Links

A collection of useful links to organizations, manufacturers & vendors, how-to articles, online tools and educational resources. Please report dead links or suggest additions to Danno.

Organizations: Albuquerque Rocket Society Central Illinois Aerospace (CIA) East Anglian Rocketry Society (EARS) Four Corners Rocketry Association KLOUDBusters Michiana Rocketry National Association of Rocketry (NAR) Quad Cities Rocket Club (QCRC, formerly QCRS) St. Louis Rocketry Association (SLRA) Tripoli Houston Tripoli Mo-Kan Tripoli Rocketry Association (TRA) Tripoli Vegas Wisconsin Organization of Spacemodeling Hobbyists (WOOSH)	How-to, Online Tools & Reference: 808 keychain camera reference Altimeter port sizing reference at Vern's Rocketry Atmospheric Properties Calculator Base drag modeling (Simulating short, wide rockets - Apogee Newsletter) Base drag modeling, part 2 Base drag modeling, part 3 Battery University Dashware tutorial (Bill's Rockets) Ejection charge black powder calculator (insanerocketry.com) Ejection charge black powder calculator (rockethead.net) John Coker's Rockets and Rocketry Mach number calculator (NASA) Machine screw size chart NFPA 1122 (Code for Model Rocketry) NFPA 1125 (Code for the Manufacture of Model Rocket and High Power Rocket Motors) NFPA 1127 (Code for High Power Rocketry) NOAA Aviation Weather Center Shear pin calculations (rocketmaterials.org, archived) Shear pin calculations (feretich.com) SkyVector aeronautical charts ThrustCurve	Educational Resources: Challenger Learning Center (National) Challenger Learning Center St. Louis NASA Television National Science Teaching Assocation (NSTA)
Kit & Component Manufacturers & Vendors: Additive Aerospace Aerocon Systems Aero Pack Aerospace Specialty Products (ASP) Always Ready Rocketry AMW Pro-X (Animal Motor Works) Apogee Components Atteberry Performance Engineering Balsa Machining Service Binder Design Rocketry Boyce Aerospace Hobbies Composite Warehouse Custom Rocket Company Dynasoar Rocketry eRockets Estes FlisKits Galactic Manufacturing Giant Leap Rocketry Hawk Mountain Enterprises Inverted Pursuits J&H Aerospace JonRocket LOC Precision MAC Performance Rocketry Madcow Rocketry North Coast Rocketry Pemberton Technologies Performance Hobbies Public Missiles, Ltd. Red River Rocketry Rocket Junkies Sirius Rocketry Squirrel Works Wildman Rocketry	Motor Manufacturers & Vendors: AeroTech Consumer Aerospace BuyRocketMotors.com Cesaroni Technology, Inc. Eclipse Rocketry (UK - micro hybrid motors) Loki Research Micro Nitro Rocketry (micro hybrid motors)	Flight Electronics & Accessories Manufacturers & Vendors: Altus Metrum BigRedBee Featherweight Altimeters Jolly Logic Lab Rat Rocketry MissileWorks Mobius ActionCam Rockit Flight Computer (Dan in Finland) RunCam
Recovery Manufacturers & Vendors: B2 Rocketry (SkyAngle parachutes) Front Range Rocket Recovery Fruity Chutes OneBadHawk RocketMan Spherachutes Top Flight Recovery	Software: BurnSim DashWare Google Earth Convert tabular lat/long data to Google Earth (online tool) Kerbal Space Program OpenRocket OpenRocket plugin to import CD vs. velocity data from RASAero RaceRender RASAero	Miscellaneous Manufacturers & Vendors: 80/20 Inc. (launch rails) Accur8 Spacemodels (vinyl wraps for rocket kits) Adafruit Industries (electronics) AllElectronics BJAAM Performance Rocketry (RocketSok, motor case cleaners & protectors) DigiKey Electronics Evan Designs (LEDs) Frankum Performance Rocketry Products (launch pads, carbon fiber, starters) HamCity (radio gear) Macklin Missile Works (guillotine fin jigs) McMaster-Carr (hardware) Pratt Hobbies QuickBurst (igniter dipping mixes) StickerShock US Composites