And I have been planning on building some upscale Goonys.I never could stand the Estes Goonybirds. Not as a kid in the mid70s getting into rockets, not now as I look back
And I have been planning on building some upscale Goonys.I never could stand the Estes Goonybirds. Not as a kid in the mid70s getting into rockets, not now as I look back
Whats funny here is if you started a "Favorite Rocket" thread these same rockets would appear on that list.....
I agreed 100 percent on oddrocs, great featvto launch but not interesting and that cone ugly.I have a hard time getting excited about any sort of oddroc. ...I legitimately don't know why. Example: at QCRC last weekend, someone flew a traffic barrel on an M2400. Flew straight as an arrow. I'm sure engineering that thing so it flew well was crazy hard, and as an engineer I appreciate everything that went into it. As a rocketeer, I'm doubly impressed that they made it fly well. But I don't get excited about it, and I honestly have no idea why. I wish I COULD get excited by those to be honest.
My favorites are large rockets that are low/slow type things, and anything long burn.
Here's the traffic barrel pulled from FB, my congrats to them who flew it. Crazy impressive.
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And now we know how these strange, port-a-potty launching creatures are created. Fascinating.For me it's become any basic 3FNC or 4FNC Estes rocket. It wasn't always that way.
It started with the Estes Gnome. Back before I joined a club, I had my own Gnome. It was small and sleek and shiny silver and could go reasonably high on a fractional A motor.
Then I started helping at our club launches. Boy Scout troops showed up en masse with Gnomes. We'd help launch several dozen a day. It doesn't take too long for the same rocket flying the same profile to get monotonous. Then "monotonous" feeling grew to include any basic rocket. Whoosh pop. Whoosh pop. Whoosh pop. Rinse. Repeat.
It got to be that ANYTHING different was a welcome sight. I grew to love the ACME Spitfire, Interceptors, Estes Shuttle, Apogee Mean Machine, clusters, The Dude, scale Apollo or Mercury, gliders... Even the Estes rockets with the helicopter recovery nosecones are different enough to get my attention.
I love Oddrocs. Pyramids, spools, saucers all are interesting to me because their motor roars and spits fire all close to the ground. And when the thrust stops they slam on the air brakes. Another club officer refers to these as a waste of a motor, but he's wrong and I let him know he is. We haven't argued hard enough to warrant flipping over the launch table. Yet.
I will fight you right now!!I just got this package from erockets today.
A fat boy, a short/stubby. an odd roc/ring fin, and a 3 forward canting fin pointy rocket!
I think I ticked everyones box!
Oh, I didn't notice it was Imposter Mach Seven. Sure. Bout is scheduled for one fall. No holds barred (except face strikes, choke holds, half and full nelsons, and figure 4 leglocks). Loser becomes LilBabyMach and builds the other's favorite kit.Will the winner get full rights to the mach 7 (seven) name? ;-)
I'm sure I'm going to catch some hate for this too, but I've never understood the appeal of the Der Red Maxes. The shape/design is fine, but the decals. Didn't that side lose both wars?
I won't say I hate them, but I don't see the appeal of pyramids, spools, Happy Meal boxes, etc. I guess I just like rockets that look like...rockets.
Don't forget eye gouges and head butts. "Professional" wrestlers used to always do that when I was a kid.Oh, I didn't notice it was Imposter Mach Seven. Sure. Bout is scheduled for one fall. No holds barred (except face strikes, choke holds, half and full nelsons, and figure 4 leglocks). Loser becomes LilBabyMach and builds the other's favorite kit.
In the same vein, I put the V2 in the list. Probably not a favorite among Londoners, either.
I noticed you put "professional" in quotation marks. Are you implying there's something illegitimate about the sport?Don't forget eye gouges and head butts. "Professional" wrestlers used to always do that when I was a kid.
In the same vein, I put the V2 in the list. Probably not a favorite among Londoners, either.
Oh, I didn't notice it was Imposter Mach Seven. Sure. Bout is scheduled for one fall. No holds barred (except face strikes, choke holds, half and full nelsons, and figure 4 leglocks). Loser becomes LilBabyMach and builds the other's favorite kit.
Hadn't ever seen that one before. Oh my. I would just say that whoever designed that one... well, had a very differently tuned aesthetic sense than my own.For my money there's no ulglier rocket than the OOP Starlight Seiron3. Everything is just off to my eye, from the proportions to the transition to the blunt nosecone with the, um, unfortunate paint scheme.
For my money there's no ulglier rocket than the OOP Starlight Seiron3. Everything is just off to my eye, from the proportions to the transition to the blunt nosecone with the, um, unfortunate paint scheme.
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"Professional" wrestling is like one of the best-known news outlets. It's entertainment, not real.I noticed you put "professional" in quotation marks. Are you implying there's something illegitimate about the sport?
Quotes are in the wrong place IMHO. Should be Professional "Wrestling". I mean, they are definitely getting paid."Professional" wrestling is like one of the best-known news outlets. It's entertainment, not real.
Hadn't ever seen that one before. Oh my. I would just say that whoever designed that one... well, had a very differently tuned aesthetic sense than my own.
This is an interesting question.Similar but less dramatic, Estes recently has a lot of nifty sci-fi rockets, but comparing them to the nifty sci-fi rockets from their 1980 catalog, the old ones seem way cooler. It it just nostalgia coloring my viewpoint or did those old designs really work better design-wise than the new ones?
I always figured the Fat Boy was a mix of the Fat Man and Little Boy bombs.
Has anyone replicated the Fat Man with fin box?
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That Seiron...
I agree with the sense that it's just "off" somehow. Lots of good design ideas, lots of style features that I usually find appealing, just everythings kind of the wrong size. Maybe someone who knows more about art design can explain why it doesn't work, because there's definitely something going on there...
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