tomd
New Member
I'm Tom, a recent BAR from Bozeman, MT.
I first built a rocket (it is a red and white Alpha III) in the later years of elementary school (8-9 years old?) and participated in Rocketry in 4-H for a couple years. After that I fell out of the hobby with other aspects of life taking priority. Last year (roughly 25 years later) on a whim I found a couple rockets and launch stuff from Estes on clearance and bought them. Then I found most of my old rockets at my parents house in boxes (my Mean Machine hadn't fared well but most others are still in good shape), I eventually assembled and launched the new ones and forgot how much I enjoyed it! As such, I've been continuing to buy, build, and launch kits and launch some older rockets I built but never got around to launching. Now I'm starting to clone old kits/look at scratch building/scaling models. I look forward to moving from the basic LPR stuff into a bit more MPR and am interested in pursuing a Level 1 cert in the future.
I'm a very hands on person, and enjoy building/fixing things such as cars, trucks, motorcycles, electronics, woodworking, firearms, improving my CAD skills and 3D printing. (Probably more i've forgotten as well...)
I also really enjoy the outdoors, whether it be camping, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, dual sport motorcycle riding, or just generally going on adventures.
I've studied many things, went to school and finished some of them, but am a machinist by trade. I currently am doing more general manufacturing work for a local high tech company.
I am not part of any groups/clubs yet but looks like there's a fairly local one I hope to check out in the near future.
I first built a rocket (it is a red and white Alpha III) in the later years of elementary school (8-9 years old?) and participated in Rocketry in 4-H for a couple years. After that I fell out of the hobby with other aspects of life taking priority. Last year (roughly 25 years later) on a whim I found a couple rockets and launch stuff from Estes on clearance and bought them. Then I found most of my old rockets at my parents house in boxes (my Mean Machine hadn't fared well but most others are still in good shape), I eventually assembled and launched the new ones and forgot how much I enjoyed it! As such, I've been continuing to buy, build, and launch kits and launch some older rockets I built but never got around to launching. Now I'm starting to clone old kits/look at scratch building/scaling models. I look forward to moving from the basic LPR stuff into a bit more MPR and am interested in pursuing a Level 1 cert in the future.
I'm a very hands on person, and enjoy building/fixing things such as cars, trucks, motorcycles, electronics, woodworking, firearms, improving my CAD skills and 3D printing. (Probably more i've forgotten as well...)
I also really enjoy the outdoors, whether it be camping, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, dual sport motorcycle riding, or just generally going on adventures.
I've studied many things, went to school and finished some of them, but am a machinist by trade. I currently am doing more general manufacturing work for a local high tech company.
I am not part of any groups/clubs yet but looks like there's a fairly local one I hope to check out in the near future.
