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decaff_42
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I used to make water rockets in middle school before graduating to model rockets and the TARC competition in High School. Now that I'm out of collage, I want to get back into water rocketry from a scientific approach. I would like to develop a very accurate simulator some day. My goal is to create a thrust test stand, and pressure, temperature, altitude, and accelerometer flight data recorder to help with this.

I stumbled upon this community in the past, but decided to join now that I am beginning to look into things a bit more seriously.

-Decaff
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Welcome to the world's largest community dedicated to water rocketry. :W

Those are some really ambitious plans. We look forward to your sharing your progress and results.
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Welcome Decaff!! Can't wait to see what you come up with!!
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welcome and welcome to the forum im beginingrocket my name says how new I am but I been on water rockets for over an year I just developed a parachute system kinda like raketfued but the tommy timer has a air flap deploy
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Welcome comrade! I do wish you good luck in your endeavors, and please do keep us updated on your progress
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:W to the forum Decaff, it's always good to see new people joining.
Your goal seems very interesting and ambitious, I'm looking forward to hear more about it.
Julian from Team Raketfued
beginingrocket wrote:welcome and welcome to the forum im beginingrocket my name says how new I am but I been on water rockets for over an year I just developed a parachute system kinda like raketfued but the tommy timer has a air flap deploy
Nice to hear that, are you happy with the reliability of it?
We used air flaps too, but they often activated the system accidentally, especially by setting up large rockets on the launch pad.
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:W on the forum
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Welcome