Doug Gerrard

Well I'm not sure there is going to be an Upscale Contest. I haven't heard about any progress being made and its only a month until Oktoberfest. Its too bad. I think it would be a very nice contest...

drew things up in either Solidworks or Pro/Engineer and had the software figure out the intersection shapes and possibly even make cutting templates or exported it to an NC tooling package like Master...

BTW, this project is called Double Feature named by John Wilke. Here is looking up the old wazoo. There are spars that run from the center motor mount tube to the outboards. A shot of the motor mount...

a.) how did you discern the pattern for cutting the tapered holes into the bigger tube? I assume this mathmatically derived... I'm just curious how you even begin to derive the pattern for where to ma...

It look's like a slight canter to the outboards. Is that the case or just the angle of the photo? Are you going to light them all off at once? Yes the outboards are angled at just over 3 degrees so I ...

Here is a new project I'm working on, a 54 mm surrounded by eight 38 mm motors in a 6 inch body tube. Doug

Scott, or anyone considering a large project, if you are seriously thinking about wanting to fly off of my pad and have me film it, please don't wait until OF to ask about it. I do a lot of preparati...

How about 2 Motors, or 6 Motors, or 10 Motors, or maybe just more than 1 Sure, but I do use the rule of thumb that you should spend as much burning propellant as I do shooting the film. Doug

I know there are worthy projects out there but they all seem to by flying on experimental motors and not commercial motors. However, if you have a big, impressive rocket flying on Saturday, let me kn...

I'd suggest a few warm up flights/tests before Odyssey flies so you're sure that everything is working but you've probably already figured that out. Yea, I really miss Justin. He did an excellent jo...

Hi Joe, I just thought I would post to let you know how the film turned out. Overall I was very please with the footage. That is not to say there wasn't problems. Most of the ground footage is good...

James, I thought that survey was generated for last years LDRS in Las Vegas. I don't think it has much meaning. Perhaps you'll get more accurate responses here. Doug

I prefer keeping everything quite as well. I guess I that is especially true if I was doing the same rocket as someone else. I don't object to doing the same kit as another contestant but I would pr...

I too like the gag rule partially because of the excitement of finding out about them all at once but also as I mentioned to try to keep the judges of hearing about one project more than the others. ...

I thought of another idea, not that I'm trying to be difficult, about how to "take care of" the singles vs. teams issue. If there were sufficient enough entrants to have two divisions it would be fai...