Last Updated on: March 12 , 1999
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High Powered Model Rockets
Jeff Davenport
Tripoli #4486 Level: 2
Metra :TRA: # 94 B.O.D.
NAR # 63238 Level: 2
 
 
 
How I Got Started!

 
                    It all started in 1991 when I was introduced to rocketry by my 8th grade metal shop teacher.
          We built small Estes rockets . Mainly: Big Berthas , Zingers , & my first rocket the Reliant.
           I bought a Patriot starter set that summer , but I couldn't buy rocket motors for my rockets
         because back then NJ required you to be 18 & a license to buy them . I was only 15 at the time.
             So rockets went by the waist side until that law was repealed a couple years  later.......

               When I got back into rocketry a year or so after the law was changed I found out
                 there was life after a : D engine. So I attended my first HP launch at a near
                               by fair grounds . Where I launched  my first F motor :
                              a Vulcan (aka: Spock motor) F 80 Hell Fire.
                       Much to my amazement I saw everything from an Estes A up
                to an Aerotech I 357 reload for the first time . Launched by : Bill Rossi & soon
               to be Metra ( Metropolitan Rocket Association ) president . My reaction was :
                   Man , is that motor loud. I have got to get myself one of those motors!
                           That year I attended R.A.T.S II ( Roar At The Shore 2 )
                            in Cedarville, NJ hosted by Garden State Tripoli .
                 and saw an M  1939 motor fly for the first time.
From then on I was hooked.



 

RIGHT Now??

Well , Right now I am a member of  2 national rocket clubs: Tripoli & National Association of  Rocketry .
I usually fly H to K powered rockets .
Along with allot of clustered rockets .
I'm in the process of planning to build my Level 3 rocket .
That will consist of PML parts & will fly on a 3 or 4 inch diameter M motor .
It's kind of hard to do since I have 2 jobs & maintain 2 web pages .
This one and the METRA Rocket Club to which I am on the  Board Of Directors .



 

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