If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the ...

A model rocket should be simple: point it upward, light the motor, and watch it climb. Project Air’s X-15 model rocket plane ...

The vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets that were altogether more precise in their flight, ...

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The Washington Youth Aerospace team, from left: Nikhil Sirivara, Daniel Tadesse, Mikhail Antipin, Bao-Ky Tran, Antoine Vigneron and Anay Mediwala, pose with the rocket supplies vendor who found the ...