What is the fire danger of an Estes rocket?

[Byte Stryke]

Hey Irving you live in Pueblo right? There's a model rocket club here, they meet out on the Beulah Highway, about 10 minutes south of the "South Walmart" at a place called Hudson Ranch. I'm ostensibly a member, but I haven't made a time yet this year to get out there. There was some talk of part of that facility being turned into a 1000m shooting range.

A lot of nice folks, there website is http://www.scronline.net/

For like $3 you can launch rockets all day, use their stands/launchers, and get to talk to people about it, plus see a few larger diameter rockets. In late August they have a large event with quite a few "pretty darn big" rockets. They have a ATV with a water tank and sprayers when there is a risk of fire.

H.

Location Fail

Location: Westminster

more north denver

[Hoosier]

Location Fail

more north denver

Oh shit, I thought he lived down south.

I have learned more about Colorado community names/locations from looking up town names in the For Sale section than any other reason in my four years out here. It's all the suburbs and exurbs of Denver that kill me.

H.

[sniper7]

I used to launch them all the time on my dads property, never had any problems. just go do it and have fun.

[Byte Stryke]

Oh shit, I thought he lived down south.

I have learned more about Colorado community names/locations from looking up town names in the For Sale section than any other reason in my four years out here. It's all the suburbs and exurbs of Denver that kill me.

H.

I completely understand.

and the crazy part is that there are so many "incorporated" areas...
ie:
Eastlake was a township consumed by Thornton
Derby is now part of Commerce city...

People wonder why I just say "Denver" when asked where I'm from.


I Suck at giving geography lessons.

[Irving]

Irv, we have a whole pile of rockets and engines here at the house. I have been too paranoid to launch them. If I was at a city park with green grass, I wouldnt worry. But, out here I worry.

I put a nice hole in the Federal center post office roof with a multiple stage rocket once. oops.

I'm glad that you said something, because I was planning on doing it up by your place. I not really prepared to be responsible for burning down the Pawnee Grass lands. Maybe I'll do it in the winter.

I used to launch them all the time on my dads property, never had any problems. just go do it and have fun.

See above. Like others have said, I was mostly concerned with the landing point and not getting there fast enough.


Thanks for the input everyone.

[Byte Stryke]

Yeah, I remember burning a huge vacant lot in Mission Veijo in Aurora when I was a Kid and the city didn't smell like pee.


But damn that rocket went!

[Hoosier]

Hey, this saturday they are going to be launching the largest private rocket to lift off in Colorado. It's assembled by some college kids from Centennial with the help of a few aerospace companies. It's set to deploy four experiments (no, it's not achieving orbit)

If anyone is interested, let me know and I can give you directions. "Located 1 hr and 50 minutes from C-470 and I-25 if you drive the speed limit, much of which is 75 mph." Down just south of Pueblo.

H.

[Irving]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm working on my truck and then working this Saturday. Take video.

[sniper7]

this week had a cool ATIS broadcast while flying.

weather ballon 20 miles east of atlanta airport at 90,000 feet! I've never seen that before.

[Byte Stryke]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm working on my truck and then working this Saturday. Take video.

very cool Bro.
Did you trade that silver thing for it?