For a few years now I have been building water rockets out of soft-drink bottles. For their simplicity these perform remarkably well. These pages detail my rocket setup.

There is also a lot of other information on the internet - just do a search for 'water rockets'. 

Here are a couple of my favorite sites:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2oRocketindex.htm 

http://www.aircommandrockets.com

 


Rocket Construction

Parachute Deployment

Launchers

Version 1 - the original

Version 2 - 'Launcher in-a-box'

Version 3 - 'Quick-Fill Launcher'

Extras

Launch Photos and Videos

For more of my projects, go to clayton.isnotcrazy.com