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Okay, after being involved in the rocketry community and with you off-beat characters here on TRF for decades, one expects to receive odd and amusing things from time to time. Be it Llama shirts, a multitude of cephalopod related items, slug suckers, canned cuttlefish, stickers, magnets, pearl...

Saturday the wife baked my favorite cookies, told me to pack an overnight bag and get all my affairs in order. Not sure whether to be excited or on a bus to Tijuana. Well, it was a good surprise. We spent the night in a Titan II missile silo at Titan Ranch! Whahoo! This is so cool! Happy...

As some of you may have noticed we have been absent from TRF for a bit. It has been a rough couple of years even to the point of considering selling out. Then a member of the immediate family became ill so we started converting our attached garage into a ADA compliant apartment. To do this we...

Somehow I completely lost your thread. Attached is the Dectruction manual for the Screeming Green Meenie. It is a BT80 airframe with a 24mm motor mount. It also describes how to attach to attach the shock cord. I do hope this gets to you and is useful. Keep getting overheated from working...

Hey guys, good to be back. Now I have a question for you A not so little birdie (LW) gifted me with an Estes Maxi Brute Pershing 1-A. Still sealed in shrink wrap, still taped in the open ended shipping box, never opened. It still has the original shipping label! Last but not least, two sets of...

It seems as though no one is talking about NARAM 61 in Muncie IN. Is there some government conspiracy to hush it up? o_O It looks like it is going to be a blast and Pem-Tech will be on the Sport Range as fliers and vendors. May even try for my L3 on a 4" version of my HMAS Bonestel.:eek: Hope to...

I would like to thank Paul Lavin of Modelrockets.co.uk.for the incredibly funny and thoughtful Llama gifts. While a bit behind schedule here are the last two: A Drama Llama air-freshener and my Llama sippy cup. Thank you Paul! And thanks to everyone else who randomly sends Llama related...

On vacation in Kansas City and look what I found across the street from a cute little chocolate shop.

Has no one started a 2016 NSL thread yet?

Short story long, I ran across the history of the Falcon missile here: https://www.ausairpower.net/Falcon-Evolution.html The Falcon has always been a favorite of mine, especially with the numerous permutations. According to the website,"...in 1949, the USAF removed the “bomber-launched”...

That is it, no more. Just tried to check my Pem-Tech email and my account has been suspended AGAIN! Right in the middle of a large educational contract with the CAP in Manhattan. This is the third or fourth time that a bogus suspension has been afflicted on us, and a couple have lasted for over...

A very special Yule gift from my daughters, they said it was misses Santa. :blush: No, not really. Thanks Chad for the tatts! We wore them proudly.

Hear ye! Hear ye! Let it be known that on August 26th, I will be leaving the sweat-hole job I have suffered for the last 6 months and will be resuming my career with the State at ADEQ. No more working weekends, nights, holidays, or rotating shifts. There is much joy in the house of Pemberton...

Just received the gift of a 1966 Estes catalog in great condition. The misses got it off this new auction site called listia.com for a little of nothing. The site uses credits instead of our fake monies. You'll have to research it because I am too excited about my catalog to care. A few...

This thread has been delayed but now the truth can be told. When checking the company mail box yesterday I found it stuffed with this mysterious tube. See image below: There was no fuse hanging out or ticking sounds, like normal. Not sure of the contents, or the intent of said tube, I had it...

Here is a picture of my first DD layout for my L2 Cert bird the 4" HMAS Bonestell. She has dual altimeters (Stratologger and MAWD), dual power sources and dual charges for both events. At apogee the lower airframe pops out the 24" PML drogue chute (on 5' of SC which seems short to me) and...

Not here to moan and whine, let's just say life and work have been very difficult lately. However, it has been beautiful weather of late so, as an attempt to distract myself, the dog and I went for a drive. Look what we ran across, a Military museum in our own little town. :eyepop: The best bit...

Attached a Aeropac retainer to the HMAS Bonestell Saturday. Squirted out the portions of JB Weld, mixed it up, spread it around the aft of the motor tube and slid the retainer in place. There was a little bit of a bead around the base of the retainer so I smoothed it out into a fillet as best I...

There are for use on my L2 HMAS Bonestell. As per instructions from those with greater knowledge than myself, I slipped on down to Lowe's for shear pins and pop rivets. The Great Sages had proclaimed that I would need 2-56 or 4-40 nylon screws, so I cornered a greasy haired youth in Lowe's...

All righty then! I have finally bade it back to the forum after being rather scarce for a while. A combination of health issues (minor), work issues (MAJOR) and meeting a nice lady have made finding time to do any serious forum posting or reading neigh impossible. Then there is my poor...