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Are you tired of looking for information and “how-to” instructions for WATER ROCKETS and only finding the finished products with no directions, poor instructions that don’t give all the details, or no information at all on the specific details you are looking for?"  Maybe you are looking for how to make a reliable parachute recovery system or ideas and details for building that competition rocket?

Maybe you  have been looking for a comprehensive book on water rocketry on Amazon.com.  You didn't find it did you?

My name is Gary Jacobs.  I started building my own chemical model rocket motors in the early 1970's, have been building high power amateur rocket engines for several years and now have side-tracked into the fun and exciting realm of water rockets.  With a degree in engineering and 21 years at "the" major aerospace company, I am the right person to answer all your water rocket questions.

So what can I do for you?

• Give you all the information in one place that you have been looking for saving you tons of time and making you an expert in water rocketry FAST!

• I'll do this by providing you with step-by-step instructions, pictures, parts lists, and diagrams making it so easy to understand that instead of getting frustrated searching and then trying to build, you'll be saying, "WOW!  That was WAY easier than I thought it would be!"

• I'll take you step-by-step from your first simple launcher, progressing to more and more complex rockets and special launchers and finally move you to designing and building your own rockets and finally to competition rockets.

• You can jump in anywhere you want so if you have already been building water rockets but want to advance, just skip ahead.  All the information you need at each level will be provided at that level.

• How about where you get parts?  Alternate parts?  Alternate methods?  Yes, all that too.

If you know somewhere else that will even begin to match this, please let me know, I want to be shocked?

My Background 

I spent a majority of my career in an engineering test equipment group where engineering designs were only part of my job -- another major part was writing, guess what, "how-to" manuals.  How to operate, how to calibrate and how to certify the equipment I and others designed. 

In looking back on my life and career I find that I have been teaching and writing all of my adult life (and even as a teenager) and have become, if I do say so myself, quite an expert at teaching "how to."  Not only how to do things but how to learn how to do things so people can go beyond just what I teach them.  So now you can...

 Learn from a person who not only knows the subject but can provide the "how to" so simple anyone can understand and follow the directions. 

I have been building my own chemical rocket motors and providing information to others on how to make their own but in my ongoing research, I kept running into water rockets so I started checking into those. 

My concept was that you just took a 2-liter pop bottle, filled it part full of water, then pressurized it with air and let it go.  I decided if I was going to be an expert in hobby rockets I needed to know about water rockets, too.

I could have used my engineering background to figure everything on my own but any engineer worth his salt knows that you first find out what has been done before so you aren't re-inventing the wheel and then go on from there. 

So I started googling for water rockets and of course found those simple rockets I had in my mind but was surprised to find that a few people had taken water rockets way beyond.  I also found as many designs for launchers as there were people building them.

What I did NOT find was the kind of "how-to" information that I was used to creating myself.  I found tons of web sites with "here is what I did," and "here are the things I tried that didn't really work, and discussions of this that and the other thing in generalities but the actual "how to" in details that anyone could follow was extremely rare.  When I did find good "how to's," they were on very specific subjects which means all together there were lots of holes for a person trying to find the "whole story."

It became amazingly clear to me that there just was nothing anywhere that covered the entire realm (or even a significant part) of water rocketry, not in printed books, ebooks, videos, websites, or anything else.

This made me smile because this is what I love doing--figuring out all the details, compiling them, and writing them into super easy to understand manuals. 

Back at "the company" I learned really quickly from the users of my manuals when they weren't clear and then had to spend extra time doing it over.  Since having to do it over again was a little embarrassing for me besides inconvenient and irritating to the users, I quickly learned how to get down to the nitty-gritty and make it REALLY easy to understand and to include ALL the DETAILS the first time.

So I took the challenge.

Discover the BEST resource on how to build  water rockets and launchers or how to design water rockets on your own…

I wish that during my own investigation into water rocketry I would have had the information that can have soon.  Instead I had to learn the hard way through trying to understand from a few photos and simple text and then applying my background in engineering, analytical nature and sometimes just through trial and error. 

I had to figure it all out, then actually build everything, then test it and fine tune it.  It took a lot of time and money.  There were, of course, failures along the way and times when I had to back up and start over and go in a different direction. 

But you don’t have to go through all the development and mistakes and costs – I’ve done the work for you so that you can now build bottle rockets and launchers that you can be sure will work the first time… or you can build on the existing knowledge (now that you will have that) and go on to your own research and experimenting without having to re-invent the wheel. 

My special ebooks--volumes 1 and 2--are the first complete works on Water Rocketry that explain all:

Here are a some of the subjects in these two books:  

• Save time and frustration with the simple to follow directions --
  Build your first simple water rocket and launcher in under an hour.
• Increase the excitement by bumping up your altitudes --
  Increasing performance.
• Wow your friends, family, and neighbors with rockets taller than yourself --
  Building Multi-bottle rockets
• Just for fun, all kinds of wacky and oddball but interesting rockets and ideas for more --
  Wacky and unusual rockets
• Another crowd pleaser --
  Two-stage water rockets
• While others are still using pop bottles, impress everyone
  when you show up with a sleak "real" rocket --
  Moving beyond pop bottles -- FTP & composite
• Show your expertise, eliminate the lawn darts and smashed bottles --
  Recovery systems -- parachutes and parachute deployment techniques, back sliders, glide recovery and more
• Move into the "Big League," go for extreme altitudes, awards and  record attempts --
  Adding electronics – timers, altimeters, flight recorders, tracking beacons, enunciators, GPS, etc.
• You will need some new techniques for your high performance water rockets -- get a jump on the competition with all these different options --
  Launchers A to Z: simple, complex, high power

• Save time and money, get ahead of the competition with these --
  Tips and tricks

• Whether you are an educator or youth leader looking to for educational information or an advanced hobbiest expanding the envelope, you'll find what you need here --
  The science and math behind water rockets

• All the information you will need to go beyond this manual and break new ground in water rocketry --
  Designing your own rockets

• Never be bored with your hobby, there are other ways to produce the driving pressure (carbon dioxide, nitrogen, chemical reactions, hydrogen & oxygen, and more) -- 
  Beyond water and air

• If you enjoy water rocketry, you'll LOVE high power rocketry and
  maybe even experimental rocketry building your own solid
  propellant rocket engines.  Get an introduction --
  Beyond bottle rockets

I show you in detail EXACTLY how with precise step by step instructions for each of these subjects and more .

But that's not all...

   …because this resource answers your every question and eliminates your confusion, about water rockets and launchers, not only will you discover everything you need to know about building water rockets and launchers…

You can impress your friends, become the talk of the neighborhood, Mr. Water Rocket, who “knows everything about Water Rockets.” 

You could have the neighborhood kids all wanting to get involved and bugging you to "launch some more water rockets". 

Get online and into the forums.  Be the person who answers the questions and whom people go to with their questions. 

If you are an educator or youth club leader, be exceptional at developing water rocket projects and teaching building techniques and the science behind them. 

You will learn…

• what works, what doesn’t and why.

• the “lingo” of not only water rocketry but all rocketry; you’ll know what “impulse” is, and the difference between “specific impulse” and “total impulse;”  what a “backslider” is, it's uses, advantages and disadvantages;  what a “Clark cable-tie release” and Gardena release is; You'll learn about Robinson couplings, air flaps, Tomy timers,  what “CG” and “CP” are and their relationship in a stable rocket; and much more.

• how to optimize your rockets for maximum altitude.

• what adhesives to use and how to join bottles.

• what else you can use instead of bottles.

• what pressures you can use in bottles and other materials, how much water to use, and what gives the highest altitudes

• how to make parachutes, how to attach them and how to make them deploy at apogee or at a set time or specific altitude.

All this and more and without having to spend hours searching the internet or library… and MUCH OF THIS INFORMATION YOU WILL NOT FIND ANYWHERE ELSE!

Start Building Your Water Rockets Today

You would expect to pay $79 or more for this much information IF YOU COULD FIND IT (which you can’t) but I want this to be affordable for everyone so that is why I have decided to put the very low price of only $17 on volume 1 of this manual as an introductory offer.

Why so cheap?

I know that you will be absolutely delighted when you have had a chance to read and use this manual.  You will find, as I have been telling you, that it is THE BEST, with the easiest to understand step-by-step instructions, most complete, most detailed and most comprehensive work on water rockets and launchers you could have imagined…  and in addition to that, all the details and science behind them that you could possibly want.

I am betting that you will be SO happy with this manual that you will be looking for my next technical manuals and will become a lifetime customer of mine! There is the reason... I want you coming back for more.

But don’t wait…

As word of this manual gets circulated around and demand goes up, as I know it will, I expect to be raising the price to what it really should sell for.

“The Complete Water Rocket Manual"

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