Hey all,
I'll actually get to be home for awhile over Christmas (and a number of times over the next several months, such is the life of traveling for work). My rocket fleet is split into two squadrons. First Squadron is back home in Nebraska, and Second Squadron is based in both my apartment and office at my companies corporate hq in Kentucky.
Side note, I work for an aviation missions group and an airport FBO. I'm the computer tech no one listens to, the internet research tech they listen to half the time, and the bloke responsible for taking all manner of photographs and video of our airplanes, pilots, mechanics, and students.
Anyway, I figured I'll have plenty of time to launch a few rockets from First Squadron while I'm home, so I got to thinking of what I want to launch. On the for sure list is the Estes Cajun. I first got into rockets when I was 10 back in 1992, and the Cajun was a rocket my Dad had bought me sometime that year. I never did finish it after he died the following February, and finally did finish it in BAR phase 2 about 10 years ago. I never did get around to flying it, so I might fly it once then retire it. I did clone it as I was finishing it (albeit with a parachute instead of the originals streamer), so that will get the followup flights. Other flyers will be my original Big Bertha (as it is just that cool), and my clone of the Estes America (kit was no. 2042, starter kit was no. 1447, original was my first rocket, also a gift from my Dad, and it isn't in that great of shape after a number of launches by pre-teen me). I'm sure I'll dig out a few other rockets like my Alphas (which have twins in Second Squadron) and maybe my first ever rocket I designed myself.
But I'll bring it home to the topic. I have one or two Astrocam 110's in First Squadron, and remembered how fun they were to fly, if not get any decent pictures with them (which I don't remember doing). Being a photographer, I've spent time a bit of time shopping around for camera gear and supplies, and one of my sources for film stocks new 110 film ( https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Format_110&ci=2545&N=4294548524+4089464918 ). So that got me to thinking, that I just might have to launch my Astrocam! I doubt I'll get any decent photos, but I might get 1 or 2, and I'll have some fun for sure.
And on that note, I remember reading some old material on the Astrocam that the launch vehicle for it is called the Delta II. I've thought off and on over the years of building just the Delta II rocket itself. I've got a set of BT-56 tubes somewhere, and the NC-56 nosecones aren't that hard to get ahold of. The only thing I'm lacking is that plastic fin can. If anyone out there has a spare from a crashed Astrocam 110 or something, feel free to pass it on!
I'll actually get to be home for awhile over Christmas (and a number of times over the next several months, such is the life of traveling for work). My rocket fleet is split into two squadrons. First Squadron is back home in Nebraska, and Second Squadron is based in both my apartment and office at my companies corporate hq in Kentucky.
Side note, I work for an aviation missions group and an airport FBO. I'm the computer tech no one listens to, the internet research tech they listen to half the time, and the bloke responsible for taking all manner of photographs and video of our airplanes, pilots, mechanics, and students.
Anyway, I figured I'll have plenty of time to launch a few rockets from First Squadron while I'm home, so I got to thinking of what I want to launch. On the for sure list is the Estes Cajun. I first got into rockets when I was 10 back in 1992, and the Cajun was a rocket my Dad had bought me sometime that year. I never did finish it after he died the following February, and finally did finish it in BAR phase 2 about 10 years ago. I never did get around to flying it, so I might fly it once then retire it. I did clone it as I was finishing it (albeit with a parachute instead of the originals streamer), so that will get the followup flights. Other flyers will be my original Big Bertha (as it is just that cool), and my clone of the Estes America (kit was no. 2042, starter kit was no. 1447, original was my first rocket, also a gift from my Dad, and it isn't in that great of shape after a number of launches by pre-teen me). I'm sure I'll dig out a few other rockets like my Alphas (which have twins in Second Squadron) and maybe my first ever rocket I designed myself.
But I'll bring it home to the topic. I have one or two Astrocam 110's in First Squadron, and remembered how fun they were to fly, if not get any decent pictures with them (which I don't remember doing). Being a photographer, I've spent time a bit of time shopping around for camera gear and supplies, and one of my sources for film stocks new 110 film ( https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Format_110&ci=2545&N=4294548524+4089464918 ). So that got me to thinking, that I just might have to launch my Astrocam! I doubt I'll get any decent photos, but I might get 1 or 2, and I'll have some fun for sure.
And on that note, I remember reading some old material on the Astrocam that the launch vehicle for it is called the Delta II. I've thought off and on over the years of building just the Delta II rocket itself. I've got a set of BT-56 tubes somewhere, and the NC-56 nosecones aren't that hard to get ahold of. The only thing I'm lacking is that plastic fin can. If anyone out there has a spare from a crashed Astrocam 110 or something, feel free to pass it on!
