Bottle Rockets (B)

[starpug]

Does anyone have suggestions/advice for someone that has never built a bottle rocket before?

The wiki the wiki the wiki Bottle Rockets Wiki
Yeah most of what you need can start at the wiki
also read the Egg-O-Naut thread and I think there might be an archive from the last time it was an event on the archive.

[LolBubbles]

its like a competition, only we just have to build it within 1 class period! any suggestions onit?

[starpug]

its like a competition, only we just have to build it within 1 class period! any suggestions onit?

Yargh, look at the wiki, I advise to use the top of one bottle as the base for the nose cone then fins from something stiff yet easily attachable. Attach the nose cone to the bottle with string then attach the parachute really close to the nose cone and wieght the nose cone. Search threads people I'm sick of telling people to look at the wiki and saying stuff I've said before.

[computernerd4826]

anybody know why they didnt give out medals in this at nats?

[rocketman1555]

probably because it was a trial event

[kp9ssa]

didnt they give out medals for microbes. They also didnt tell u how u did if u werent in the top 6

[haven chuck]

It was a pilot event, not a trial event. Trial events have medals given out and the scores publickly posted, and the event is likely to happen in the near future as an actual event. Pilot events are there mostly for fun, and no medals are given and scores are only given to the competitors at the time of the event. Microbe Mission was a Trial events, but Bottle Rockets was a pilot event.

[kp9ssa]

oh.. thanks