I'll say it up front: No pics. I know everyone likes to see them, I do to. But my wife couldn't go and I couldn't set up rockets and corral my four year old daughter AND take pics. But we did have a great time and it was my daughters first time with rockets. I hope it's the first of many more great times we have together involving rockets.
I launched:
Fliskits Red Crayon - Wow, this baby zips off the pad. I loved it. It was stepped on by another kid that was running around but it only broke one of the clear fins, no biggie.
Fliskits Intergalactic Man of Space - I launched this one at least three times. Awesome flights. This is a favorite of mine and my daughter. We'll be doing another one that will be the Intergalactic Girl of Space with pink and all. Maybe even deserves an upscale. How about a kit, Jim? I know I'd buy one.
ASP Corporal - This baby almost went out of sight but came down quickly with the streamer. I like these ASP micro kits a lot too.
I bought a Super Value Starter Set from Quest. It came with all the launcher stuff and twenty five motors and igniters. I bought it for the the launcher and motors only but it came with ten of the Quest heavy plastic killer brick rockets. They stink! I launched the No Mercy and the Critical Mass. While they got fairly decent altitude (not even close to the crayon or the Corporal) but the poorly designed streamers didn't unwrap and they came in like killer darts. One of them missed a kid by about twenty feet. I will never launch them again. The Saturn V and other various stuff is just two heavy. Besides I like to build the kits.
I bought one of those missile silo launcher sets from Quest back when they first came out. I was not impressed to say the least. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that with the second generation of Micro Maxx motors, and with kits made from balsa and cardboard these babies really move and you get good altitude.
Folks, if you haven't tried Micro rockets, you should! This is real rocketry and my range box is a shoe box.
Next are some downscale clones. I bought some parts from Jim Flis and also a diminutive deuce. I'm going to do a micro Evel Knievel Sky Cycle.
I launched:
Fliskits Red Crayon - Wow, this baby zips off the pad. I loved it. It was stepped on by another kid that was running around but it only broke one of the clear fins, no biggie.
Fliskits Intergalactic Man of Space - I launched this one at least three times. Awesome flights. This is a favorite of mine and my daughter. We'll be doing another one that will be the Intergalactic Girl of Space with pink and all. Maybe even deserves an upscale. How about a kit, Jim? I know I'd buy one.
ASP Corporal - This baby almost went out of sight but came down quickly with the streamer. I like these ASP micro kits a lot too.
I bought a Super Value Starter Set from Quest. It came with all the launcher stuff and twenty five motors and igniters. I bought it for the the launcher and motors only but it came with ten of the Quest heavy plastic killer brick rockets. They stink! I launched the No Mercy and the Critical Mass. While they got fairly decent altitude (not even close to the crayon or the Corporal) but the poorly designed streamers didn't unwrap and they came in like killer darts. One of them missed a kid by about twenty feet. I will never launch them again. The Saturn V and other various stuff is just two heavy. Besides I like to build the kits.
I bought one of those missile silo launcher sets from Quest back when they first came out. I was not impressed to say the least. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that with the second generation of Micro Maxx motors, and with kits made from balsa and cardboard these babies really move and you get good altitude.
Folks, if you haven't tried Micro rockets, you should! This is real rocketry and my range box is a shoe box.
Next are some downscale clones. I bought some parts from Jim Flis and also a diminutive deuce. I'm going to do a micro Evel Knievel Sky Cycle.