Dude!!

[Electrode]

Anyone else have a Estes Dude? I got one last week and will be fly'n it this weekend. I plan on flying it on it's recomended motor the D12-3 first. then it's off on a E11j-3.
I'll post a report on it's flight after I get back.

 

[CoolRockets]

I have an Estes dude but it’s broken

 

[tsmith1315]

Electrode! Finally, after 22 years, you finally got a response! Come back!

 

[kuririn]

Anyone else have a Estes Dude?

Launched mine twice on Ds.
Don't forget to bring a straw to blow it up.
Or fill it with helium and enter it in the "Longest flight time" competition.

 

[kuririn]

Found the video of the second launch.
It's the first one in the queue.

 

[neil_w]

That thing will never not be hilarious.

Hats off to whomever had the original deranged idea, and also to the person who actually gave it the green light as an actual product.

 

[Hobie1dog]

and he hasn't been on here since April 2008

 

[kuririn]

Now he can launch it.

 

[icyclops]

It’s like launching a whale….fat and wiggly

 

[Ulexis]

SWEET!!

 

[DigBaddy]

This is what immediately comes to mind any time I see that thing.

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.​

 

[Back_at_it]

I just bought one last fall. I haven't flown it yet but I need to get it out this summer.

 

[cerving]

It flies great on an AT 24/40 F12... some of us TRASD-affiliated flyers did a Dude drag race at LDRS 35. It was hilarious... it got a bigger crowd reaction than any of the many M flights.

 

[neil_w]

It flies great on an AT 24/40 F12... some of us TRASD-affiliated flyers did a Dude drag race at LDRS 35. It was hilarious... it got a bigger crowd reaction than any of the many M flights.

OMG please let there be video of this somewhere.

 

[KenECoyote]

Thinking of upscaling it...

"The Big Dude"

 

[kuririn]

"The Big Dude"

Fill it with hydrogen and get the crowd really excited.

 

[KenECoyote]

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Fill it with hydrogen and get the crowd really excited.

Mega Der Dummkopf!

 

[cerving]

I knew somebody posted a video... mine started late but went the highest, it's the one that you see doing a belly flop at the end. Thanks Warner!

 

[Daddyisabar]

The Dude rules! Dude, where's my car? The Dude abides.

 

[smstachwick]

I knew somebody posted a video... mine started late but went the highest, it's the one that you see doing a belly flop at the end. Thanks Warner!

That is hilarious!

 

[neil_w]

I knew somebody posted a video... mine started late but went the highest, it's the one that you see doing a belly flop at the end. Thanks Warner!

HEADS UP!!! HEADS UP!!!

 

[smstachwick]

HEADS UP!!! HEADS IP!!!

It’s the crash zoom out immediately following that gets me. Excellent timing.

 

[bad_idea]

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Fill it with hydrogen and get the crowd really excited.

 

[BABAR]

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Fill it with hydrogen and get the crowd really excited.

It’s the crash zoom out immediately following that gets me. Excellent timing.

I like the fact the videographer reflexively anticipated a faster acceleration, the frame goes up AHEAD of the rockets, had to angle back DOWN to bring them into frame.