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Rec-models-rockets-archive-name: rockets-faq/part03 Posting-Frequency: weekly Last-modified: 2002 May 29 URL: http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/rockets/rmrfaq.toc.html See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Rec.Models.Rockets Frequently Asked Questions: PART 3 OF 14 ROCKETRY ON THE INTERNET 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/~sven/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/~sven/rockets/rmrfaq.toc.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. --------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1996-2002 Wolfram von Kiparski, editor. Refer to Part 00 for the full copyright notice. for the full copyright notice. User Contributions:
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