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Is there a way to set the default Motor Configuration Name to always include the Manufacturer title? I know how to do it using the Rename Configuration button and how to use the Duplicate Configuration button to populate the Configuration column, just hoping there’s a global setting somewhere...

Typically I stick strictly to posts/discussions about hobby rocketry. This is a rare occasion but hopefully it’ll be of value to someone. If you can go and see Godzilla Minus One (G-1). Even if you don’t care for Japanese giant monster movies or subtitled movies go anyway. Easily, without...

In the grand scheme of online hobby rocketry I’m a very tiny fish - maybe at the plankton level? But I have made a fair number of thread posts here, on YORF and FB. In many past posts I’ve stated multiple times we’ll never see the return of the “classic” mid-2000s PSII kits like Leviathan...

Probably not the best time to bring this up - we’re all at least a bit salty over Estes and their move to MAP - but they announced a 65th anniversary rocket on the company FB page this morning. It doesn’t look like any past model to me, the body tube resembles the pre-finished pearl white tube...

If you haven’t already seen the email Mark announced a nice sale on vinyl decals - 15% off through midnight Mountain Time Wednesday, April 5, coupon code AFTERFOOLS. Covers anything but custom work. Thanks Mark - Stickershock rules!

Announcement on the Estes company FB page that Bill is retiring. I attached a screenshot if you’re not a FB user and would like to read what Bill had to say. Retirement was a bittersweet time for me but after the transition I’m enjoying it - best wishes to Bill and hope he enjoys his as well!

Some tantalizing stuff from JB’s interview on TMRS 3.1: - A new upscale using the 3” PSII DBRM nose cone. Which will it be? Here’s an edited list of most of the kits that used the 60AH cone, my guess is the Maxi Icarus or the Omega but wouldn’t an upscaled Patrol Cruiser Excalibur be awesome...

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It’s been months and months and months since my last solo launch - that was MicroMaxx backyard flights of my Rocketship Games R3 Bumblebees (https://rocketshipgames.com/store/#!/Model-Rockets/c/92440315), which are great kits and great flyers, before we moved an hour and a half east to the North...

Managed to weasel my way out of packing for our upcoming move and made it to our club launch today. One goal was to fly my newly repaired Stretched Leviathan (it was originally a Scion “SPEV” kit but I just went ahead and did it as a longer Leviathan) on my very first Aerotech LMS motor - a...

The ANTAR page is up on the Estes website on the Coming Soon page https://estesrockets.com/product/007310-antar/ Water slide decals and a very long looking nose cone.

Per YORF member Turbofireball the new Big Der Red Max is on the way. It is included in the PSII line even though it’s not a re-issue of the Mega Der Red Max.

Per forum member Turbofireball on YORF the new Skylab SV and S1b have popped up on the RC Planet website: #57 Today, 01:35 PM turbofireball Model Rocket Fanatic Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 162 I did find more info on the three new Estes kits (but no definitive release...

If you’re a Disney+ subscriber the Disneyland TV show episodes “Man in Space” and “Mars and Beyond“ are FINALLY available! They announced these as April releases but for some unexplained reason they didn’t drop until today. Both are great fun - Willy Ley and Werner Von Braun are featured...

Evidently there are going to be some new Estes products announced at NARCON. Here’s a picture from FB that was posted to one of the other forums showing the Skylab Saturn V (which, supposedly, will include the Apollo upper stage as a bonus!) and a new version of the Astro Cam. No word on the...

The new Estes catalog is now online. Some interesting stuff - return of the “Super C” motor, new additions to the Space Corps and Destination Mars series, a semi-scale model of the Doorknob sounding rocket added to the PSII line...

Recently posted pix of some of the new Estes rockets for 2020. Jesse Ulibarri pointed these out on a couple of rocketry FB pages - originally posted by “Modelrocketguy” who said he had permission from Estes to release them. I find the LEO Space Train interesting - does that rail and pod...

Some interesting things here to unpack...MAV Lander, the Zed sci-fi style rocket, update/upscale of the Gyroc?, another 13mm “cult” rocket in the making with the Orange Bullet...and is that an Interceptor-style nose cone pointing skyward on the far left? Also, what’s that long silver and...

Flew my first QJets today with rather mixed results - had a nozzle blow out and lawn dart my Phase2/MPC Enterprise. The ejection charge then blew the upper body tube apart. Not all that sad about the rocket - $4.00 “special” that I wasn’t all that attached to - but the nozzle failure is...

New addition to the Estes “Coming Soon” page at estesrockets.com - the Mini Mean Machine. https://www.estesrockets.com/coming-soon/000865-mini-mean-machinetm