[FFT]philosophical musings: self regulation

It's not just model rocketry manufacturers, it's pyro companies in general. For all practical purposes, if you look at the commercial representation on the NFPA Pyrotechnics Committee, the price of a seat on that body is a minimum of one human life.

Mea culpa. I'm truly sorry to hear of the additional deaths and injuries at various manufacturers. I had only heard of the one employee killed in the Aerotech fire; I hadn't heard of the others.

However, my main point still stands -- compared to most hobby activities, rocketry is *incredibly* safe. Especially for participants, even if not necessarily so for manufacturers.

- Rick "How many kids killed by baseballs last year?" Dickinson

It must be a blue moon out or something, because I agree. You're right, nothing but stink can come from this discussion.

I was hit by a baseball once...it hurt....

Oh, you're probably correct about the manufacturers as well. How many industrial accidents occur at baseball factories? And baseball bat factories? (Let's not even talk about the hideous conditions at certain factories

NONE of those are consumer injuries.

They are manufacturing issues.

Consumer model rocketry is literally safer than needlepoint!

I was hit by a rocket once. It didn't hurt much.

No wonder I do not qualify!

Then it wasn't thrown hard enough. 8-)

Truer words were never spoken. ; )

Randy

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I had no idea. Seriously, I've never heard half of that. Who says rmr is not informative.

Is that right Bob? You were on the jury? I'd love to hear about that. Really.

Randy

No, Martin Bowitz, president of SCRA, was on the jury.

David Erbas-White

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Doh!

Sorry, it's this new prescription monitor. ; )

Randy

I think he posted to rmr about it ONCE.

Fetch.

It must have hit you in the head.

Now that you have degenerated this post like you have done to THOUSANDS before it.

The stick rocket wars were indeed "hectic" but even the "direct hits" were surprisingly benign.

As for the obvious brain damage I have, I have been cured by a couple years direct contact with Brian Teeling, Tim Collins, and Bill Lee.

Now I am back to normal.

Frank says "get a life".

Jerry

If the battery end is removed from the power supply before you approach the pad, this is a "removable interconnect".

Over the years, I've found it MUCH easier to raise the pad up to comply with this. Plus it puts the stuff I have to futz with at a reasonable level, instead of crawling on the ground. I really mis using my grandfathers old camera tripod: some IDT broke the pan head at NARAM-21, but it held even my tower so that the clips were at eye level.

It's not dangerous when you're not up in the tree. I paid to have a tree surgeon get my rocket out of a tall tree a decade back.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

That's what I was going to say too. Dragonbreath. The first use of the Kline Valve!

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

At a LUNAR launch a few years ago, there was a scheduling glitch and the park department scheduled a soccer tournament in the adjacent fields on the same day. We were trying to pull the recoveries in on top of ourselves instead of aiming for the soccer field (normally empty when we fly), but the soccer moms were freaked by the rockets anyway. The kids seemed to think it was neat: I think the coaches were a bit miffed that the kids kept slipping over to watch the rockets between games instead of hanging around to get pep-talked... there was an ambulance arrival, which never normally happens at our launches, but evidently someone managed to sustain a "911-class" injury playing soccer!

Maybe soccer needs to have its national association promulgate a safety code and try to get everyone to regerence it in some kind of government regulation... :)

-dave w