water rocket
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What kind of air pump are you useing? You do know you have to fill it half way with water and then put plenty of air pressure in then cut it loose. Experment with one, do a simulation, see what happens.
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Just cut out pieces of card board for the fins and use poster board wrapped up like a ice creame cone for the nose cone. Tape some medium sized rocks to the insided of the nose cone for weight and tape every thing on. Mine went way high but i was use 110psi of air.
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Have a good and pointed nose cone, and some stablizeing fins, you mite get lucky. Some people build them out of PVC pipe. Go to www.skyhighrockets.com look around in that forum, i think there is a thread there on water rockets.
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For a water rocket one of the main factors is drag, so if you make a pretty areodynamic rocket it should do well.
300 feet isn't that high for a water rocket, for a 2 liter pop bottle it is but if you link a few together you can then get some distance.
Cannon Freak,
300 feet isn't that high for a water rocket, for a 2 liter pop bottle it is but if you link a few together you can then get some distance.
Cannon Freak,