Airstart-Starting one or more motors in the air

AP-(Ammonium Perchlorate) motor oxidizer

APCP-Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant

Apogee-The peak altitude ot a rocket flight

AT-Aerotech (Major Rocket Motor Company)

AST-Andy, Steven, Trey (Rocket company that owns Roketcentral)

Altimeter-A small chip that reports a rockets apogee.

Ballistic-When a rocket freefalls nose first

Bag Recovery-1.Recovering a rocket with a bag after a crash. 2. Tying a bag to the shock cord when you don't have a parachute.

Beer-What usually gets a large rocket project going. 

BP- Black Powder

Burnout-When a motor stops thrusting

Boat Tail-A reducer at the aft end ot a rocket.

CATO- Catastrophe At take off

Composite-1. A motor made of a solid fuel/ oxidizer and a liquid binder. 2. A material that uses a cloth and a liquid resin (i.e. Fiberglass)

Convolute Wound airframe- a method where the fibers are wrapped into a tube, Usually stronger than filament wound tubes.

Delay-The amount of time between ignition and ejection

Drogue-A small parachute deployed at apogee

Dual Deployment-2 step recovery where a drouge is deployed at apogee and a main at a specified altitude

Event-Something triggered during flight (i.e. Parachute ejection)

Filament Wound airframe-a method in whict the filaments are made into a tube centrifugally

Flight Line-Where the range begins

G10-A high density sheet of fiberglass

Hybrid-A motor that runs off of a solid and a liquid fuel

Launch-An attempt to send a rocket high in the atmosphere

LOX-Liquid Oxygen

Main-A large parachute

Mininum diameter-Where the airframe is the motor mount

Motor-Tube of propellant that makes a rocket fly

Motor Mount-The inner tube that the motor goes in.

Padcam-A camera set up dangerously close to the pad.

Powder-What you get when you put an F101-T in an Estes rocket 

PSAN-Phase Stabilized Ammonium Nitrate

Range-Place on a field where the launch occurs.

Rocket-The aircraft that will be launched

Saltpeter-Potassium Nitrate, used in rocket motors

Shred-When the rocket rips into pieces