This sounded awesome for about 2 seconds before the realization set in.Wildfire
Phobos and Diemos. Sounds like good, nerdy names, right? Until you realize that Phobos means "fear" and Diemos "terror" or "dread".So I started thinking about planets and moons.
So are more than a coupler of other people. I've even nicknamed my furnace blower "Vlad the Impeller".Vlad the Impaler (don't steal that, I'm using it)
If you want to dazzle them with your knowledge and worldly ways, call one Vlad Teppes. That was his real name. I have always found him to be one of history's more interesting characters. He gets a bad rap, those were incredibly brutal times and circumstances. Everything that he did to the Ottomans, he learned from the Ottomans. Brevity and good taste will preclude going into the details of his captivity as a child hostage to the Ottoman empire. I have no problem understanding the source of his ferocity.Bummer, will have to try "Lord Impaler" to be halfway original.
Charcoal Kazoo.
The group I play golf with pulled the Sofa King gag on one guy in our group who had never seen it before. Another of our group does stand up. He wrote it down and slid it across the table to the mark. Who was half in the bag. He read the thing a dozen times and he never got it. The rest of the 24 of us were laughing are butts off. I had tears running down my face and I wasn't alone. The mark now is know as Sofa King.Red Rocket
Sofa King
Vlad the Impaler (don't steal that, I'm using it)
We Todd Ed
Cornelius
Rockety McRocket Face
Amanda Huginkiss
Anita Bath
Ollie Tabooger
Moe Run
Lee Keybum
Our Air Force Academy Falcon Football cheer was (starting slowly and gradually speeding up)The group I play golf with pulled the Sofa King gag on one guy in our group who had never seen it before. Another of our group does stand up. He wrote it down and slid it across the table to the mark. Who was half in the bag. He read the thing a dozen times and he never got it. The rest of the 24 of us were laughing are butts off. I had tears running down my face and I wasn't alone. The mark now is know as Sofa King.
In defense of the Groundhog, I preferred them because they were reliable and always boosted straight with no boost trimming. It was a Jon Robbins design that was optimized to use up 3 x 36 inch balsa sheet. I downsized it to a 1" chord, which worked well with A and 1/2A 13mm motors. I went down to a 3/4" chord for the Gnat, but this proved to be my least successful Groundhog. It just did not have enough wing area.There are some good ones from old rocketry history...these are from 50 years ago
"Disaster 17-B Valkyrie" (and it lived up to its name, acres of balsa with hilariously excessive power)
Geoff Landis crashed his "Tall Tale 10", lopped of a bunch of crumpled tube and renamed it "Short Snout 6"
"Groundhog" A very high aspect ratio swingwing glider notorious for death spirals...well named IMO
"Annoy Buzz Pester Irritate" - a Gnat (1/4A) R/G by alan15578
and my favorite modern one:
"up up down down left right left right" (most of the Konami Code)
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