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[Art Upton]

Adults were complaining that Kids playing Stick and Hoop were loosing their smarts:

 

[tsmith1315]

So you had the Stick at least ?

And a ditch!

 

[NTP2]

Adults were complaining that Kids playing Stick and Hoop were loosing their smarts:

Did they actually?!

 

[NTP2]

Compared to today, you would have been bored out of your mind. Better to play with Stik and Hoop

I guess you would have had a stroke if you could see what I did for entertainment this morning!

Ps I played Assassins Creed Odyssey.

 

[T-Rex]

Mine is Fat Daddy's first flight (I245G). Was supposed to be my L2 rocket, but I have kind of lost interest. "7 1/2" Fat Boy w/ Big Daddy Nose". One of the few good flights.

 

[MALBAR 70]

I couldn't have been bothered with the Stick and Hoop, I was having too much fun riding my Penny-Farthing...

 

[c0c0m0ke]

I knew George Wallace who played Commando Cody in the "Radar Men from the Moon" series.

Very cool!

 

[c0c0m0ke]

After looking it up, I’m confused about how this was entertaining enough to go to a movie theater!!!

These were movie serials. The movie theater managers would show these serials before or after the main feature(s). The would also show "news reels" summaries of notable current events around the world they thought people should know about. Not everyone in the late 1940s or early 1950s had TVs. I think the serials were intended to draw or capture and maintain a weekly or monthly audience that - if the main feature was a flop, at least the serial might entertain them more.

 

[c0c0m0ke]

Without the mask?

Clayton Moore, indeed, without a mask. Unmistakable voice, AND - he played a villain! After this, he landed the Lone Ranger gig.

 

[Art Upton]

Clayton Moore, indeed, without a mask. Unmistakable voice, AND - he played a villain! After this, he landed the Lone Ranger gig.

"Never Mind the Mask"

 

[n3tjm]

I'm Papa Elf. I work for Santa. You all better be good boys and girls this year (and sigh up for Christmas In July!)

But seriously, Mine is form one of our Christmas Musicals, I was manning the Choir Room where parents of students in the musical can go and sit and watch the musical which was projected on a screen if they didnt have tickets to see the musical that night.

 

[Tom Flint]

Mine is my 3" diameter Big Red Max launching from my radio controlled launch barge on a lake in Florida. The barge is patterned after the drone ship SpaceX uses to recover Falcon 9 rockets. In a mashup of names of the SpaceX drone ships, I named it "Of Course I Still Read The Instructions."

 

[teepot]

Mine is my 3" diameter Big Red Max launching from my radio controlled launch barge on a lake in Florida. The barge is patterned after the drone ship SpaceX uses to recover Falcon 9 rockets. In a mashup of names of the SpaceX drone ships, I named it "Of Course I Still Read The Instructions."

Was this launch a one and done? Or do you launch from the ship often. Waterproof rockets?

 

[Tom Flint]

Was this launch a one and done? Or do you launch from the ship often. Waterproof rockets?

I launch from the ship about once a month. The rockets are just regular cardboard construction and not waterproof. I sometimes add a bit of thin CA glue inside the front of the body tube to stop it from getting too soggy in that spot, and use laminating epoxy to seal the fins. I use a boat to recover the rockets and usually pull them from the water within one minute of them splashing down, so they do not have a lot of time to get waterlogged. Although a black powder motor was used on the launch depicted in my avatar, I have since mostly switched to using composite motors for lake flights because the black powder motors swell up in the water and become difficult to remove. After recovery, I hang the rockets in my workshop to dry for about a week, and they are good as new. That picture was taken in 2021 and I still fly that 3" Red Max regularly.

 

[Tom Flint]

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[NTP2]

I launch from the ship about once a month. The rockets are just regular cardboard construction and not waterproof. I sometimes add a bit of thin CA glue inside the front of the body tube to stop it from getting too soggy in that spot, and use laminating epoxy to seal the fins. I use a boat to recover the rockets and usually pull them from the water within one minute of them splashing down, so they do not have a lot of time to get waterlogged. Although a black powder motor was used on the launch depicted in my avatar, I have since mostly switched to using composite motors for lake flights because the black powder motors swell up in the water and become difficult to remove. After recovery, I hang the rockets in my workshop to dry for about a week, and they are good as new. That picture was taken in 2021 and I still fly that 3" Red Max regularly.

How do ignite them?

 

[Art Upton]

How do ignite them?

Wireless Electrically

 

[fyrwrxz]

Mine was from 2015 when I tried pipe cleaner art for the first time to create a Wile E Coyote for a Fliskits Acme Spitfire (that I customized as a break-apart recovery version). I really liked his expression!

I think your pipe cleaner coyote is superlative if I never said so before. Carry on! Straight smoke and good chutes.

 

[Antares JS]

Me at Pad 0A, with NG-14 in the background.

 

[DeeRoc29]

The Black Rock desert at dusk. Yours truly with the fully assembled Aquarius the day before launch.