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Old 01-16-2014, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Daddyisabar
I have heard a lot of this from cranky old Denver area rocketeers. All the "he screwed me and didn't pay for this and that, or this or that blew up and had to skedaddle here or there, or this or that was stolen," and on and on and on. I just chalk it up to a bunch of sour grapes, hearsay and that maybe someone was a better businessman and Capitalist and got things done. I want my model rocket history to be Happy-Happy-Happy, draped in Glory and mystique. We need or Hero's, our October Sky movie creation myths. I need to look at the photo of Vern with his Klingon beard in the '74 catalog and release those happy, inner child memories. If some little people got trampled over and left in the dust bin of History by the strong then so be it, that's the way things are. Who cares if Thomas Edison might have out flanked Hiram Maxim on the incandescent light bulb, Hiram's later inventions made the world a better place.


Exactly...

I'm no fan of sparkies... they're fireworks IMHO, designed for effects rather than propulsion, and thus fireworks. I suppose they're fine for desert launches where the fire risk from them is minimal, but NO WAY would I EVER allow them to be flown on my place-- and if they were the clubs flying on our land would be looking for a new launch site. They've caused too many problems and they're not worth the risks IMHO.

Justify it or argue about it all you want, vilify or flame me, whatever, but the simple fact is, that sparkies cause a heck of a lot more problems than they're worth...

Later! OL JR
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