Star Wars blast from the past

A co-worker, who no longer is in the hobby, walked into my office and gifted me this...



Appears to have come from a set because it came with the launch controller (no pad) and a couple of A10T motors with wadding. Parachute and shroud lines are fine, shock cord is still elastic and not brittle. Appears to have not been launched. Instructions, a little ragged, have a 1998 date on it. Cool!

Nice addition to the fleet

I built one of those early in my rocketry days, not knowing much about what motors could and couldn't do. I was at a local club launch and got it set up on one of their pads, which happened to be sitting on pavement.

It was a short "rocket" so I'd put a small motor in it and the announcement said, "Next up is an R2D2 rocket. I haven't seen one of those in years. It's launching on... an A motor? Wow, he's brave trying to launch it on that!" Wait, what??? I suddenly was scared I'd made a big mistake (I did) and wondered why the range officer (or whatever he's called) didn't give me a warning when I turned in my card to be assigned a launch pad.

The launch was short and it broke on impact with the pavement.

Other reviews of that rocket have suggested it is a great hanger queen and a Hindenburg flyer.

That was an RTF rocket that came as a starter set with launch controller, launch pad and motors.

It was released during the Star Wars Episode I time frame.

I flew the R2-D2 several times and it flew just fine.

Mine lives in the office to remind me what being a BAR last time was like.

The larger 4" diameter R2D2 is underpowered on C6 motors, but flies well on D12-3 motors, with sufficient NW. This is the smaller 2" one, right? The A10 didn't have sufficient altitude?