BassPlyr Randy
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Greetings from Hot Springs, Arkansas. For the past couple weeks or so I have been lurking in the shadows reading your posts and learning your secrets and I have come to the conclusion that y'all have a nice little forum here, with a great bunch of folks. I decieded I'd like to be a part of it, so I registered and, as Buckwheat would say, here I is.
I'm looking to get back into Rocketry, not that I can really claim that I was ever really into it. All I ever built have been lp estes kits. I've never launched anything bigger than a D engine. I built my first kits as a kid in the 70's, then started to get into it again in the early 2000's and made several kits, but life seemed to get in the way and I just didn't have the time. Now I am disabled and nothing but time. Not much money, but plenty of time. I plan on starting with some lpr kits but with the hopes to move into mpr and eventually go for level 1 cert.
When I first moved here, (I moved to Arkansas about 1 1/2 year ago from Oregon) Anyway, when I moved here I was told that power outages was not uncommon so I should put together an emergency box for the house. As we all know, an important part of any emergency box is something to do while the power is out. On a shopping trip to Michaels, I spotted some estes rockets and thought, that would be perfect for my emergency box. (Oh, did see a thread about Michaels, and yes, the one in Hot Springs still has a small section of estes rockets and accessories) Anyway, I just happen to have a few kits sitting here just begging to be built, Hi-Flier, Wizard, Guardian, Metalizer, Photon Probe.
I read a thread on here about the Hi-Flier having stability issues, so I will probably start with the Wizard and one of the others and build two of then concurently. And that should tell you something about me. Starting off with just one build isn't good enough for me, noooo I have to start building 2 at once. hahaha
I would warn you all in advance, and perhaps it's too late, but once I get started, I can be a bit of a long-winded SOB.
Anyway, Hello, I'm here,
I'm looking to get back into Rocketry, not that I can really claim that I was ever really into it. All I ever built have been lp estes kits. I've never launched anything bigger than a D engine. I built my first kits as a kid in the 70's, then started to get into it again in the early 2000's and made several kits, but life seemed to get in the way and I just didn't have the time. Now I am disabled and nothing but time. Not much money, but plenty of time. I plan on starting with some lpr kits but with the hopes to move into mpr and eventually go for level 1 cert.
When I first moved here, (I moved to Arkansas about 1 1/2 year ago from Oregon) Anyway, when I moved here I was told that power outages was not uncommon so I should put together an emergency box for the house. As we all know, an important part of any emergency box is something to do while the power is out. On a shopping trip to Michaels, I spotted some estes rockets and thought, that would be perfect for my emergency box. (Oh, did see a thread about Michaels, and yes, the one in Hot Springs still has a small section of estes rockets and accessories) Anyway, I just happen to have a few kits sitting here just begging to be built, Hi-Flier, Wizard, Guardian, Metalizer, Photon Probe.
I read a thread on here about the Hi-Flier having stability issues, so I will probably start with the Wizard and one of the others and build two of then concurently. And that should tell you something about me. Starting off with just one build isn't good enough for me, noooo I have to start building 2 at once. hahaha
I would warn you all in advance, and perhaps it's too late, but once I get started, I can be a bit of a long-winded SOB.
Anyway, Hello, I'm here,
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