My Rockets

Rockets arranged in chronological order from the newest

Ascender-1

    This rocket is designed to be long and thin and to be assembled with a large capacity. Its modular to be compact during storage and if a splice or coupling fails only one section has to be replaced instead of the whole rocket.
    Capacity:              7.7L
    Length:                156cm
    Nozzle                 ID: 22mm
    Recovery             System: ADTRS

Tennis Ball Launching Rocket

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    This rocket is designed to propel a Tennis Ball before dropping away leaving the ball to continue to a high altitude.
    Capacity: 1.25L
    Nozzle ID: 22mm
    Recovery System: Tumble
    Payload: Tennis ball

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    This rocket consists of a bottle with a cone designed to hold a Tennis Ball. The nose cone contains a cylinder designed to stop small and irregular shaped objects from getting stuck inside the nose cone during flight.
    An all PET construction.
    22mm nozzle for high momentum transfer into the Tennis Ball.
    I used Cone Layout to accurately make the nose cone.

Vortex Rocket

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    The Vortex Rocket is designed to be a simple and fun rocket. This rocket can be hand launched for another person to catch from over 100m away.
It's very stable because of it's circular fin and is well padded.
    Capacity:                  0.3L
    Nozzle ID:                22mm
    Length:                    300mm
    Weight:                     52g
    Recovery System:    Lawndart

Nerf Vortex Ball

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    This is the ball I used to make the nose of my rocket from. The ball is padded so it is safe to catch and the yellow howlors whistle as the ball flies.

Venturi-1b

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    This rocket was designed as a heavy lift rocket and tested a 32mm nozzel.
    Capacity: 1.75L
    Nozzle ID: 32mm
    Length: 630mm
    Recovery System: ADTRS

Venturi-2b

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    The Venturi-2b was designed to test a Timer Recovery System. Because of frequent failures with previous Recovery Systems, I wanted a more reliable system. It was designed with the ability to add an Experimental Module and recover the results safily. Though it was designed for experimentation, it later became my main Recovery system. 
    Because the system was fragile, it would often break and become unreliable. So a simplified version was made which was strengthened to the point where it was able survive a crash.
    Capacity: 2L
    Nozzle ID: 22mm
    Recovery System: ADTRS

Modular Design

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    The Venturi-2's modular design enabled different Recovery Systems and Experimental Modules to be attached easily. It also made it easy to fix and replace a recovery module.

Recover Test 12

    The flight of my Acceleration deployed Tomy Timer Recovery system with a payload testing an idea for a Gravity Deployment System. Annoyingly all results were lost. :(

Venturi-2a (later version)

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    This rocket was testing a more advanced version of the Gravity Deployed Recovery System. 
    A better designed version of this recovery system will be tested soon.
    Capacity: 2L
    Nozzle ID: 22mm
    Recovery System: Gravity Deployed Recovery System 

Venturi-2a (earliest version)

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    This rocket was testing a gravity switch which was meant to release the parachute once the rocket turned over and began its decent. The issue with the system was that the rocket was very light and would decelerate very quickly after take-off. This Negative G Stage of Flight would then trigger the switch, deploying the parachute too early.
    This system is known to work for slower rockets as there deceleration is more subtle.
    Capacity: 2.25L
    Nozzle ID: 22mm
    Recovery System: Gravity Deployed Recovery System