HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Simple experiments 

• Unstable flight of a plastic bottle

• Stable flight of a plastic bottle 

• Directional stability of jet impulse

• Variable orientation expansion nozzle

Finding the center of mass

• Unstable suspended bottle

• Stablised suspended rocket

• Mass and aerodynamic drag centers

Determination of nose cone separation

• Determination of nose cone separation

• Special capsule module

• Special mission payload

• Release pressure control

Variable nose mass

Launching systems

• Pressure plug release 

• Guillotine, flange lock release

• Launch tube release 

• Remote launch system 

• Launch site selection and preparation

• Supply services to the launch site

• Recording launches

• Future projects 

Creating an efficient jet

• Nozzle design

•  Launch water spike

•  Expansion phases

•  Expansion nozzle

•  Variable angle expansion nozzle

 The Research Page

Rocket performance parameters

• Aerodynamic Drag Force

• Tables

• Water rocket parameters excel 

• Jet Thrust Force.

• Propulsion Force

• Tsiolkovski Mass Factor.

• Specific Impulse

• Electro-static charge

• Good nose capsule design

• Recovery systems

• "Pogo" effect

• Pressure volume curves for Badoit1L and Coke2L 2004

• Pressure curve analysis 2005

• Analysis of  results 2003

• Some useful formula

• Rocket flight data log

• How high does it go

PET Bottle explosion standard.

• Remote pressure test .

• Test stand capable of controlling high test pressures .

• Test videos. 

• Health and safety standards.

Aerodynamics     

• An introduction to boundary layer fluid flow.

• Reynould's number.

• Mach number.

• Knudsen number.

Parachute

• Static electricity control

• Parachute packing

• Parachute material memory comparison

• Cord attachment

The real thing courtesy esa

• Ariane launches

• Ariane launch program

• Satellite images