I took up building rockets at a relatively young age.  After about three months, I had an extremely efficient production line of model rockets with very little assistance.  Rockets are very easy to build, though they do require some expensive accessories. Later I found out that rockets really don't have to be propelled by expensive black powder store bought engines.  Simple things such as air and water do the same job if not better.  This site involves lots of very safe projects (in other words, no dangerous explosives are used for the propellant).

If you are new to the hobby of home-made rocketry, read this page for information on basic structure and parts and how they function in the model rocket.  This page is only partially completed so you can  hope to see completed in the near future.

Water is one of the safest forms of model rocket propellant.  But what can water do?  When combined with compressed air, the escaping gas pushes against the water which is falling towards earth from the rocket to give a surprising boost upward.  These are not he types of rockets the scream hundreds of feet upward into the atmosphere to again come parachuting down.  Some of my best shots have sent a small 20 oz. bottle onto the a 2 story high roof top.

• 20 oz. Rocket

• 2 Liter Rocket

These rockets shown above use air in conjunction with water as the propellant.  These rockets listed below use air alone to propel themselves.  These rockets have a slightly high altitude than the water powered rockets.  The PVC dart is an exception.  This wonderful little device has attained huge altitudes having been fired form one of my weaker spud guns.  The Mark II dart was never actually evaluated for altitude simply because I shot the thing almost straight up the first time, and it landed far far away in some alien location.  However, minimum, it must have flown atleast 300-400 ft upward.

• PVC Dart

• PVC Dart Mark II