Handbook of Model Rocketry

A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry's son Bill Stine, who inherited his father's passion for model rockets, the new Seventh Edition includes the many changes in the hobby that have occurred since the last edition was published, such as new types of rockets, motors, and electronic payloads, plus computer software and Internet resources. This new edition also includes new photos and a new chapter on high-power rocketry.
G. Harry Stine, founder and one-time president of the National Association of Rocketry, started the world's first model rocket company, whose kits are now in the Smithsonian. Bill Stine, also a model rocket expert, is the founder and president of Quest Aerospace Inc.

Exceptionally well-written and exhaustive in scope, this book supplies everything today's one million plus rocketeers--teen through adult--need to know to safely build, launch, track, and recover model rockets. Recognized as the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry. Young Adult.

Harry Stine, the founder of the National Association of Rocketry, and Bill Stine, founder and president of an aerospace corporation, give instructions for building, launching, tracking, and recovering model rockets. This seventh edition features material on new types of rockets, motors, and electronic payloads, as well as relevant computer software and Internet resources, and on the latest regulations. A new chapter covers high-power rocketry. B&w photos of rockets, launches, and equipment are included. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sally J. K. Davies - Children's Literature

This new edition of the "bible of model rocketry" is packed with years of research and tested science, filled with explanations about what works, what doesn't, and why. This thick volume has chapters about getting started, the tools and techniques in the workshop, rocket construction, the motors, the ignition systems, launching techniques, the height, the stability, the aerodynamics, the multistage rockets, recovery devices, glide recovery, building and flying large models, payloads, scale models, altitude determination, model rocket ranges, the clubs, and the contests. The book includes the latest regulations, a new chapter featuring high powered rocketry, a lengthy index, an extensive bibliography, a list of important addresses and web sites, calculations, computer code, black and white photographs throughout and many labeled diagrams. 2004, John Wiley & Sons, Ages 12 up.

G. HARRY STINE was the founder and one-time president of the National Association of Rocketry. An engineer, science writer, and author, Stine also started the first model rocket company, whose kits are now in the Smithsonian.

His son, BILL STINE, is a model rocket expert in his own right and is the founder and president of Quest Aerospace Inc.