After lurking on this site I finally decided the information was too good to take for free. I retired from teaching almost three years ago and have only built a couple rockets since then but enjoy flying them with my grandkids with whom I've built--and lost--several. I bought my first Estes Alpha in 1967 as a high school sophomore and actively enjoyed the hobby for a number of years. I've never lost my interest in rockets small or large even if I wasn't too active in my middle years. I think sounding rockets are pretty cool in purpose and in looks and prefer building scale models over the many other types of rocket kits available to us. I like the process of building as much as the flying and have a couple rockets I won't fly just because I don't want 'em dinged up. It's all low power for me; don't have time, money, or launch sites for the big stuff even though I enjoy watching YouTube videos of those who take mid- and high-power rocketry seriously. Thanks, belatedly, to everyone who has shared their construction tips from which I benefited while I was lurking on the Rocketry Forum.
All the best,
Tom
All the best,
Tom