Rockets
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Those things kick ass. Almost every tree at my old childhood home had a rocket stuck in it. I even had the "Big Bertha" with a clear plastic payload chamber. It is still in a tree as well.
Damn! I may have to go buy one now.
Damn! I may have to go buy one now.
Looks like fun.
I remember loosing a few as a kid.
I heard they have ones now with a camera in it that takes a picture when it's way up there.
I remember loosing a few as a kid.
I heard they have ones now with a camera in it that takes a picture when it's way up there.
My father and I made those when I was in junior high school. I had a blast buying the kits and launching them. The thing I hated most of them was having to chase them down after they go too high and hit a high-wind. I've seen them carried for 4-5 miles away from a good high-loft wind.
I had a 3 Stage Saturn V when i was a kid.it was over 4ft tall.
It took my dad and i over a year to build
and
less than 5 seconds to blow back to little pieces again.
2 stages lit off at the same time.
it was realy cool.
It took my dad and i over a year to build
and
less than 5 seconds to blow back to little pieces again.
2 stages lit off at the same time.
it was realy cool.
When I was a wayward youth we took out the parachute and packed them with pyrodex. Then we super glued the tops on. It made for a rather impressive boom but in hindsight launching them with our 6 foot chord was probably not the best idea.
:rofl: Not yet, but I half expect them to ask to put one in a rocket sometime. LOLjimjet said:
We've been launching them for a couple of years now. Oddly enough I just though this weekend of taking the camera.
For those interested, I usually buy engines and stuff at Michaels Arts and Crafts. You know, the place that sells all that "craft" crap like styrofoam balls and crap. But they also carry Estes rockets and with the 50 or 40% off coupon that's in every sunday paper....
antichrist said::rofl: Not yet, but I half expect them to ask to put one in a rocket sometime. LOL
We've been launching them for a couple of years now. Oddly enough I just though this weekend of taking the camera.
For those interested, I usually buy engines and stuff at Michaels Arts and Crafts. You know, the place that sells all that "craft" crap like styrofoam balls and crap. But they also carry Estes rockets and with the 50 or 40% off coupon that's in every sunday paper....
Do they still make the Alpha III or something like that? It was like a foot tall with red plastic fins and nose cone. I remember that one with a C motor was one bad ass setup. The double stage rockets are also awesome.
Second the Michaels in conjunction with the 40% off coupon... saddly, that was one of my high school summer jobs. The rocket motors are literally probably one of the highest value items in those POS stores.
Total pyro as a kid. We made a small magnesium flare and put it in the Big Bertha payload section and sent it up at night. Way cool. The rocket burned up completely on the way down, but it really lit up the sky.
I remember the Big Bertha...I also remember what the Big Bertha looked like as it was coming down because the parachute was packed too tight in the nose and it wouldn't deploy. It was funny watching everyone scramble over to where it landed to find the lower half was all that was left....it landed nose first in concrete.
We used to pack GI Joes inside of them, we would tie the parachute to them instead of the rocket, of course the rocket would then just crash to the ground. every once and a while they would survive the fall. pretty amusing to us at the time but eventually our parents quit buying us the rockets cause we broke so many. haha it was fun though