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Post by Rich Fisher on Apr 26, 2009 0:34:59 GMT -4
(Queen Anne's County, MD) -- The world's largest amateur rocket will be launched today. The Guinness Book of World Records will be there and the air space has been cleared. Steve Eves built the rocket and will be launching it from the Eastern Shore. The rocket is a one-tenth scale of a Saturn Five rocket. It is 36-feet tall, weighs 16-hundred pounds, has eight solid rocket motors in it and took two years to build at a cost of 30-thousand dollars. Eves built the rocket in his workshop in Akron, Ohio and trucked it over to Maryland to launch it. Lift off is at noon today at a small farm near the town of Prince in Queen Anne's County.
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Post by mcbeth on Apr 26, 2009 22:53:51 GMT -4
Any word on how it went?
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Post by moosie on Apr 27, 2009 6:13:47 GMT -4
wonder why they didn't go down to wallops, where there is a facility for such things.
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Post by bluecrabber on Apr 27, 2009 7:06:47 GMT -4
Launch appears to have been a success. I watched some online video. I would have liked to go watch, but was busy fishing... Should have went and watched the rocket... the fishing trip was mostly a boat ride! I learned just within the last several days there is a lot of interest in model rocketing. It appears the Higgs farm near Price is a launching area for model rockets. check out the web site: www.mdrocketry.org/Best regards, BC
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