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HPI Racing (formerly Hobby Products International) – 1:43 & 1:18 scale diecast. Often Japanese vehicles, owned by Ripmax. [39] Hubley Manufacturing Company – American producer of metal kits, diecast cars, and plastic kits and promotional models. Husky Toys – Corgi's smaller line that competed with Matchbox. Name brought back in the 2000s ...
Amateur rocketry was an especially popular hobby in the late 1950s and early 1960s following the launch of Sputnik, as described in Homer Hickam's 1998 memoir Rocket Boys. One of the first organizations set up in the US to engage in amateur rocketry was the Pacific Rocket Society established in California in the early 1950s.
Model rocketry is a safe and widespread hobby. Individuals such as G. Harry Stine and Vernon Estes helped to ensure this by developing and publishing the NAR Model Rocket Safety Codes [1] [13] [14] and by commercially producing safe, professionally designed and manufactured model rocket motors.
It supports all aspects of safe consumer sport rocket flying, from small model rockets with youth groups to very large high-power rockets flown by adult hobbyists. [4] The NAR is a recognized national authority for performance and reliability certification of consumer rocket motors and for the certification of high-power rocket fliers in the U.S.
Another subtype of hobby shop is the computer store, which sells computers, software, services, and training.Computer hobby shops have traditionally sold computers, related network equipment, and services, more often than not, they are selling training in software like Adobe PhotoShop, Autodesk 3ds, web design and other creative software pursuits.
Imperial Hobby Productions (USA) Intech (Poland) Interavia (Ukraine) IOM-kit (Ukraine) - brand of Avis; IPMS Austria (Austria) Italaerei (Italy) - renamed to Italeri; Italeri (Italy) Jach (Czech Republic) JAYS Hobby Products (New Zealand) - Online Store Based in The Catlins, NZ. EST.2008 [13] JAYS Model Kits (New Zealand) - sold through JAYS ...
The largest vendors of high-power rocket motors in the world are Cesaroni Technology Inc. and RCS Rocket Motor Components, Inc. The very first model rocket motor certified was by Model Missiles Inc. (Orville Carslile). Circa 1958. The very first high-power rocket motor certified was by U.S. Rockets (Jerry Irvine). Circa 1985.
(c) Class 3—Advanced High-Power Rocket means an amateur rocket other than a model rocket or high-power rocket". Tripoli Rocketry Association maintains a Class 3 review committee [ 10 ] who voluntarily (not required by the FAA) review rockets with altitudes expecting to reach or exceed 50,000 feet and as a pre-check for rocket projects that ...