sandman
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Let me start this review out with a complaint to all the model rocket kit manufacturers.
The Estes Mosquito
The Fliskit Flea
The Semroc Firefly
See a pattern here?
Now notice that all manufacturer's kits that are named after a little insect...ALL seem to dissapear on the first flight!:kill: Why is that?
I have seen two examples of the Firefly launched and not once did we even see the second stage!
One was an ORIGINAL 30 year old kit that JimZ was flying for the first time. In the words of JimZ's wife after 3 hours of searching, "Jim, what were you thinking?"
I am making some modifications to mine.
1.) Single Stage with still the Firefly look.
2.) Motor mount adaptor to fly on 18mm 1/2A or 13mm A motors.
3.) The rest of the parts will go into the parts bin.
To begin I was just a little taken back by the $10 price. That seemed kinda high for the normally very inexpensive SEMROC kits.
Then I opened the package....WOW!!! a teeny tiny rocket with 42 parts!
Holy parts assortment Batman! Very impressive.
sandman
The Estes Mosquito
The Fliskit Flea
The Semroc Firefly
See a pattern here?
Now notice that all manufacturer's kits that are named after a little insect...ALL seem to dissapear on the first flight!:kill: Why is that?
I have seen two examples of the Firefly launched and not once did we even see the second stage!
One was an ORIGINAL 30 year old kit that JimZ was flying for the first time. In the words of JimZ's wife after 3 hours of searching, "Jim, what were you thinking?"
I am making some modifications to mine.
1.) Single Stage with still the Firefly look.
2.) Motor mount adaptor to fly on 18mm 1/2A or 13mm A motors.
3.) The rest of the parts will go into the parts bin.
To begin I was just a little taken back by the $10 price. That seemed kinda high for the normally very inexpensive SEMROC kits.
Then I opened the package....WOW!!! a teeny tiny rocket with 42 parts!
Holy parts assortment Batman! Very impressive.
sandman