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Former world altitude record holder. Simple effective two-stage device,
Tomy-timed parachute release. Excel spreadsheet simulator.
The Water Rocket Book, a useful summary.
Home of the amazing Swing Arm Launcher!
Father of the "Clark Cable" cable-tie launcher.
Home of the patented BigFoot® launcher, perhaps the biggest
water rocket site of all.
Big site - Lots of useful info and a downloadable simulator.
They sell the (rather clunky) Science Olympiad launchers.
Creator of the air-speed flap.
Including the design of a classic (superceded) U-pin launcher.
Awesome high-speed launch videos!
The "Coney" revolutionary design for beginners.
Current world altitude record holder,
2003 SciOly National Event Director, major experimenter &
designer of effective deployment systems.
VDET - FTC rockets with Easter Egg nosecones
Early successful staging device - requires machining
Metal launcher with separate air and water fill, rotating lug release
(in French and English)
In Oregon
SciOly competitor in Massachusetts
Thermal water rocket using flash boiling
Links page only.
Scotland's Aquajets - a long history of water rocket science and competition
In the Netherlands, wooden molds for nosecones.
In Belgium
Nicely presented rocketry photo album
John Erickson.
Jon Mehlferber
Melbourne rocketeer (pyro and water) and radio amateur.
Amusing little animation about the real fate of the Mars Polar Lander.
The second "rocket mum", not active any more. Nice Clark Cable launcher pics.
Last link, 11_rocket.zip, contains Powerpoint presentations
Unknown author - CO2 rockets, slanted fins, videos
East Texas prototype swinging-weight and other parachute deployment
devices.
Tomy Timer pictures and other stuff
In Brazil
Flash photos at night - excellent result!
New T-nozzle method using a conical mandrel in hot PVC.
How do you get it in the bottle though?
Corvallis, Oregon. High-school competition run by OSU (university)
Dutch group - good WR math here
A design magazine with a preference for re-use over recycling.
In Brazil
Nice closeups of Dave Brunsting's Clark Cable launcher.
A single photo of a water rocket and launcher in the red
Australian soil.
Fun in Vancouver!
Inter Planetary Water Rocket Society.
Nice drawings of the Clark Cable launcher design.
Japanese site with quite a few multi-bottle water rocket videos.
A page for teachers by NASA
In Chinese(?)
In Sweden
Water rocket powered R/C glider
with search engine for 13 WR sites.
Launch into space using ocean water pressure?
WR videos of the NERDS
SciOly99 nationals pictures
Nice pictures of big rockets on the beach in WA,
and a cool Thunderbird rocket car.
Leeds University water rocket page.
Home of the (M)ini (S)kirt (W)ater (R)ocket.
In England.
A life-size dummy launched! A commercial showpiece.
Spanish schoolteacher and his class
In Kirkland, WA - family fun
YARSWR (Yet Another Rubber Stopper WR). Ignorant too.
Science Olympiad handbook preview
A Physical Science teacher.
Excellent description of how to make my early hose-connect launcher
In Scotland.
UK team using liquid nitrogen!
Aussie open-mouth launcher design, superceded
Aussie launcher using Moss parts.
Lots of good stuff, including serious math.
Slick launch pad, recovery system, light tube rocket.
Water rocket competition in the UK.
In French, about an event in Japan. Those Japanese are inspiringly
innovative!
Comprehensive introduction to water rocketry, mainly for science teachers
In Cairo (still?)
In Japanese, with mathematical analysis
Michael Powell. Super-clever sliding T-nozzle designs.
Korean PhD and plastics company executive who visited me!
8th grade science teacher.
Science Olympiad helper and mailing list personality.
Worth a visit. Suppliers for the 40,000 national competitors (in Japanese).
In Dutch only for now
Mostly in Thai
Commercial rocket toy with speed-flap parachute release
First from Sweden.
Commercial air-powered rocket launcher for sea rescue
Brazilian Clark Cable launcher with pictures (mostly Portugese).
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Group with electronic parachute release (in Sydney, Australia)
Ohio State University site.
Email trail discussing soda&vinegar rockets
Studying the physics of neurological development at Kyoto
Free educational software to simulate water rockets
Including water rockets... mostly in English.
Good links
to other Japanese sites though!
Where do you want your links list to go today?
in Sweden, with 300BAR bottles!
Good VDTT pictures
Rocket patent
Delta-wings, gliders, huge rockets and syringe activators for recovery.
In Italian, but with photos, equations, and a spreadsheet simulator
and CP calculator.
Scout and Science Fair stuff. 12V compressor with marine battery.
Simple pump-til-she-blows launcher design.
(in Japanese)
Rocket car.
Excellent rockets modelled after Bruce Berggren's.
In Puerto Rico, family project using Clark Cable design.
Also has some rocket calculator programs.
Japanese site
Horizontal chute deployment, altimeter, etc. Also here
Small commercial WR toy.
Also here
from Amazon
Streaming Video from Singapore
Metal cans at 300PSI! (and java sim)
Commercial "Air Burst"
air rocket toy
(Copyright - URL on request only)
Equations, spreadsheets etc.
From Uni of Texas at Austin.
Advanced mathematical treatment, pub Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
NASA site with theory for teachers
Sideways recovery analysed
Estes and other rocket plans (scanned)
Meteorological rocket (50 mile apogee)
model rocket altimeters
compressed air toy plane.
for stability calculation
Look for PUR-Leim 501, PL Premium replacement
MPEG and nice stills
A Kids Space Center
Water rocket glider, also this.
Commercial rocket and car toys
Mach 1 potato gun(!).
From Calculators Online Center.
Stability Simulation Program
22,000 horsepower, wow!
