Rockets

Model Rocketry

About the WAEC
Between 1999 and 2004, I built and flew 23 original rocket designs.


Name: Date of first flight: Flights: Description:
Space Racer August 22, 1999 3 First custom-build.
SAM-66 November 21, 1999 10
First two-stager.

Sunbird II November 21, 1999 2 Boost glider.
Pi December 12, 1999 2 First clustered-engine design.
Sprint February 13, 2000 4 High-performance design.
Leviathan August 8, 2000 3 First D-powered rocket.
Space Racer II August 23, 2000 4
Replacement for Space Racer.
Arcturus Mk. 1 December 31, 2000 1 "Passive sounding rocket" prototype.

Roswell or Bust! April 29, 2001 5 Flying saucer.
Brinley November 29, 2001 4 First "Micro-Maxx" design.
(no photo)
Short-March January 27, 2002 1 "Micro-Maxx" scale-like rocket

Discovery February 17, 2002 2 Imitation of Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

XW-1 April 7, 2002 2
Imitation of Bell X-1.
Apollo-LES April 7, 2002 1 Scale model of first Apollo Pad-Abort test, November 7, 1963.
(no photo)
Sprint II May 8, 2002 3 High-performance replacement for Sprint.
Lone Star May 28, 2003
4
Built for the "Triumvirite".
Mercury-Redstone
December 22, 2002
2
Flying conversion of a paper model from Delta 7 Studios.
Shenzhou
June 25, 2003
1
Scale model of Chinese manned space launcher.
Saturn 1B
August 5, 2003
1
Plastic model conversion (WAEC Objective #5).
Saturn V
June 15, 2004
1
Flying conversion of a paper model (WAEC Objective #1).

Gemini-Titan II
June 15, 2004
1
Flying conversion of a paper model (WAEC Objective #2).
Juno 1
June 15, 2004
2
Scale model of first American satellite launcher.
Chrysler Building
July 1, 2003
1
Flying scale model of famous New York skyscraper (WAEC Objective #3).

More information

WAEC Inventory

Fleet Photos


All materials herein copyright 1998-2008 by Willy Logan
willy@wilhelm-aerospace.org