Estes Model Rockets: A Brief History
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Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
shockie
High Plains Rocketeer
I have spent years trying to get the full video footage of the Astro-Blue Bonnet Bowl Saturn V launch and have never been able to find it.
I once bought a vhs video of the game but it didn't include the half time show.
I once bought a vhs video of the game but it didn't include the half time show.
I wonder how many Catos those first motors had?
bobby_hamill
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I remember reading an Estes article many years ago where they talked about the machine that made nosecones ,
When the machine finished a nosecone there was a "pop" when the machine ejected the nosecone.
This "popping" noise lead the machine being nicknamed " Mary Poppins "
Thanks for the memories as I have been in rocketry since the early 1960s and will quit when they put me 6 foot under
When the machine finished a nosecone there was a "pop" when the machine ejected the nosecone.
This "popping" noise lead the machine being nicknamed " Mary Poppins "
Thanks for the memories as I have been in rocketry since the early 1960s and will quit when they put me 6 foot under
He CAUGHT THE ROCKET!
shockie
High Plains Rocketeer
Max's Models owner sent me the youtube video that has this video snippet in it. It seems I was searching for the 1970 astro-bluebonnet bowl when all along it was the 1969 astro-bluebonnet bowl....duh
In the tour Bill gave us last Sunday for NARCON, he showed us Mabel but didn't explain why it's named Mabel, so now we know. Perhaps they don't want to mention it because it is a bit chauvinistic.
Straight from the horse's mouth:
https://www.vernestes.com/images/Sport Rocketry Articles/EstesArticle-Part2-Reduced.pdf
https://www.vernestes.com/images/Sport Rocketry Articles/EstesArticle-Part2-Reduced.pdf
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Incidentally, here are the main drawings in Estes' 1960-63 patent.
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SR: Why “Mabel” for the name of the rocket motor making machine?
Vern: For a short time a fellow by the name of Rudy Strong operated her. Mabel was designed to shut down if any part of the operation was not as it should be. On some occasions you would press the start button and nothing would happen. Then again, just when you thought you could turn your back on her and walk away she would turn off again. Rudy started calling her Mabel with the comment that he knew a lady by that name who was stubborn and acted exactly like that. Others operators agreed and the name stuck.
I hope Vern does a biography. I'm not much of a ready, but that is something I would enjoy.
Or, maybe he has?
Or, maybe he has?
can you provide a link so we can download and store the video on our hard drive for future viewings?
For some reason my computer saves any .pdf to the downloads folder, which I can't figure out how to stop it from doing that.
I noticed this says Part 2. Can you please list a web address that this, and other articles?
I like to save this kind of stuff to my hard drive so I can go back and reread it later.
Especially if I get a new computer and loose the book marks.
Thank You Kindly.
Hi Woody, check this link for your PDF issue:
https://pdf.wondershare.com/pdf-knowledge/view-pdf-in-browser.html
It is a browser setting.....If using Chrome click on 3 dots (right hand side)>>Settings>>advanced>>downloads>>change
If using MS Excite...click on 3 dots..>downloads>click on downloads... 3 dots and click on Change
The first part of the url that Cape Byron posted has the links to all the Sport Rocketry articles as well as a Launch magazine article and lots of other Vern Estes goodies.
www.vernestes.com
www.vernestes.com
Thanks for that. Whatever this flu thing is has made my brain less brainy...
