did Space X hire this guy?

[Mike Mercury]

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[Louie Detroit]

Werner Von Braun approves

[Iron Chef]

That's really cool.

Now, if the real Saturn V lifted off that fast, we'd have made it to the moon in 8 hours

[IB4TL]

Pretty cool that it landed upright in the field and not on someone's car or house

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by IB4TL

Pretty cool that it landed upright in the field and not on someone's car or house

Only Boeings do that

[Yadkin]

My friends and I did Estes rockets when we were kids. Out of the dozen or so launches that I did, I only got one back. The rest were taken by the wind and ended up in trees.

The most awesome flight was a friend of mine who forgot to glue the cardboard ring into the top of the engine tube. When it lit off, the engine drove up inside the rocket, it went up about 15 feet then just hung there on fire.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

My friends and I did Estes rockets when we were kids. Out of the dozen or so launches that I did, I only got one back. The rest were taken by the wind and ended up in trees.

The most awesome flight was a friend of mine who forgot to glue the cardboard ring into the top of the engine tube. When it lit off, the engine drove up inside the rocket, it went up about 15 feet then just hung there on fire.

We did the Estes rockets too, in about 6th grade. Same results. The one we got back was destroyed because the 'chute didn't deploy. Had it, it would have caught the wind and blown into oblivion like the others. We pretty much stuck to control line airplanes after that. Big ones built from balsa kits with Fox and K&B .35's swinging 10" props that could take a finger off.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

We did the Estes rockets too, in about 6th grade. Same results. The one we got back was destroyed because the 'chute didn't deploy. Had it, it would have caught the wind and blown into oblivion like the others. We pretty much stuck to control line airplanes after that. Big ones built from balsa kits with Fox and K&B .35's swinging 10" props that could take a finger off.

My most successful was, if I can remember correctly, an Estes model named Big Bertha. It had a larger diameter payload section at the top, with the chute compartment below it. Large enough for an egg, which I of course tested out, then flew. Great launch, and the rocket large enough to see at apogee, and heavy enough that it wasn't too high. The chutes deployed and I recovered the raw egg intack.

Then I brought it home, placed the reassembled rocket on a shelf, and forgot all about the payload until it started to stink about three weeks later.

[GTOguy]

The days when 10-12 year olds were allowed to play with rockets, nitro engines, cherry bombs, M-80's....without getting hurt or arrested. Sigh....

[69camfrk]

Didn't make it into orbit. Weak..

[Bill]

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[Ronins2ndCuzzin]

I did the estes stuff as a kid too. I remembered to use streamers instead of chutes because the wind where I lived was pretty strong. I remember my favorite launch was at dusk (fluorescent green paint job and streamer). Large but light rocket (C-67 motor). Saw the rocket engine until the flame went out, heard the nose pop and could actually hear the rocket coming down. I could just barely see it. I was chasing after it trying to catch it (because that was my thing okay, don't judge) and the damn thing hit me right on the nugget. It was undamaged. What a great night.

As a celebration launch, I hard mounted a C-67 into a tiny TINY rocket and glued the nose cone in place and launched it without wadding. I NEVER saw that rocket again. My dad told me once he saw a small rocket on the side of the road on his way to work about 12 miles away...I think he was trolling me. LOL. I could never get enough of those rockets.