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pretty sure this isn't in the safety code...
Jul 18, 2005
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Please take a moment out of your time and report this to eBay's customer service. This has got to be against one of their sales polices. I reported it as a prohibited weapon.
This has more potential to cause harm to sport rocketry than almost anything i have seen.
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Leave it to the Canadians! 8-) Len Bryan CAR 620 L3
Yeah, I thought so too. Funny to those of us in the know but pretty scary otherwise. I'll send an email too.
Len Bryan CAR 620 L3 TRA 10220 L2
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It's gone already, what was it?
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It was a "shoulder mounted model rocket launcher." Kinda like a bazooka.
Seller claimed it was made by a Canadian company and designed to launch rockets horizontally (travelling ~400 feet) on 1/2 A's.
Just wonderful...
That sounds like something jerry published in crm years ago.
I'll see if I have a copy lying around.
A Gnome fired horizontally from shoulder height will hit the ground about
30' from the person launching it.Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!
Got one of them babies, huh Bob?
Nope. Just simple physics and RASP...
Shoulder height is about 5'. An object dropped from that height takes about half a second to hit the ground. RASP tells me that a Gnome will travel about 30' in the first half second.
Unless you have VERY high muzzle velocities, like a bazooka, you need a VERY accurate superelevation angle in order to actuallly hit a target.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!
I know, I was kidding.
Alan Jones wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
African or European?
Capistrano
David Erbas-White
Heh, heh, heh.
laden or unladen?
Tater KC9ESF NAR #79654 L1 EAA #703312
European or African?
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!
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