In an interview with investigators, Lund said he was not aware of the term and said the devices were used to launch hobby rockets. The PVC pipe was later found to contain black-colored powder and ...

A few years back my son was given a ticket for launching a small Estes model rocket from a concrete pad in a Longmont park.

He really pulled the curtain back and shared some fascinating information about the project and rocketry in general, so if you’re at all interested in the hobby, we’d suggest reading through ...

For this early prototype, power is solely from hobby rocket motors, providing thrust for 1.6 seconds, meaning flight times are necessarily short. The craft is launched from an aluminium profile ...

Abstract: On team PRIUS, our goal is to take tried-and-true heritage knowledge of hobby rocket airframe design and build upon it to construct an airframe that interfaces with the systems being ...