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Today is Buzz Aldrin’s birthday. He turns 93 today. Happy birthday! In honor of the second man to set foot on a foreign world, we all should go find a moon landing denier and punch them in the face.

I thought this was pretty cool. It‘s really good video taken by the pilot.

I got this semi-scale Aerobee Hi 2-stage kit from a fellow club member who had to leave the hobby. I’m trying to find out who the original kit maker was (I’m assuming this isn’t a scratch). I’m at least the third owner of this rocket - maybe more I don’t know. The previous owner think it’s the...

It was bound to happen — I’m a novice when it comes to soldering. But I’ve successfully built about 7 or 8 of Cris’s products, and they all work great. That streak ends tonight, because I bricked the shlt out of my Quark. First, I got a bridge on the 14 pin processor. No need to worry. I‘ve...

I’ll start off by saying that I am not a fan of tube fins. I think they make the rocket look ugly. But Pem Tech’s King Kraken is squidlike, which makes it cool. I ordered one from Layne last fall, but didn’t really get a chance to work on it until recently. This isn’t going to be a long build...

I’m planning a rocket build and launch for my son’s Cub Scout den. I found a 12-pack of the Estes Generic E2X for $42. Cheaper than AC supply. Here’s the link if anyone is currently looking. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009EZPS5O/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_8JFGNGTZW16DQBM6PPD9 It’s a decent build...

I saw on one of the FB groups a rumor about Estes buying Goex (or maybe just its factory). So I checked the Louisiana Secretary Of State’s business filings and sure enough there’s a Goex Industries, LLC with a headquarters in Penrose, CO and the same address as Estes. The filing registration...

I see lots of Zephyr and a couple Peregrine threads on here and FB, but the bigger cousin doesn’t seem to get as much attention. This is the Apogee Katana: 4” airframe, 5:1 nose cone like the Zephyr and Peregrine, but the Katana is longer than both of them at about 74”. Like the Peregrine, it...

Okay, I'm sure I've changed a setting in OR, but I don't know what. I have a design file in OR. OR has no problem saving my changes to the design. However, it will not save any motor configurations or simulations. That is, I will add different motor configurations. I will run simulations. I...

One of my goals this year is to learn to fly a rocket with traditional dual deployment. I don’t have any experience with electronic deployment. I’ve been looking at a couple different 4” kits to fly, but I haven’t decided on what I want just yet. In the meantime, I bought two EggTimer Apogees...

I earned my L2 cert this past weekend, and I’m looking for a new kit to celebrate. One of my goals this year is to learn dual deploy, and I‘d like to get a kit that’s DD capable. I’m thinking about a 4” 54mm rocket. Big enough to fly H and I motors to low altitudes for DD practice, but still...

My favorite kit maker had a sale over the holidays and I went all in. I’ve been wanting to try clusters and multistage rockets, so I picked up a Deuce’s Wild and a Frick-n-Frack. The Deuce is a canted dual cluster rocket. It’s one of Fliskits’ most popular rocket. For some reason, I had a can...

Amazon releasing episodes of season 5 weekly is going to make me lose my mind. What is this, 1991? Maybe we should go back to living in caves, too. /rant If you haven’t yet, you should watch it. IMO, best sci-fi show ever made.

Ok, background: This kit had been sitting in @jd2cylman's closet for about 20 years. I bought it from him a little under two years ago. Not having much experience in high power at the time, I put it at the bottom of the build pile. Since then, I've gained some more experience building high...

So, I’m currently building the Estes Shuttle. After seeing someone else’s work on FB, I’ve been inspired to replace the cardstock top and bottom of the shuttle body with balsa. It looked really nice. I also found an old post from John Boren (the kit’s designer) suggesting 1/32” balsa. I figured...

I was going through some old rocket files and came across one that I thought some of you might like. It's an Estes STM-012 with a Jolly Logic chute release. I probably used an E12 for this flight. On descent, the JLCR gets trapped right in front of the camera, so you can see the exact moment...

Finally finished up my latest Rona build. This rocket has a very cool profile. The paint scheme is my son’s idea. It’s a way I can get him involved on the more complicated builds. His design for the drop tanks were rough on me, and I forgot to sand smooth the part that connects with the plane...

I’ve been trying to be so good. The ‘Rona has got me building more than ever. Here are some of the rockets I built over the past three months while we’ve been stuck at home. They’re in various states. Let’s start with the finished ones: Estes Dark Silver, Estes Astron Explorer and a LOC Norad...

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So I picked up a LOC Norad Pro Maxx recently - I like the look (I like transitions). It looks like this will be a good rocket to fly on our non-waiver field with F and G motors, and also something I can take to our smaller HP field for H and I fun. If it flies well on those, I might try for...