Model Rockets In Movies and TV.

[jqavins]

These appear to be liquid engine combustion chambers. Maybe. Rocketry, but probably not model rocketry. (But then they're small, and there are a few people doing hobby level liquids. On the third hand, I rather doubt that's a way Tony Stark is spending his time.)

 

[jadebox]

So ...

Last year we (JonRocket) received an email and phone call from someone who works on the 'Young Sheldon" TV series. She was looking for a model rocket kit from the time period portrayed in the show. We had a couple of OOP kits in stock from that era.

That was on a Friday and she asked us to mail the kits so that they would arrive on Monday morning.

She thanked us and told us that if what we sent wasn't used as a prop, she would make sure they showed up as set dressing.

So, we packaged the kits along with a couple of rockets that we quickly assembled and sent them out by FedEx.

That Monday, "Young Sheldon" shut down production for several months due to the COVID precautions.

Skip ahead a few more months and a new episode of "Young Sheldon" airs. We watched it closely and didn't see a rocket. But, later I saw the commercial for that episode and it has a slightly longer clip of one scene from the show. At the end of the clip you get a very quick glimpse of Sheldon opening a present which appears to be a model rocket. But, it appears to be a kit in a box instead of one of the bagged kits we sent.

Since then we have been looking to spot one of "our" rockets in the background. We have spotted some rockets in Sheldon's workshop area, but not one of the ones we sent.

 

[jqavins]

I guess you could write them and ask if... Oh, never mind.

 

[CoyoteNumber2]

I don’t see it.
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Three LR-101 Atlas vernier engines. Used to be used a lot by the amateur crowd until people started printing their own.