range Safety Member Achievement Programme
Danger Areas Update
Product News Public Missiles Kits,
RMS 38mm expanded closures,
Engine Mount Adaptors, phenolic couplers, Missileworks PET and RCC electronics 
- Aerospace Education
Quest - Zenith II
AE - Starflight budget rocket
35mm V2 Tailcone, 86cms BT50, BT50 AE balsa cone, BT20AE body tube, economy engine mount
- Aerospace Education
Photos 2 stage Nike Hercules-
R Bleeker 
Waiuku Sea Scouts
Mt Roskill Grammar School
Hutt Valley
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April 2003
Oct 2003
Club Launchings Auckland
 National Launch Taupiri - Feb, Lloyd Elsmore - March
Hutt Valley
Petone Recreation Ground
 
Product Reviews Quest Pip Squeak  
 Space  3rd stage of moon rocket found  The Columbia disaster
Gerry Munden
Articles Aerotech Begins Production
NZ Aerospace Society
Building a two-stage, clustered motor,  high power Nike Hercules - Bob Bleeker
 That first launch...
Building a two-stage, clustered motor,  high power Nike Hercules, Part II
- Bob Bleeker
Altitude Open Class Record - 13, 701ft
- M Van Tiel
F class high power record - 
1,298ft -Mathew Graham 
Product News 12 new Quest Kits, VMX-2 rocket-powered glider
- Aerospace Education
Estes Saturn V, PICO altimeter, advanced rocketry parts- Aerospace Education
Photos Hutt Valley
National Launch
New Quest Kits
Nike Hercules
Nike Hercules
Captain Music Airscouts
Hamilton Scouts
Lloyd Elesmore
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July 2004
Technical Mass, thrust, exhaust velocity and Specific impulse.
-Martin Gardner
 
 Space SpaceshipOne - first 'amateur' manned flight into space.
Japan in Space.
-Gerry Munden
 
Articles  Hypertek hybrid rockets.
-Paul Weatherly
Sale of Aerotech assets
 
Altitude  Tripoli M flight to 13,707m   
Photos Auckland - Nat.  Launch Feb 04. 
Auckland - April 04, June 04, Hybrid rockets
Japan's spacecraft and rockets.
SpaceshipOne
 
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