Welcome to Billy's Water Rocket Site

If you need help with a water rocket for science, or you just want to make a rocket for your own enjoyment,

then you have come to the right place.

This is the book that got me started making water rockets. You might be able to find it in a book store.

The story below is the story of my life and how I became interested in this hobby.

If you do not wish to read about my life, and just want to make a great water rocket 

    When I was about eight or nine my mom had gotten me a book at a garage sale for my birthday.  Well it turns out that this was the start of a new hobby for me.

    On one Saturday I sat down on the floor in my bedroom and opened my book just to look at it because on the front there was a rocket and I liked rockets.  So anyway I opened the book and I saw a lot of different projects and directions of how to make them.  The book was called, Make it Work Machines; there is a Picture of it at the top of the page.  The book wasn't very big at all; it only had 36 pages in it, not counting the back credits.  The book was wonderful and it had lots to do.  I flipped through the pages and stopped on page twenty-six.  There was the rocket that was on the front cover of the book.  I looked at the rocket on the page and studied every bit of it.  Then, I got the crazy idea to make one.

    That afternoon I had made my very first rocket, I have to admit it looked really bad.  I remember that I had just finished taping the fins on when my mom walked in and just stared at me and said, "What are you trying to do?  Blow yourself up?"  This didn't make me feel very good about myself so I told her it was her fault for buying me the book and she said, "Ok fine just don't use so much tape."  I walked outside and  asked my dad if we had any corks; we had none.  So I went over to my neighbors house and I asked them if they had any corks; they had plenty of corks.  I borrowed one and told them I needed it for a rocket.  They didn't believe me so I said ok to bad.  I needed a ball needle so I asked my dad and this time he had one.  He asked me what I needed it for and I told him to watch.

    I took my bottle and filled it half full of water, pushed the needle into the cork, pushed the cork into the bottle,  attached my bicycle pump to the needle, set the rocket fins on the ground and went and got my mom.  They came outside and watched me, they thought I was crazy.

    I started pumping.  After about ten to twelve pumps the rocket took off right in my face getting me all wet.  My mom jumped and so did my dad.  It only went as high as the telephone wires in front of my house, which is maybe twenty-five feet.
    It went on like this for a long time without a launcher.  I had always knew that I needed something to put the rocket on so the fins wouldn't become soggy and make the rocket fall over every time I tried to pump it up. 

    When we got the internet things became more and more clearer to me that I was not the only one out there.  I finally solved the problem of soggy fins in 1998.  When I made a launcher.  I have since then improved my launcher, and compete regularly in a competition that is held by the FSEA (Future Scientists and Engineers of America) every year at Tustin High School.

    I am really good at making water rockets now so if you have any questions please feel free to ask me.

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To learn how to make a water rocket

NEVER stand over a pressurized bottle while pumping!  They can exceed over 150mph in less than 5 seconds when released!

NEVER attempt to catch a rocket that is coming down!  They can also exceed over 100mph!

If you have any questions or comments feel free to email me at [email protected]

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