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I think the Frito Bandito was voiced by the great Mel Blanc (a.k.a. Bugs Bunny and a zillion other characters) Man I remember these ads. the stereotypes certainly wouldn't fly today but we were more innocent back then. (Except the hippies!) :-0

So THAT'S where the "cheeseboogie, cheeseboogie!" SNL bit came from!! Used to watch SNL a lot back then as the Belushi brothers graduated from the same high school I was in. Jim is out in Oregon on his ranch raising legal cannabis in green houses now. When starting college in 1975 at IBC in...

My brother got paranoid some years ago and had a Katolight 40kw natural gas powered generator installed for the family home. Was afraid Com Ed was going to have roving blackouts in the heat of summer. Has a 231 cu. inch V6 engine in it. It tests itself once a week and is incredibly silent...

Still don't know how many are dead at the bottom of the river in cars plus the missing workers patching potholes are probably dead. Will likely take some time to get a death count. Kurt

Shoot, I just make sure the CG is right with the loaded rocket and will be fine. If I gotta add nose weight, no big deal. Just add a bigger motor if one wants to fly higher. Swing testing is for modrocs. Certainly can't be done with larger projects easily at all! Invest in a good sim...

That sounds like a good explanation to me. The stuff I'm using in the lightweight R/C use are probably Lithium polymer. But...... Those Russian and Elon Musks' rocket can be so big! ;)

I looked online and that's what was posted. Might be an outdated link but on top. Lithiums are pretty light hence their use in R/C stuff. Could project some sort of lithium packs used on the ISS. Kurt

Was watching some of the online feed from NASA on the ISS and think it's nice they have a Russian to English translator when the Russian cosmonauts are communicating. I was wondering, it was said in the "early" days nickel-hydrogen batteries were used on the ISS when orbiting the "dark side"...

The first Alien movie I saw with some of my college friends on the big screen when it first came out. When something bad was happening, we'd scream like little girls. Movie trivia: In the scene where Sigourney Weaver fights the Alien from a yellow mechanical device that evens up the odds, it's...

I didn't go through the whole thread but if I recall, if one does through the wall plywood fins, they're better off to withstand flutter. In the case of using plywood fins, if they do the 1/3rd's, 2/3d's and full span lamination with lite fiberglass cloth and epoxy lamination, it will withstand...

The Titan missile had some problems during early development but it was initially intended to launch nuclear missiles to Russia. By the time it was co-apted for Gemini, the bugs had been worked out. Yeah, the early Vanguard program had bugs too as they were trying to rush it since Russia got...

Surprised they weren't prepared to spray water around the surrounding area to prevent fire spread. Yeah I know, once APCP starts burning, it's almost impossible to stop. Although with a nuclear Minuteman missile, I've read when the inertial guidance determines the motor fired long enough to...

Good gosh! Great point! I live out in the sticks in a semi rural town and no problem here for me with I, H or less motors for testing. Bigger stuff, I drive around the corner to a municipal golf driving range. On the south side of the driving range off to the side, the city reserved a portion...

I and others have been burned on this back in the day hence my stressing it. Many DIY electronics (P6K) were notorious with this. Fly without a tracker and worked fine nominally. Certainly you're being facetious. :)

I always, always, always ground test a new altimeter with bare ematches to make sure they will perform nominally. On the other hand, if one is using an Rf tracker, deployment altimeters can be messed with if they aren't designed properly (grounded appropriately on the pc board, nothing the...

I remember when the B motors were like .45 cents apiece when I was a kid! That shows my age.

Give people the source of an ohm meter that can read that low. I had trouble finding mine years ago and doubt the seller is still in business. It's important the meter doesn't use much current or a good match will pop!

Ahhhh, once an object gets up high and wants to orbit, it has to tilt over and achieve 15k to 17k+ mph orbital velocity to stay in orbit. I believe that is why one sees commercial and NASA launches go off and curve upwards to orbit. They don't want to go "superfast" down low due to friction...

The advice I will give is try to screw-in the charge containers on a bulkhead to press fit the plastic canisters into them. On very small DD rockets with Estes "type" tubes, it's hard to do that and I had a free "micro centrifuge" canister just wired to the altimeter blow the wall out of the...

Dang! I should have put my foot down when my late wife told me to get rid of my old machines. I think I have an old win 95 laptop. Am out of town now but will have to check when I get back. kurt