Air Rocket Works was founded by Rick Schertle and Keith Violette. You can contact us at: [email protected].
You can contact us at: [email protected] and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Rick Schertle - Rick is in his twenty-first year teaching middle school social studies and language arts in San Jose, CA where he also leads after-school maker clubs. He’s the founder and director of the Washington Maker Workshop, a non-profit maker space in the low-income neighborhood of San Jose. He’s
a contributing writer for MAKE Magazine and designed the compressed air rocket for MAKE 15 and the folding-wing glider in MAKE 31. With his wife and kids, he loves all things that fly. Keith Violette - Keith is a mechanical design engineer with 18 years of experience designing robotic prosthetic arms, medical devices, and ultra-precision air bearings in New Hampshire. He has built several CNC machines and 3D printers, and founded a local CNC group. Keith is also a contributing writer for MAKE Magazine, and designed the Air Rocket Glider in MAKE #39, and helped redesign the CAR v2.0, v2.1 & new v2.2. He is also the lucky husband of a creative and understanding wife and father of two maker kids. Our Story - Keith first contacted Rick after building Rick's articles of the balsa wood Folding Wing Glider and the Compressed Air Rocket launcher. Since this first introduction, Rick and Keith have continued to innovate in several areas in compressed air rocketry, working to make compressed air rocketry an accessible and safe introduction for kids of all ages to make all kinds of things that fly.
