You can even find kits to make your own model rocket motors from BP or from KNO3 and sucrose. There’s lost of formulas out there. Report comment. Reply. Chuck Tweed says: ...

Model rocket accessories: Motors, Wadding & more. Editor's note: If you're going to launch model rockets, you're going to need a range of motors.

All those 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s kids out there may remember the classes of model rocket engines – generally A, B, C, and D sized engines used to push your cardboard tube with balsa fins skyward.

From the GeekDad mailbag, we’ve received the following request: My son and I have decided to build and fly our own model rocket. However, I am hopelessly mechanically and electronically dopey. I ...

BERTHOUD, Colo. (CBS4) - When you think of building rocket engines it would be easy to think of teams of scientists laboring over something as big as a school bus.

Since 1997, handlers of rocket motors that contained more than 62.5 grams of APCP have been required to get permits to buy and transport the motors across state lines, Lluberes said.

Model rocket enthusiasts are learning how to do vertical landings. Two hobbyists show how they can pull off SpaceX’s trick at a smaller scale with custom hardware and a few years of effort.

Entertainment Best model rocket sets Amazon Prime Day 2025: NASA, Blue Origin, Estes, ... Modern rocket motors have come a long way from fireworks, the first in rocket history.

Newly established Pentagon supplier of solid rocket motors X-Bow Systems says its advanced methods will set it apart from the defense primes currently making the motors that power a host of U.S ...

It took SpaceX years to successfully pull off the first vertical landing for its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. Since then, model rocket designers have attempted to recreate the feat—with Joe Barnard ...