"Protest" Rocket

That statement is simply false.

I cite NFPA regulations (authored by NAR and TRA) and adoption of unnecessary LEUP permits, magazines and logs for goods clearly EXEMPT under 27 CFR 555.141-a-8.

None of which were hybrids.

Jerry

Great comments, Doug, but I think you're off by over an order of magnitude. Last time I saw the numbers, Estes alone was claiming 500 million safe flights. That number goes up at least 10 million a year. I'd bet a quick call to mary Roberts would get you the current numbers.

Don't feel too bad. Back when we were tryiong the get the FAA to change its regs (and got 101.22 as a result) I responded to their NPRM. IIRC I was the only one to notice thaty they said THOUSAND instead of MILLION!

Of course Estes sales numbers could be like McD: "100 billion served, 3 eaten" :-)

Its an 'Art' project - not real. Check out the other projects.

Jerry, with all due respect, get bent.

But it is a real rocket:

OK, so how many unsafe flights does Estes claim? I have to admit that my first flight, would have been a DQ.

I'd swear I've seen you personaly eat more than 3. :-)

Alan

Art, schmart. Even suggesting that you could use a sport rocket for something that idiotic is like spitting in my holy water. Good thing he's a half a world away, or this "artist" would be pining for the fjords if I had anything to say about it.

A 32.5lb (inc payload) steel bodied hybrid that reaches 17000 ft at

Anyone work out what class motor that is?

Doug is right though, to suggest this use is irresponsible, as some nut will think it a great idea. However I don't expect to see this one launched any time soon. Artists like to be controversial - lets not encourage them.

I see there is mention of messing with food crops. I thought screwing over the food supply was considered an act of terrorism. Maybe Mr. Ponytail should peddle his missle-laden bike around Washington, DC and see what happens. It would warm my heart to see that clown sent to Gitmo......

Geography 101 - Denmark is a flat, low-lying country without mountains.

Perhaps you have fjord and herring confused?

Less angst, more accuracy :-)

G.

"Pining for the fjords" is an expression loosely connected (from a Monty Python sketch) meaning he would be dead...

If you don't know this, that's been corrected. If you do know this, and are just being a nit-picker, consider it artistic license...

David Erbas-White

Doug

David, I was aware - just wasn't sure if that was the context it was being used in.

If you strip out the payload distribution side of things, it's a neat rocket, for sure - 17k feet isn't a bad altitude for what appears to be a small homebrewed hybrid motor. I might have to have a closer look at the plans for this.

G.

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Does anybody else think it a wee bit odd that the suggestion for protesting genetically modified food crops is to spew genetically modified weed seeds across the field?

Yeah, that'll show 'em. Them GM crops is bad. We better release GM super weeds to protest them.

To quote the Brothers Magliozzi from Cambridge, Mass,

"Bohohohgus"

ScottE

From a Monty Python quote, you're expecting geographic precision?