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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Model Rocketry
Message-ID: <14081@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Jan 89 21:05:34 GMT
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Since you can't legally build your own amateur engines, I'm wondering
about the other parts of the bird.  Is it okay to build your own housing
for a engine?  Can you do experiments with manuvering and guidance?

Let's say I build a rocket with an infrared quadrant detector linked
to movable surfaces.  If I use Estes engines and go somewhere legal for
conventional rockets, would I be breaking any laws if I launched a rocket,
and then shot it down with a second rocket (assume no explosive in warhead,
just kinetic energy)?

If I added rockets to a conventional R/C model airplane, for example to
assist takeoff, would that be considered a model rocket or what?