I’ve been getting into it with my children. The basic Estes brand stuff from Hobby Lobby was surprisingly cheap. I expected this hobby to be much more expensive. We had our first launch at the park on Saturday and had a blast. Since then we’ve built another and we are planning to go to a local rocket club launch event next weekend.
>>17088083You should show them Kerbal Space Program if you haven't already.
>>17088083yeah, i did estes rockets as a kid. For xmas last year my dad bought all the kids/grandkids rockets (he got the science teacher pack and split it up) and we all built them over the winter then had a big launch party in the summer. 10/10 was a lot of fun.If you're interested in rocketry, BPS Space has entertaining content on more advanced model rocketry (vertical landing with estes rockets, sending rockets to space etc)>>17088142KSP is excellent but fairly hard. A more approachable rocket sim is SimpleRockets (which is like a simpler, 2D KSP). It's good because it still shows rocket stuff like apoapsis, staging, etc, but the barrier to entry is much lower. It was originally an iOS/Android game but its also on Steam for PC. Now that we've done rockets, I think my next step (when I have time!) is going to be RC planes with my kids. The tech is SO much better/cheaper than it was when I was a kid. So its not a big deal to have the planes crash. I think good intro stuff is flitetest or peter sripol.
>>17088083This is awesome dude; I have a kid on the way and when he turns 5 or 6 I think rocketry would be a great hobby for us to do together. If you can point me to how to get involved in the hobby or the community I would appreciate it
>>17088083>>>/toy/
>>17088083>Is anyone here into Rocketry?too expensive bruh
>>17088083i was in high school. its more fun if you put a camera in it.
>>17088404this. and learning to target things launching at a forty degree angle with the little ones. Pretty exciting when all the solid fuel hits a wall at high speed
>>17088083I was into it as a kid in the 80s.>>17088404I tried the Estes camroc back them. It was a 110 film camera built into a nose cone. Are there any oldfags here who got one of those things to work in flight?
Is this allowed in public spaces? I don't want someone to call police on me.
>>17089173>sir, please keep your rocket in your pants.
