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I always thought that Estes Mirv was a cool design, but unfortunately it seems to be out of production. I'd be interested in ideas on how to clone this bird. Anyone have any?

So the rubber band shock cord for my little Estes Summit that my son and I like to shoot mini engines broke. Unfortunately the loop in the transition piece where they attached it is recessed in a bizarre manner and I don't have a way to attach the stupid shock cord when I replace it. Any...

Hey folks, Well, we got a couple of the mix-n-match 50 sets over Christmas, and I picked up a few Booster 60s. The adapter for the booster that screws in place for the engine also fits the plastic fin can for the Mix-N-Match 50s. I've got a few of the booster engines, and I'm really considering...

Hey folks! I found some more rocket bits and that included a couple of short lengths of 13mm tube. I'd like to turn this into a rocket, but am unsure about fin design/stability, and I was thinking of flying on A mini motors. I was thinking of some kind of tumble recovery for one, and a streamer...

Hey guys! I forgot to mention this a few weeks ago, but apparently Walmart has been passing their "written off" returns to some local thrift stores, and I was able to get the rockets from a few of the launch sets for cheap (79 cents a pound, and jee, rockets aren't exactly heavy!). I built the...

Hey folks, I've been looking for days that were almost still to take my son flying his rockets. Tomorrow is going to be the first low-wind day that I can take him out in a while, so I was wondering if we could take our model rockets out then, and what techniques do I use to fly safely? Mostly...

So, I wanted to replace the missing top half of my son's Flutter-by with the purple nose cone from the Mix & Match 50 set (it's a spare part we have lying around) and a length of body tube from the same kit. I'll have to check in techniques about getting straight cuts on these tubes. It seems to...

Howdy folks! My son has been getting into rocketry, and I've been getting BACK into it after about a 34-35 year hiatus. The selection of motors that I've been able to find in Tucson is terrible, with Michael's actually asking for ABOVE MSRP, Walmart being out of stock, etc., and I'd be kind of...

I plan on flying this guy on an A8-3 and then maybe a C6-5 (Walmart was selling all their packs of motors for the same price...so go big! LOL) Any issues I might run into? I think I see one already, I need to modify the motor mount on the next one maybe?

Well...my little boy and I were flying some card stock models, an Applewhite saucer on mini motors, a smaller Cinco on an A10-PT, and my bigger Cinco on an A8-3 then a C6-5... and my bigger Cinco got suck on the roof of my house! Unfortunately, lots of rain due tomorrow, so it probably won't...

Hey folks. I have been looking at the rocket boosted gliders, and wanting to build one. I really like the simpler designs, and have a fair amount of scrap balsa wood on hand from building wargames scenery. Plus, the name, gotta love the name of the Canaroc Nomad. :-) Anyway, there's not a good...

Hey guys! So, we put together an Art Applewhite Cinco today, and flew it on an A8-3 engine. It didn't go very high, but the tumble recovery was without any damage. It was close enough to the ground to clearly see the ejection charge make a nice plume of fire from the forward end! A little...

Hey folks, I purchased several Flutter-By kits, and put together two of them. One of them, I used about a 20" length of kite string to tie together in hopes the pieces stay close together after the ejection charge. It's tied around the engine tube...trying to avoid the "zipper" thing people...

Hey folks, I was wondering if anyone had ideas for rocketry uses (besides those cars) for the A10-PT rocket motors. One of the walmarts near me has dozens and dozens of packages that they'll be clearing out soon since Christmas stuff is coming in. What are your thoughts? Would I want to try...

Looking at the rockets to see what I'll need to ready them for more flights. The parachute lines ripped the holes out. Is this normal? What causes the lines with the supplied parachutes to just rip out like that? Should I upgrade to the purple chute (that's 15", right?)? It's a shame, the chute...

In case I need to make my own, and because I like the thought of building my skills, I was wanting to make some of my own igniters to start Estes engines. What guage nichrome wire would work best do y'all think? Too thick doesn't heat enough, right?

Well...We launched several Estes rockets. There seemed to be issues when we used the Estes recovery wadding...but not the home-made paper towel + borax wadding. EX-200 failed to deploy parachute but recovered intact on grass field (estes wadding) Summit beautiful flight, it arrived missing a...

Hey guys, I know I'm here with the newbie questions. My son picked out an Estes Shooting Star, which he opened up over the weekend so we could fly it (prior to hopefully fixing my launch controller issues). He was pretty sad to see that the factory applied decal had very large, protruding...

Hiya folks, my little boy received the Estes Tandem-X set for his birthday. We went to launch some rockets last weekend, and it appears the controller did not produce enough juice to launch the rockets. I called Estes, and the lady I spoke to in customer service was very helpful, but recommended...