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		xur17 on Nov 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falcon Heavy Model – Flight 1 [video] https://bps.space/ has some additional details, including the flight computer that does thrust vectoring (on a model rocket!). This makes me want to build model rockets again..

app4soft on Nov 22, 2018 [–]

> This makes me want to build model rockets again..

If you need FOSS app for design & simulate model rockets -- use OpenRocket.[0,1,2]

There are many tutorials on YouTube.[3,4,5,6,7]

[0] http://openrocket.info

[1] https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket

[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCU8QRVkdYQ

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pp-mVTBd14

[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUaeJ7GV_WPTp26NIkg4rg

[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHbZUEr_Co

[7] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWSz41c1ic4pBmUIiZQsTQ

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