As to my beginnings, I call myself a BAR, but really only had limited model rocketry exposure as a youth. My older brothers had some model rockets and they would occasionally let me watch them launch. But their interest was pretty short lived. In middle school shop class, one of our projects was to build two rockets, of the same basic design, one light weight and the other heavy weight. We rolled our own paper tubes, cut the fins, everything from scratch, but to a specific design. If we finished those two early, we were allowed to build an experimental rocket, also from scratch.
Fast forward to adulthood and on the occasion that my wife and daughters would drag me to Hobby Lobby, I would eventually meander over to the science kits/models section to kill some time while they were looking at yarn or whatever it was they were looking at. I had pondered the model rockets for a few visits, but didnt ever buy one, then one day I had, in my hand, one of the starter kits reading the packaging to see what all was included when my oldest daughter came down the isle, saw what I was looking at, and said Cool or something very similar. My other daughter came by shortly after, and I asked her if she thought model rockets would be fun and she whole heartedly agreed. That was all the encouragement I needed.
So over a mere 5 months or so we have been attending club launches, joined a club, joined the NAR, I/we have built 12 rockets (including two boost gliders and a Qubit), and rebuilt two of those. They Range from E2Xs up to Level 3 and from mini engines up to Es
is that a normal progression over that period of time? Maybe its a good thing were heading into winter.
