Dead before its time

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

Got home from work this morning to find the remains of an Estes Hi-Flier and a note on the kitchen table. It seems my daughter was packing for her LA trip and squashed the Estes Hi-Flier that I had been working on this weekend. (Actually I had been working on it since 2001 or so. I didn't care for the paint and started over.) I had the body tube painted Testor's Dark Red and was in the process of masking the fins off to paint them with black metallic. She did a number on it. Crushed one fin, broke another completely off, and flattened the whole rear tube. The note said "hope you can fix it." :eek: No way, Jose. That bird went directly to the garbage. Did not pass GO, did not collect any more paint. :( Guess I'll be in the market for another one. :mad: :rolleyes:

[chrism]

The good thing is that the Hi-Flyer is still available.

[jeffyjeep]

I hope you kept the nose cone and engine hook.

ALWAYS keep the nose cone and engine hook.

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

I hope you kept the nose cone and engine hook.

ALWAYS keep the nose cone and engine hook.

Yeah, I kept the nose cone, but the engine hook was BENT! :eek:
I think she was packing her petrified elephant turd collection. :rolleyes:

[Gingerdawg]

:( Guess I'll be in the market for another one. :mad: :rolleyes:
Daughter or rocket?

[Rich Holmes]

I bought a Hi-Flyer last year just for the nose cone. I did use the body tube and launch lug too, but it was the nose cone I needed (http://www.oldrocketforum.com/showthread.php?t=13017).

(I used a 40% off coupon at Hobby Lobby. Until the Estes sale in December it was the cheapest kit I've bought.)

http://richsrockets.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_2109.jpg

Still gotta paint that thing.

[Scott6060842]

http://richsrockets.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_2109.jpg


Is that a Hi Flyer ??? Looks like a Tornado / Twister ...

Edit: Oh ... Maybe you bought a Hi Flier to make a Tornado

[Rich Holmes]

Edit: Oh ... Maybe you bought a Hi Flier to make a Tornado
Bingo!

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

I bought a Tornado to make a Tornado. Sarah hasn't killed that one because I hid it so well that even I don't know where it is at the moment. :o

[Rich Holmes]

I hid it so well that even I don't know where it is at the moment. :o
I had the same problem for about an hour after I launched mine.

[mwtoelle]

I had the same problem for about an hour after I launched mine.
If you fly them on 1/2A6-2 s, you don't have that problem. I have flown my Twister on an A8-5 once, and I still had to walk about a quarter mile to get both parts. (It was pretty windy that day.)

[Rich Holmes]

I'd venture to guess your launch site did not have grass more than a couple inches tall, and that it was pretty flat.

Mine landed maybe a couple hundred feet away and turned invisible.