Rocketry Links
Water Rocketry is a thriving hobby, as evidenced by the hundreds of websites devoted to the water rocketry experience, ranging from rocket club sites to online stores offering rocket kits. You can find most of the links shown below if you simply enter the search term "water rocket" into a web search engine.
Since WPI does not endorse any water rocket products, we do not include links to online stores. However, the search terms "water rocket" and "water rocket kit" will plunge you into the online world of commercially available water rockets. Feel free to use or modify a commercial rocket in the competition.
Links
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Wikipedia
See the altitude record of over 2000 feet! Also see Competitions and much, much more. - The Water Rocket Index
- The Water Rocket Annex
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The Water Rocket Garage
The folks at the "garage" report on the important safety issue of bottle burst. See this site for a test report finding that 2-liter soda bottles burst into small fragments around 150 psi. To ensure a safe competition, we limit contestants to 50 psi (pounds per square inch), roughly twice the pressure found in a car tire, but only one third of burst pressure. Further, we require all team personnel involved with launch to wear safety goggles.
Last modified: March 14, 2008 10:32:21