October 2022
HAVE A SAFE & HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
It's finally October! The mountains here, will soon be full of color and the leaves will begin to fall. At the end of this
month the little rocket monsters will be ringing your doorbell in search of candy for sugar motors and that signals the holidays
have started for 2022!
Now is the time to shop for your favorite rocketry fanatic(s) and the sooner the better. The traditional brick & mortar
stores like Michael's and Hobby Lobby, aren't carrying as many items or the amount of supplies they have in the past. If you
still have a local mom & pop hobby store, I'll bet they aren't stuffed to the rafters either.
I'm not saying skip the local shops, but you may need to supplement your shopping by searching online and with the way
shipping is these days, you better be ordering soon, if you want it by Christmas.
Have fun trick or treating and remember: tempus fugit! Otherwise, you may be left holding an empty bag.
Randy
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Above, you see a rare photo of Dave Miller, appropriately
dressed in black as owner of the clandestine black ops organization known as Sirius Rocketry! What does he do in his spare
time? He reads Rocket Babe, what else?
That's a nice looking Cestris Fighter he's holding too! Get yours from https://www.siriusrocketry.com
Verna Starr Cestris Fighter!
This is our favorite Sirius kit, the Cestris.
The kit is intended to fly on a single engine but it was easily modified to a 3 engine cluster complete with Verna Starr fighter
decals, also available from Sirius.
Randy
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She'll go with you anywhere! Kevin, owner and moderator at the Alien Soup sci-fi
forum, enjoys Rocket Babe - Dust Storm between innings at a recent ballgame!
Rocketry & Photography
Photo - Ben Jarvis
Can you ever have too many engines? We don't think so but, the real answer to that age old question, depends on two things;
how many engines can a given airframe accommodate, and the limits of your talent to cluster successfully.
Outstanding, clustered rockets, like the one you see above, provide awesome ground based opportunities for spectacular
photos, especially at night.
Photo - Ben Jarvis
But what about photos taken from the air with an onboard camera or a flight captured by a drone? The quality of inexpensive
cameras available today, almost make the rocket secondary, to the purpose of the flight.
Rocketry and photography have always gone hand in hand. Who doesn't love watching old NASA videos, especially of the early
launches of the late 50's and 60's? Those of us who were kids then grew up watching historic flights that soon appeared in
our classrooms as history lessons.
My all time favorite videos are the ones I made in the mid 80's. I have dozens of VHS video launches with my kids out
flying with me. Not even NASA can hold a candle to those.
So as a follow up to the first article this month, you might want to add a drone or strap on camera to your holiday wish
list. I can almost guarantee you won't be sorry, especially if you have kids or grand kids.
Randy
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