With the burn ban in effect and no launching allowed, the only way to fight the dreadful boredom is to get into the stack of extra Estes kits bought during the big Christmas sale a few years back. I have used up all the Mega Skeeto kits except one. What to do with all the extra left over bits? Answer: Just do a simple, quick, kit bash. Cut off an old pointy, plastic nose cone, get out the plastic weld epoxy clay, use all the bags of little side mosquito kits that came with the Mega packs, beef up the 24mm-2.6" stock paper centering rings with left over 29mm plywood ones, paste on some googly eyes, CA on some antennae, reuse a 24mm motor retainer and there you have it. I call it Skeeterrific!
3FNC set up for a kick booty 24mm composite motor with positive retention, just what the Pad Fuhrer will like. Hopefully he will not get out the snipers for the asymmetrical antennae. The fin roots are reinforced with Sonic igniter tubes that are just long launch lugs. The main tube is internally reinforced with scrap. Shock cord is underwear elastic. The reinforced pods on the side are merely for decoration and will NOT be used as silly powered PODS to create a "questionable clustered oddroc" that could be launched the very near future. There is no motor block to accommodate a BP motor in the center tube! To cluster up such a beast one would have to pre-install the correct amount of nose weight before gluing the nose cone together. So I weighted it up for one of those awesome CTI 6 grain composite motors, what is the harm in that? Yes, I do have a bag of those little red 13mm booster motors that are begging to be plugged and clustered, but I can resist. Not even thinking of taping a rear thrust ring on a center line E12 for a cluster, the fire ban is still in full effect!
Thinking Lime Green would be nice and have a ton of skeeter decals to use.
If we do get in a Summer launch this year, hopefully this "cute rocket for the kids" will open up the attending soccer mom's wallets for the donation can at the club. Maybe I could teach our LCO the Bugaloos song to sing to the kids before Skeeterrific is launched. . . that could work.
"We're the Bugaloos, the Bugaloos, we're in the air and everywhere, Flying High, Flying Free, in this land made for you and me."
Maybe with a few winks I could even get the soccer grandmas to contribute! Maybe time to come up with something from the New Zoo Review, Sigmond and the Sea Monsters or Land of the Lost.
3FNC set up for a kick booty 24mm composite motor with positive retention, just what the Pad Fuhrer will like. Hopefully he will not get out the snipers for the asymmetrical antennae. The fin roots are reinforced with Sonic igniter tubes that are just long launch lugs. The main tube is internally reinforced with scrap. Shock cord is underwear elastic. The reinforced pods on the side are merely for decoration and will NOT be used as silly powered PODS to create a "questionable clustered oddroc" that could be launched the very near future. There is no motor block to accommodate a BP motor in the center tube! To cluster up such a beast one would have to pre-install the correct amount of nose weight before gluing the nose cone together. So I weighted it up for one of those awesome CTI 6 grain composite motors, what is the harm in that? Yes, I do have a bag of those little red 13mm booster motors that are begging to be plugged and clustered, but I can resist. Not even thinking of taping a rear thrust ring on a center line E12 for a cluster, the fire ban is still in full effect!
Thinking Lime Green would be nice and have a ton of skeeter decals to use.
If we do get in a Summer launch this year, hopefully this "cute rocket for the kids" will open up the attending soccer mom's wallets for the donation can at the club. Maybe I could teach our LCO the Bugaloos song to sing to the kids before Skeeterrific is launched. . . that could work.
"We're the Bugaloos, the Bugaloos, we're in the air and everywhere, Flying High, Flying Free, in this land made for you and me."
Maybe with a few winks I could even get the soccer grandmas to contribute! Maybe time to come up with something from the New Zoo Review, Sigmond and the Sea Monsters or Land of the Lost.
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