model rockets

[60vwnewengland]

I have just started/got into building Estes rockets. I am in the process of building a Viking 1949

Does anyone else do this? Or am I the only loser who passes the time during the winter building these things, going onto the frozen lakes and launching these things?
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[Matt K.]

You are not the only one.....i have been flying rockets since i was about ten years old and have had several over the years. I dont fly them any more but my friends kids do. We used to love the one that had a small 110 camera in it.
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[Glenn]

I used to build and fly them... 40 years ago.
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[Da TOW'D]

We have an Estes Alpha 111 rocket and been wondering if we can hook it under our 12ft. wingspan weedwacker powered high wing camera carrier and not blowing the whole thing up.

We have a Hydrogen powered rocket that was fun to watch until
we tried to double the amount of hydrogen-and got a big bang.

As a kid my friends and I built zinc dust and sulphur rockets and burned out many body tubes trying to get one to fly more than 15ft. before going sideways out of control.

We also built match head rockets .
Then we built black powder cannons shooting Metrcal cans full of cement
so glad to have all my fingers after that.

have fun
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We have been doing rockets for years but never thought of this.
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[1977_L63H_P27]

As the father of three young children, I fly model rockets (and RC planes) occasionally. Nothing to elaborate, just the stuff we can buy at Walmart. I loved flying kites and model rockets with my dad and wanted to keep the tradition going. I may get older, but I refuse to grow up!
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[Sketchy_1]

We have a few that I fire off with my son. He always wants to mate the smallest rocket with the largest engine it will carry. It's a decent way to introduce basic physics, basic building skills, is cheap, loud and fast.

We launched one with two attaching shuttles and he spent the time tweaking the flight controls to get the most glide out of them. Better than him sitting in front of a TV playing videos games on a beautiful day.
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[wbrown45]

I used to have a rocket club with my middle schoolers. They loved them and it was a valuable team and skill building lesson. Plus, we had a blast!
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[Letterman7]

Still have quite a few that I flew up until I went to college. Now there is no place open enough (or legal) to fly near me, so they just sit on the shelf.

[jbbugs]

I used to build and fly them when I was a 14 year-old kid back in 1978. We had a science teacher in our school that started a rocket club, scoring us much better prices direct from Estes. We had a blast with those things. We built one of the bigger V-2 rockets that used 3 engines. The bigger rockets are more fun with their slow lift-offs.
Estes also used to make a helicopter model that was powered by a Cox .020 engine. Wish I still had that thing.
I'd rather see today's kids playing with these kind of things, rather than playing video games.
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[Gary]

Check out this organization: The history of LDRS: Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships
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[drscope]

In high school, the first project we did in physics class was to build model rockets.

We started out the year correctly! On the way outside to launch them, our's mysteriously went off IN the hallway! All by itself! Honest!

That sort of set the tone for the rest of the school year. We learned a lot in that class, just not the stuff they were trying to teach us.

If you think launching them outside is cool, you should really try it in the school hallway with 30 students and a freaked out teacher! That was cool.
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[thewalrus]

I have a box in my basement FULL of old rockets. I went through a hardcore phase back in middle school where I was obsessed with these things. I used to go up to Allen Field in Ashby and launch them off. Then I lost a ton of them and ran out of money (Being only 12/13) so I put them aside. I was thinking back in the summer of digging them out and getting back into them but DAMN are the engines hard to find around our area. Walmart in Lunenburg used to sell them back when I was into them and as of 2007 (last time I launched one. Just for shits and giggles) they still did. They don't now and nowhere else I've checked besides the website carries them.

Probably the best rocket I've ever had was the first one I ever built. I can't lose this stupid thing no matter how high I fly it:
http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets/alpha-iiir

I want this. Easy to build, cheap, takes an E engine, goes over 900' and is 6' tall
http://www.estesrockets.com/001295-mean-machinetm
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[73 KAFER]

I fly them once in a while, but my older brother who is really into it has a special license to launch these huge rockets, I've been with him a couple of times at these meets and WOW, looks like NASA. Expensive too so he does not do this to often but when he does I usually make a trip down to help with the "launch sequence". his basement is nothing but rockets and R/C planes and even they are large scale, pretty cool!!

Mark
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[Jeckler]

I got an Estes kit last year, Father's Day i think. Took it and the kids to what I thought was a big enough area. 1st launch, had to chase it 1/2 mile and ask some tin-foil hat wearing old lady if I could get it out of her backyard. She disappeared, then threw it over the fence.
2nd launch, though I adjusted for the wind. I didn't . Never found it. Everything else sits on a shelf in the garage.

When I was a kid we used to build tennis ball cannon's with soup cans, launched with butane or lighter fluid.
Haven't built a potato gun, but have read John Henry's stories.
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[drscope]

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