I've purchased my last issue of "Extreme Rocketry"

Ah, but that's the problem. The title is Extreme, yes? Count pages on the number of 'extreme' projects in rocketry. Is it more or less than the number of pages devoted to the article and pictures of a person? Heck, it doesn't cover HPR.

Put some HPR or even Extreme rocketry content and he might just have a profitable magazine there.

Of course if you want a toilet mag you can read in 15 minutes, it's perfect. I've dropped Popular Science and Mechanics for that reason...

SR publishes articles on building rockets and has in almost every issue I've received.

It wins hands down for that alone.

Could "Extreme Rocketry" have a single article that's on "extreme rocketry"?

ER doesn't have enough content to bother taking to a restaurant. The last 2 issues I received had articles which were reduced from web pages (excellent pages by the way) so they could fit in the few technical pages left after the interview.

Where's the extreme?

Define "extreme". Is it just big dumb rockets? Rockets with special payloads? Homebrew motors? Composite construction? High altitude? Unusual designs? Again, I've seen all of these types of things in ER.

So basically, you want more construction articles and dump the interviews, right? Wouldn't it have been easier (and more constructive) to say that from the start? :)

Check out your local internet cafe' for lunch and on-line tech content!

Patrick

Funny, their ad contract didn't specify that. I advertised for over two years in ER, and always was billed in advance of my ad running. I only stopped running ads because "I" could no longer afford the rates to justify one order a month that the ad generated.

Mike Fisher Binder Design

Maybe the check bounced?

"the incredible Jerry Irvine...with his fantastic 2 stage Uprated Mongrel?"

Korey was a bit "pver the top." It's how legends get started.

You have already seen here on rmr how rumours get started. It doesn't take much.

One thing is certainly true. That era WAS the start of HPR as we know it now.

Jerry

Apparantly they had better terms for their non-arms length relationship with errortech.

Too bad so sad.

Jerry

Interesting factual analysis.

Was the Fat Boy flown using a D12 from the infamous year "A" or "B" (with the randomly distributed missing or minute ejection charges that could not pop the caps)??

-Fred Shecter NAR 20117

I loved that one. In the aft section the guy that's interviewed in the same issue, gets slammed for smoking.

I agree about the whinning & content. In fact I & others have commented on it several times over the years.

HPR has sucked for years. I just got the November issue. Aside from a lot of the content being old, it was ok. It's still comic book size.

Phil Stein

Open a hair salon?

It never was extreme except in name. It has a good title & lots of fluff. It should have been called Fluffy Rocketry.

Agreed.

Extreme - Anything except Yellow & Red rockets with cameras. 8-)

What about depth of the coverage? - DETAILS

On 28 Jan 2004 01:22:33 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (RayDunakin) wrote:

The only magazine that ever had depth was CRm.

Jerry