Indoor Bottle Rocket B/C [TRIAL]

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Indoor Bottle Rocket B/C [TRIAL]

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Indoor Bottle Rocket is a trial event for Division B/C. The national trial rules are located on the national website. The division or rules may vary depending on state.
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Thoughts on rules? Ideas to get started?
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One question: Why don't they allow glues?

Is it unsafe?
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Just picked up this event, any tips?
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CookiePie1 wrote:One question: Why don't they allow glues?

Is it unsafe?
Glues can weaken the plastic pressure vessel, causing it to burst when they try to pressurize it.

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What would be the best fin design? any ideas?
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I think we should all first discuss the general optimal strategy for approaching this event.

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Post by DarthBuilder »

I’ve done bottle rockets in middle school and I did fairly well. I got a soda bottle, put three fins on the bottle equally apart, and a ping pong ball on the tip after making a cone. I’ll see what I can come up with in the east few days on me free time. This is an event that I would want to do.
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Does anyone have the division C rules for indoor bottle rockets (2017 for Nats)? Thanks.
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Does anyone think this will ever become an event? I'm going to high school in a few years, and I'm excited to have the possibility to do bottle rocket again (I did it for 3 years straight already).
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