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Firefighters in Smyrna tackled a blaze where they found a resident's stock of rocket fuel, complicating their efforts.
Firefighters say the situation at the Smyrna home was made more difficult because of the homeowner's rocket-building hobby, ...
The fire happened at a home on Debra Drive in Smyrna just around 1 a.m. Thursday. When crews arrived, they found large flames shooting from the roof. According to fire investigators, the blaze started ...
The Del Boy favourite says building mini rockets keeps him young after getting model making during Covid when presented with an immense amount of free time during lockdown ...
A longtime Boy Scout leader was killed in an accident over the weekend when a hobby rocket came down and struck him in the face.On Saturday, 50-year-old Michael Bentley of Highland was with scouts ...
The hobby of model rocketry as we know it today was pretty much invented by G. Harry Stine and Vernon Estes. Stine (1928-1997) was a science writer (who also wrote science fiction under the name ...
When they burn space shuttle fuel, hit speeds of mach 2 and climb to 15,000 ft., do you still call them model rockets? Welcome to the world of extreme hobbies.
Nowaczyk's rocket is a monster by hobby standards—17 feet long and 375 pounds. It looks like a big white cigarette with a silver needle nose on one end, three badass fins on the other, ...
WASHINGTON - Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi's effort to exempt hobby rocketeers from the homeland security law is under fire from two Democratic senators from the states most affected by the ...
TITUSVILLE — It was supposed to target terrorism, not toy rockets. But enthusiasts who build and launch model rockets say a provision in the Homeland Security Act threatens to ground a hobby ...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans fly model rockets, but the hobby is being threatened by increased federal regulation. View Slideshow On a recent weekend, Erik Ebert traveled to Nevada's remote ...