Posted: 4/14/2006 9:06:01 AM EDT
So as I'm going through my stuff I came across these rocket engines. Since 9-11 these have been banned for sale around here. I figure some terrorists may be able to use them as spare RPGs or something. Surely they are too dangerous for any American to have. So how does one sell things on the terrorist black market. Is there a website or something? 
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That sucks! If I didn't have my rockets I would be hella pissed. I am working on a new model which will have total impulse of about 1048 newtons whitch is a mediul J motor. She should haul ass!! |
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After 9/11 they banned motors over a certain size. http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2003-02-28/features/body.html THE CHANGE IN STATUS, approved in November 2002 as an update to the Safe Explosives Act of 1970, imposes new restrictions on shipping and handling the rocket motors, which have been safely flown by thousands of students for many years. Under the new rules, which fully take effect May 24, shipping companies are required to have every employee who might touch the rocket motors be certified, pass background checks and get fingerprinted -- an added expense the companies are unlikely to bear. United Parcel Service already has stopped shipping the more powerful versions of model rocket engines, according to Tim Van Milligan, president of Apogee Rockets in Colorado Springs, Colo. There also are reports that some trucking and railroad firms have stopped shipping the motors, and Fed Ex employees have indicated to some model rocket flyers they likely will follow suit in the coming weeks. "It is the heart of the problem we face. Because if manufacturers like Estes can't get rocket motors delivered to stores, the hobby is completely dead," Van Milligan said. U.S. Senator Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., intends to introduce legislation as early as this week to make what's being called a "technical correction" to the Safe Explosives Act so that the material used inside the small motors is removed from the "explosives list." |
Uh Oh!! I'm sticking my head in the sand on that one. 
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| A couple buddies and I went to this hobby shop and bought 30 C -whatever rockets. We wanted D's but the guy said they weren't available. We then attached them all to this boat we made for a shop project. That thing went so damn fast we couldn't get it on camera. We then went and bought some more and just ignited them by themselves out out of this little bazooka thing we made out of PVC. It was awesome. |
Rocket motors are evil! You can use those to hurt million of people with nuclear weapons. How can you own these weapons of mass destruction? I don’t feel safe knowing that you have these rocket engines! We need to ban bottle rockets also for the same reason.  Next we will be wondering why China has all the rocket scientists. |
