Check out Alex on the Aggression website

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www.aggressionkiteboarding.com

Alex is having a great time in Hatteras this summer, working for GS in the Aggression factory. Riding or surfing when the wind or swell hits. It should be a summer to remember. He'll be back in town around 8/9. Jordan is headed up there to help him drive back. I think they are stopping to visit Dave in Cape Fear.

Paul

Hell, yeah, that is a sweet photo! Looking good, Alex. Sorry I punk'd out and didn't make it to OBX after my house exploded.

[Eagle]

A summer to remember for sure. You can't buy a summer camp like that, kite, surf and boardbuilding. Makes my summer camp experience of model rocketery, space camp and archery look pretty lame.

Have a safe trip home and bring us some wind.

I was going to make fun of you for the model rocketry bit, Eagle, but then you mentioned archery, as well. My personal risk management program thus forbids me from talking sh*t.

[toby wilson]

Nice pic Alex! I can see how proud of you your Father is and we all are every bit as proud to be able to say "Hey, that guy on the Aggression website is one of our bros!!!" Keep up the good work Alex and we can't wait to see you back home in St. Pete!!!

[Eagle]

Originally Posted by E-Bone

I was going to make fun of you for the model rocketry bit, Eagle, but then you mentioned archery, as well. My personal risk management program thus forbids me from talking sh*t.

My archery skills pale in comparison to my Beowulf .50 cal skillz.
Rockets were and still are pretty cool. I used to build 2 and 3 stage rockets, complete with matchbox kockroach-pits attached to parachutes.
When I evolved into making homemade rpg's with the rocket engines, my rocketry days came to an abrupt halt via Pop's.

Model rockets rock. I have a home-made relay launcher right here I built for the big ones.. G-J... but I like chad staging C's (taping a booster stage motor to the bottom of a single stage) when I get bored...

Rocketry is pretty darn fun, but too expensive these days...

Water rocketry is pretty cool too. Built a two stage rocket out of 16 1 liter bottles, launched it from a PVC launcher with a bike pump, pumped to 120PSI. It went about 300 feet, dropped the stage, and continued to about 1200 feet, recovered by parachute.

Tried a 2nd launch and it exploded on the pad. Scared the crap out of me and the police officer watching me

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I packed it up for the day... soaking wet...

[BigR]

That is pretty amazing Tom, since the rules of rocketry state that you should maximize your propellent thrust to weight ratio and water is darn heavy for a propellent!

Anyways, never ever should one put any homemade nitroglycerin into the top stage of a multi-stage rocket ( in case it decides not to go vertical for some reason and instead hit the neighbors tree! )

[bryanleighty]

my best friend is a propulsion engineer..true rocket scientist.. works for a company in Seattle that works on space shuttles, missles, etc.. amazing stuff.

when he came out to Florida a month ago or so i took him over to the kennedy space center and he nearly passed out from excitement..

funny that when the folks were giving the tours, he would take over the conversaions with the guide and explain everthing in more detail..

his big thing is the stabilization thrusters on the front of the shuttles.. i guess those are his babies...

his wife has a very very big life insurance policy out on him.

BigR, 120lbs of thrust -vs- 5lbs of water