I_Love_My_ABC
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Hi all, I'm a complete newbie to this stuff having flown only RC planes and helis in the past, but I've always had a soft spot for model rockets, and I was out flying planes with my 3 & 5 year old boys a week or so ago when we saw a guy arrive at the field with a bag full of rockets. He launched and retrieved about 5 times so we went over for a closer look and a chat about his models.
He had primarily scratch built models and had been doing it for about 20 years. He suggested that I speak to the guys at my local hobby store and get hold of a small starter kit that will teach me the basics and at the same time keep the boys ammused too!!
To be quite honest, I didn't even know that the hobby store I'd been going to for the past 10 years even sold rockets, but sure enough down the back of the store, hidden in behind the balsa wood and carbon fibre were several rocket kits from Estes and Quest. I decided on the Estes 1827 Ready-To-Fly starter set which included the launh pad, launch controller, parachute, rocket, wadding and instructions. At the insistance of the guy at the park I also picked up an additional bag of wadding and of courses a pack of Estes C6-3 engines.
It looks to be a very complete kit and seems to have just about everything we're going to need to get the job done apart from the engines. I think it might be illegal to sell a kit including engines here in Australia!!
I don't have any flight reports yet, hoping to take the boys out to launch it in the morning so I'll post a first flight report later with a video of the first launch and hopefully the recovery too.
I've been at a bit of a loss finding some good beginner resources on-line though, so if anybody has any links for first timers like me it would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers from Sydney Australia
Todd
He had primarily scratch built models and had been doing it for about 20 years. He suggested that I speak to the guys at my local hobby store and get hold of a small starter kit that will teach me the basics and at the same time keep the boys ammused too!!
To be quite honest, I didn't even know that the hobby store I'd been going to for the past 10 years even sold rockets, but sure enough down the back of the store, hidden in behind the balsa wood and carbon fibre were several rocket kits from Estes and Quest. I decided on the Estes 1827 Ready-To-Fly starter set which included the launh pad, launch controller, parachute, rocket, wadding and instructions. At the insistance of the guy at the park I also picked up an additional bag of wadding and of courses a pack of Estes C6-3 engines.
It looks to be a very complete kit and seems to have just about everything we're going to need to get the job done apart from the engines. I think it might be illegal to sell a kit including engines here in Australia!!
I don't have any flight reports yet, hoping to take the boys out to launch it in the morning so I'll post a first flight report later with a video of the first launch and hopefully the recovery too.
I've been at a bit of a loss finding some good beginner resources on-line though, so if anybody has any links for first timers like me it would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers from Sydney Australia
Todd
