How many different kit manufacturers in your fleet ?

[jimn]

Estes
Quest
Custom
Aerotech
Loc
BSD
Pml
Fliskit

 

[Kitch]

It's amazing how the kits seem to multiply over such a short time...

Apogee (1)
Art Applewhite (3)
Custom (1)
Edmonds Aerospace (1)
Estes (Several)
Fliskits (2)
Quest (1)
Rockitflite (1)
Roachwerks (1)

At the rate I finish rockets, it will take me years to finish what I've got.

That being said, I definitely want to take on a Q-Modeling kit someday

-Kitch

"One, Two, Five!!"

 

[MarkM]

Estes
Fliskits -- Deuce & Drake
BSD -- 3" Horizon
Public Enemy -- 4" Bullpup
Scratchbuilt HPR -- 3X Astron Bandit upscale
Scratchbuilt from Estes plans (about 20 and counting)
Balsa Machining reproduction of Estes Mars Snooper
PML -- Explorer ... well, I HAD one until I lost it in a field

 

[SARocketMan]

Aerotech
ASP
Estes
Quest
PML
Centuri

I would like to get a ShadowAero kit if they go back in to making kits.Anyone know if they will ?

Alex

 

[Tucker5246]

Currently

Apogee Components
Quest
Estes
Flis Kits

Still in the package
Dynastar Snarky

 

[loopy]

Estes
Custom
Quest
Aerotech
Public Missiles

Hoping to add Fliskits to the list pretty soon.

 

[jons17]

My list...still growing...

Art Applewhite
Atlantic
Estes
Fliskits
LOC/Precision
PDR
Public Enemy
Qmodeling
Rocket R&D
Sirius
Thrustline
US Rockets


Not sure who's next...Cosmodrome or Tango...

Jon

 

[andysrockets]

Hmmm don't recall posting to this thread yet. My rocket store must consist of...

Estes
Quest (raffle prize)
Art Applewhite
PML
LOC/Precision
Vaughn Bros
Launchpad
Rebel
Das Modell (raffle prize)
Fliskits (raffle prize) (unopened)
Orbital Engineering (still boxed)
Heller (like Airfix/Revell/ etc.) (still boxed)
Scratchbuilt

 

[JRThro]

Originally posted by rokitflite
Surprisingly short compared to the overall number of kits. Of what I remember:

Estes
Centuri
Apogee
AVI
MPC
MRC
MRI
FSI
Canaroc
Roto-Roc
Cox
Semroc
Quest
Vashon

Oh yeah... And Rokitflite

Scott, the list of manufacturers is short, but you have, um... a lot of kits from some manufacturers, and a few multiples of some kits.

 

[Stizzealth]

Just Estes, and a cobination of a Big Bertha and a Praetor. I don't have much opof a fleet, my funds are... not great.

 

[flyr98]

Aerotech (5)
Loc(3)
PML(4)
Art Applewhite(2)
Hawk Mt.(1)
Scratch(7)
Estes(2)

There is probally more, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head.

 

[Rocket Guy 1317]

I have:
Estes
Quest
Art Applewhite
The Launch Pad
Fliskit
LOC/Precision
Public Missiles Ltd.
Public Enemy Rockets
Aerotech

 

[goose_in_co]

Since I am a builder more than a flyer, I have a long list also...

Apogee
Art Applewhite
ASP
Custom
Edmonds
Estes
Excelsior
Fliskits
Fun Rockets (Foam Holverson)
Lawn Dart Rocketry
Neubauer
Nova Hobbies
Pratt Hobbies
Quest
Rogue Aerospace
Roachwerks (Sandman)
Saturn Press (Peter Alway)
Schoolyard Rocketry
Semroc
Sunward
Thrustline
West Wayne

and the Scratchs and clones, where do they fit in?

What do I like the best? anything with a balsa nose cone and fins...

 

[LFLekx]

I've got about a dozen Estes rockets, four AeroTech kits, two Binder Design kits (that I've since consolidated into one rocket...) a PML kit, and two ARG kits.

Since I've gotten big into camera-rockets, though, I've been doing more scratch-built than anything... I even have four kits not started or partly-finished.

 

[wolrey]

My list is short but I suppose it gives me room to grow.

Cosmodrome
Estes (tons over 20 years)
Quest
Scratch
Loc/Precision
PML

 

[wickball]

Fliskits
Estes
LOC
Thrustline
Squirrelworks
Aerotech
Scratch Crayon

 

[cliveroonie]

Estes
Quest
Custom
Semroc
Starlight Starflight Starfleet ??? or something like that
Thrustline
Rocketpad (or the remains of a rocketpad)
QCR
ASP
Fliskits
Bif's Rocket Emporium
Model Minutes
Aardvark
Apogee
Tango Papa (I have the 3.9" Mars Lander)
Edmonds
Saturn Press (Peter Alway)
Art Applewhite (free downloads, does this count?)

to be built:
A real, no foam, no kidding Holverson

looks like I am still missing:
Squirrelworks
Launch Pad
Sunward
more Thrustline (i like his kits)
Qmodeling (but the wife had better not see the package arrive)


I had an Aerotech Warthog, but decided to fly it on a G80. Can you say "bad idea"?

 

[Hospital_Rocket]

Estes - a bunch
PML -5
Blackhawk R&D - 2
Shrox - 1
Aerotech - 6
LOC - 6
Cosmodrome - 1
Shadow Composites - 1
Tango Papa - 1
Binder Design - 1
ASP - 1
Vaugn Bros - 2
Empire Rockets - 2
Quest - 4
Holverson - 1
WestWayne - 1
Edmonds Aerospace - 6
Thrustline - 2
Art Applewhite - 1
Semroc - 1
Cycline3 - 1
Fliskits - 4
Qmodeling - 1
Squirrelworks - 1
US Rockets - 1
Rocket Pad - 2
Custom - 2
Performance Rocketry - 1

On the hit list

DG&A - Armageddon
BSD - Thor
Hawk Mountain - Jumanji
Rocketman - Praying Mantis
Hangar11 - 5.5" Harpoon
Polecat - Wocket

 

[Ted Cochran]

This is approximately 9 years worth of building:

Apogee 4
Advanced Rocketry Group 1
Custom 5
Edmonds 6
Estes 50
Fliskits 3
Holverson 2
Kosrox 1
LOC 5
Nanorockets 2
North Coast Rocketry 1
Public Missiles 3
QCR 1
Quest 17
Rocketvision 2
Seattle Rocket Works 1
Tango Papa 1
US Rockets 1
(scratch, bash, Plastic models, etc) 30

It's a long list, once it's all written down! The interesting thing is that the distribution of kits still to be built is entirely different: Lots of little companies (Fliskits, Semroc, Skunkworks, etc) not so much Estes.

--tc

 

[Ray Dunakin]

In the past 20 years I've built exactly one kit rocket -- an Estes Argosy that my wife gave me about 15 years ago. I upgraded it with waferglass fins, kevlar shock cord, etc. and painted it metallic blue since blue is her favorite color. I also have an Estes Saturn V, still in the box. That was another gift; don't know if I'll ever build it.

Besides the fact that I rarely fly anything other than camera rockets, I'm just too creative to stick with kits. I'd much rather build my own designs. The last two non-camera rockets I built were odd-rocs.

However, I'm planning to buy one of those Flis Tri-Glides because it's so much fun, and also simple to prep. Eventually I'll probably end up hanging the gliders off the side of a camera rocket just to see what happens.

 

[LFLekx]

Originally posted by Ray Dunakin
Eventually I'll probably end up hanging the gliders off the side of a camera rocket just to see what happens.

Don't forget to put a camera on the glider, too...

 

[Aron Sanford]

I have:
ESTES(TOO MANY TO COUNT!)
QUEST 10
THE LAUNCH PAD 10
THRUSTLINE 1
ROCKETPAD 10
AEROTECH 4
BMS 3
CUSTOM 2
STARLIGHT 4
SEMROC 1
ASP 5
ART APPLEWHITE 5
EDMONDS 2
US ROCKETS 1


ON THE WAY:
2 LAUNCH PAD KITS
1 ESTES
2 ROCKETPAD
1 AEROTECH

 

[jflis]

Originally posted by Ray Dunakin
In the past 20 years I've built exactly one kit rocket -- an Estes Argosy that my wife gave me about 15 years ago. I upgraded it with waferglass fins, kevlar shock cord, etc. and painted it metallic blue since blue is her favorite color. I also have an Estes Saturn V, still in the box. That was another gift; don't know if I'll ever build it.

Besides the fact that I rarely fly anything other than camera rockets, I'm just too creative to stick with kits. I'd much rather build my own designs. The last two non-camera rockets I built were odd-rocs.

However, I'm planning to buy one of those Flis Tri-Glides because it's so much fun, and also simple to prep. Eventually I'll probably end up hanging the gliders off the side of a camera rocket just to see what happens.

Now, this is a major "feel good" The fact that you've only built *one* kit in the past 20 years and that your second kit will be one of ours

Yea a vid of those separating would be nice from the rockets point of view What would have *really* been cool would be to have you launch one of your video rockets above the 100 mass Tri-Glide launch at Plaster

 

[Fore Check]

Let's see...

In no particular order:

Estes
Quest
Custom
Aerotech
Apogee
RocketPad
Art Applewhite
Thrustline
Roachwerks
Edmonds
FlisKits
Semroc
Centuri
RokitFlite (The Odyssey kit)
Mostly scratch clones and upscales

If I ever win the lottery and don't have to work a regular job, maybe I'll kit up some upscales and stuff just for fun (i.e. no major ambitions of profits) and attach a "company" name to the things I've put together.

 

[Ray Dunakin]

Originally posted by jflis
Now, this is a major "feel good" The fact that you've only built *one* kit in the past 20 years and that your second kit will be one of ours

Yea a vid of those separating would be nice from the rockets point of view What would have *really* been cool would be to have you launch one of your video rockets above the 100 mass Tri-Glide launch at Plaster

Yeah, I thought of that too, but with all the kids scattered across the range waiting to catch the gliders, it would have been too risky to send up something heavy along with them. If there was an ejection failure or something, it could be really bad.

 

[jflis]

Yep, good point.

And they *needed* the kids... I mean, really, *Andy* certainly wasn't going to go get them all! LOL

 

[richalex2010]

Estes (of course )
Fliskits
Quest
Custom (no flightworthy ones though)
Scrach models

Coming later today:
PML
Edmonds