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 ...

Long before model rockets became Randy Boadway’s business, it was his hobby. Now Boadway shares that hobby with hundreds of beginners every year, both through his company, eRockets, and through the ...

Occasional GeekDad contributor Francesco Fondi (perhaps the only Italian hobby enthusiast in Japan) has sent along part of a piece he just wrote up on his own blog, about some cool old model rocket ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Amateur rocketry is getting a closer look from federal regulators as technological advances boost the most sophisticated amateur rockets higher into the air ...

Model rocketry is a hobby similar to building model airplanes. In the hobby today, there are two distinct areas of rocket activity: amateur (or experimental) rocketry, and model rocketry (including ...

Launching a model rocket used to be much easier than this. The older hobbyists gathered for a launch at Moffett Field near Mountain View on a recent Saturday morning recall a time when rockets filled ...

PENROSE -- Estes Industries, the largest model rocket builder in the world, hopes to soar to new heights after the 60-year-old Penrose company recently was purchased by a family with a rich history in ...

Skies were patchy with clouds and rain Saturday over a grassy field at Little Big Econ State Forest where two launch pads were ready to fire off a fleet of model rockets. Three-year-old Nico Garces of ...

Dear Johnnie: A few years back my son was given a ticket for launching a small Estes model rocket from a concrete pad in a Longmont park. Fire danger was the reason given. I didn’t know that concrete ...

Model rocketry is an amusing hobby! Model rocket launcher circuit presented here is carefully designed to avoid accidental ignition, and is capable of delivering battery power to the igniter in an ...