Doug Gerrard

Hi All, Its been a while since I've attended a NCR launch so I'm planning on packing up the trailer and heading North to visit old friends and launch a few rockets for Oktoberfest, if the weather hold...

how much real difference is there in the final product if you go from say 10" to 20" of vacuum? Not that much. As you pointed out normally I draw as much vacuum as I can. However, there have been ca...

Doug, Most excellant to read you're planning on attending MHM. Not to hijack this thead but I'm pretty sure Ed and I would like to loft the Saturn V again from your awesome pad. Joe, I sent you a pm t...

I'm pretty sure Ed and I would like to loft the Saturn V again from your awesome pad. I don't know, the pad will likely have be too far away from the flight line like last time. Doug

Steve and all, I plan on attending MHM with my complete launch pad set up that I am upgrading to all digital video cameras. I plan on having over a dozen cameras on the launch pad and surrounding mou...

Nobody spends hundred or thousands of dollars building a highly technical rocket unless they are trying to set some type of record! Sorry to disagree with you but this statement is completely wrong a...

It worked great until I got into vacuum bagging and the whole rotisserie idea went out the window. It wasn't possible to build a vacuum-tight oven box and there was no way to deal with the twisting of...

We used to re-work refrigerators and change the thermostats, add a heating element, and we then had an oven for baking speaking of using a old refrigerator as an oven, there are many used refrigerato...

Bad thing is it needs to be cured in an oven.Any body have an oven 6 feet long? I do but it does requires assembly. It is regulated to 210F and has internal fans for forced air heating. The heated c...

By the way, I use the PartAll for all kinds of things. Even when I'm gluing in a t-nut to the inside of an airframe, I add this to the screw that holds in in place just in case some epoxy gets on the...

I wouldn't trust my nest egg to Vaseline. I would splurge the $17 and buy some High Temperature Partall. Even the low temp stuff is only $13. I've been using the same tin for nearly a decade and st...

Now all is needed is a simple solid state guidance system. I've got one, at least an anti-roll system that I've been working on for quite some time. I've still ground testing but it looks very robust...

I found a 1/4" piece 24" X 48" online for $160. A little more for balsa core. I didn't see 1/2" thick but that is where I bought mine from. Doug

It looks like NCR won't be the first to host an Upscale Contest. There was one at NSL in 2009. I have not been able to find any official rules, the official web site is no longer.

Since the pictures were taken, I have moved to masking tape instead of the electrical tape. I'm more lazy than environmental and cutting all those little pieces of tape was too much work. I got an a...