Rec.Models.Rockets FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions)
Part 3: Rocketry on the Internet
Posted: May 31, 2002
Last modified: May 29, 2002
3.1 How do I get to the r.m.r archive site?
The old Sunsite rec.models.rockets archive has not been active since
sometime in 1999. The archives are now part of the ibilio.org domain:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/archives/rec.models.rockets
3.2 What is available from the r.m.r archive?
The r.mr. archive used to be the 'official' archive site for rocketry-related
materials submitted by r.m.r contributors. The archive has been static for
the past few years. The archive still has a number of useful
files. The following are some of the subdirectories of the archive,
and a brief description of what is in them.
ARTICLES - documents. Informative how-to articles, and other text.
BATF - BATF information
CATALOGS - manufacturer catalogs (a few might actually be current)
CYBERROC - various software for rocketry, including VCP
DIGITRAK - a directory for DigiTrak rocket flight modeling software
ELECTRONICS - rocketry electronics
FAA - FAA information
GRAPHICS - pictures of rockets, launches, and people, scale data, logos, etc.
LISTS - certified motor lists, club listings
PLANS - rocket plans, including old kit plans and decal scans
PROGRAMS - rocketry software, including tracking software and propep
PROGRAMS.MAC - rocketry software for the Mac
PROGRAMS1 - more rocketry software
PROGRAMS2 - even more rocketry software
PROGRAMS3 - yet even more rocketry software
PROGRAMS4 - lots more rocketry software - Go Nuts!
R.M.R_POSTINGS - an archive of every r.m.r. posting since late Nov. 1991
RASP - a directory for RASP rocket flight modeling software (PC and Mac)
RMRFAQ - the r.m.r. FAQ
ROCKetCAD - demo CAD software for rockets
SOUNDS - .WAV and Macintosh System 7 sound files of launches
Winroc - a directory for WinRoc rocket flight modeling software
3.3 How do I upload files to the r.m.r. archive?
At this time, you can't. This will change soon.
3.4 I have read-only access to r.m.r. Is there any way I can still post articles to the newsgroup?
Try http://www.google.com/
3.5 What are some neat rocketry web pages to check out?
*** IMPORTANT ROCKETRY WEB SITES ***
HTML version of the entire FAQ:
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/rmrfaq.toc.html
ROCKETRY ONLINE
http://www.rocketryonline.com/
Rocketry Online is a comprehensive web site for everything to do with
rocketry and the Internet.
NAR - The National Association of Rocketry home page
http://www.nar.org/
Home page for the worlds largest and oldest consumer rocketry organization.
TRA - Tripoli Rocketry Association
http://www.tripoli.org/
Official home page of the Tripoli Rocketry Association
CAR - Canadian Association of Rocketry
http://www.canadianrocketry.org/
Home page of the Canadian Association of Rocketry. Check out what's
happening north of the U.S.
UKRA - United Kingdom Rocketry Association
http://www.ukra.org.uk/
Home page for the United Kingdom's largest consumer rocketry organization.
European Model Rocketry
http://www.europerocketry.com/
Comprehensive Web site for rocketry in Europe.
New Zealand Rocketry Association
http://www.rockets.co.nz/nzra/nzra.htm
Home page for the New Zealand Rocketry Association.
SAMROC - South Africa Model Rocket Club
http://www.samroc.org.za/
*** ROCKETRY CLUB HOME PAGES BY STATE ***
ALABAMA
HARA: Huntsville Area Rocketry Association, NAR Section 403
http://home.hiwaay.net/~bday/hara/
ARIZONA
Arizona High Power Rocketry Association
http://www.goodnet.com/~roktdan/ahpra/
SARA: Southern Arizona Rocket Association, NAR Section 545
http://www.sararocketry.org/
SSS: Superstition Spacemodeling Society - Tripoli Phoenix
http://www.sssrocketry.org/
CALIFORNIA
AEROPAC: Association of Experimental Rocketry of the Pacific
http://www.aeropac.org/
BAYNAR: NAR Section 359
http://www.bynar.org/
DART: Diego Area Rocket Team
http://www.tns.net/dart
LUNAR: Livermore Unit of the NAR, NAR Section 534
http://www.lunar.org/
ROC: Rocketry Organization of California - Tripoli Anaheim
http://www.rocstock.org/
SCRA: Southern California Rocket Assoc., NAR Section 430
http://home.earthlink.net/~mebowitz/
COLORADO
COSROCS: Colorado Rocket Society, NAR Section 515
http://www.cosrocs.org/
Colorado Rocketry Association of Space Hobbyists - CRASH
http://www.crashonline.org/
CONNECTICUT
CATO: CATO Rocketry Club, NAR Section 581
http://www.catorockets.org/
CTRA/NARCONN
http://www.ctra-narconn.org/
FLORIDA
Florida Spacemodeling Association
http://fsatwp2001.tripod.com/
Spaceport Rocketry Association, NAR Section 342
http://home.cfl.rr.com/sra/
THOR - Tampa/Hillsborough Organization of Rocketry
http://members.surfbest.net/bwynn@surfbest.net/thor.htm
GEORGIA
Southern Area Rocketry
http://www.soar571.com/
ILLINOIS
CIA: Central Illinois Aerospace, NAR Section 527
http://www.prairienet.org/cia/
NIRA: Northern Illinois Rocketry Assocation, NAR Section 117
http://www.NIRA-rocketry.org/
INDIANA
Rocketeers of Central Indiana
http://www.indyrockets.org/roci.html
SCAM: Summit City Aerospace Modelers, NAR Section 282
http://www.mixi.net/~bobhart/
Launch Crue - Holland, IN
http://www.geocities.com/launchcrue519/
KANSAS
K.L.O.U.D.Busters Inc., TRA Prefect
http://www.kloudbusters.org/
KENTUCKY
Kentuckiana Rocketry Association
http://www.ntr.net/~cdutley/krahome.htm
MARYLAND - WASHINGTON DC
NAR Headquarters AeroModelers Society, NAR Section 139
http://www.narhams.org/
Tripoli Maryland
http://www.mdtripoli.org/
MASSACHUSETTS
CMASS: Central Massachusetts Spacemodeling Society, NAR Section 464
http://www.cmass.org/
MICHIGAN
Huron Valley Rocket Society
http://www.huvars.org/
MISSOURI
St. Louis Rocketry Association
http://www.stlouisrocketry.org/
NEW JERSEY
Garden State Spacemodeling Society
http://www.robnee.com/gsss
Tripoli North Jersey
http://www.metrarocketclub.org/
Southern Jersey Area Rocket Society
http://www.sojars.org/
NEW YORK
ASTRE: Albany-Schenectady-Troy Rocket Enthusiasts of New York,
Section 471 of the NAR
http://www.astre471.org/
MARS: Monroe Astronautical Rocketry Society
Section 136 of the NAR
http://www.marsclub.org/
LIARS: Long Island Advanced Rocketry Society, TRA Prefecture 29,
and the North Shore Section 142 of the NAR
http://www.liars.org/
Buffalo Rocket Society - Tripoli Western NY
http://www.buffalorocketsociety.org/
OHIO
Northern Ohio's Tri City Sky Busters, NAR Section 535
http://www.skybusters.org/
Northeastern Ohio's Mantua Township Missile Agency, NAR Section 606
http://web.raex.com/~markndeb/rockets/mtma/
Queen City Area Rocket Klub - QUARK
http://crash.to/quark
Toledo Area Rocketry Society
http://pages.prodigy.net/jjschmidt/
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Tripoli
http://members.cox.net/tripoli-oklahoma
PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Space Command, NAR Section 473
http://www.psc473.org/
Southern Pennsylvania Area Association of Rocketry
http://www.spaar.org/
Blastoff Rocket Club - Erie
http://frontpage.velocity.net/duane/index.html
SOUTH CAROLINA
Tripoli South Carolina
http://www.tripolisc.com/
TEXAS
DARS: Dallas Area Rocket Society, NAR Section 308
http://www.dars.org/
AARG: Austin Area Rocketry Group
http://www.aarg.org/
NHRC: NASA/Houston Rocket Club, NAR Section 365, TRA 002
http://www.nhrc.homestead.com/
UTAH
UROC: Utah Rocketry Club
http://www.uroc.org/
VIGINIA
NOVAAR: Northern Virginia Area Association of Rocketry
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8561
WEST VIRGINIA
West Virginia Society of Amateur Rocketry
http://www.wvsoar.org/
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin Organization of Spacemodeling Hobbyists - WOOSH
http://www.wooshrocketry.org/
*** WEB SITES OF GENERAL INTEREST TO ROCKETRY ***
Apollo-Saturn Reference Page
John Duncan's guide to the Saturn V and Saturn 1b, with loads of
scale data for the modeler.
http://www.apollosaturn.com/
BATF
http://www.atf.treas.gov/
BATF "Orange Book"
A scanned copy of the BATF non-copyrighted book titled,
"ATF - Explosives Law and Regulation,"
http://www.info-central.org/regulatory/orangebook/
http://members.aol.com/RocketWeb/regulate/atf/orange.htm
Certified Motor Listings
NAR Standards and Testing Committee
http://www.nar.org/SandT/NARenglist.shtml
Tripoli Motor Testing
http://www.tripoli.org/motors.htm
Cineroc Sites
Places were you can find stuff about the old Estes Cineroc movie camera
http://www.techblvd.com/Rvideo/rvideo.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OldRockets/
Competition Rocketry
http://www.nar.org/competition/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contestRoc/
http://www.acmenet.net/jvincent/nercb.html
Early Space Flight
John Sisson of UC Irvine has created terrific web page about early
visions of spaceflight, including material from Ley, Disney, and our
own G. Harry Stine.
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm
Electronics and Rocketry
Ed's web site devoted to electronics used in consumer rocketry.
Currently has VCP files and information about Taniwha Flight Computers
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7318
FAA Form 7711-2 Application for Certificate of Waiver
downloadable/printable copy of Form 7711-2
http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/Waiver.htm
Model/High Power Rocketry Motor Dimensions
http://www.dnaco.net/~dantassi/motors.html
Model Rocket Drag Analysis
John DeMar's R&D report containing useful CD data
http://web.syr.edu/~smdemar/rocketdrag.html
National Fire Protection Association
http://www.nfpa.org/
Northeast Regional Contest Board page
http://www.acmenet.net/jvincent/nercb.html
Old Rockets, Old Rocketeers, Nostalgia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OldRockets/
http://www.dars.org/jimz/rp00.htm
rec.models.rockets Design Contest Homepage
Enter your rocket design in the ongoing r.m.r. Design Contest!
Winners receive prizes from generous r.m.r. readers.
http://www.aeroconsystems.com/descon/rmr_descon_index.htm
VCP Software Archive
Official site for Gary Crowell's CP/CG Calculator.
Stabilize your designs!
http://www.v-serv.com/vcp/
Water Rockets
Gary Ensmenger's Water Rocket Playground:
http://www.h2orocket.com/
Yahoo -
http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Hobbies_and_Crafts/Rockets
The above is a great starting point and has a large number of pointers
to other rocketry sites.
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/rockets.html
This is the rocketry page of Sven Knudson.
He has the most up-to-date HTML version of the rec.models.rockets FAQ.
He also has great rocketry pages and the rec.models.scale FAQ.
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