I'm getting smarter in my old age. Thinking these were in the Sears Wishbook, a little Googling turned up a great find: http://www.wishbookweb.com/ (You can spend hours there, so be careful ).

In the heyday of the moon race, there were several water rocket kits sold thru Sears. This one below appears to be the most likely candidate for what I was describing. I don't recall the boat tails and spin fins, but everything else seems to strike a nerve.

Roy, is this what you had?



I want to say my rockets weren't quite the same as these, but it's been 40 years. Anybody else remember these?

Here are a couple of similar kits from that era:
http://www.doug79.com/stuff/1966_SearsChristmas_Page480.jpg
http://www.doug79.com/stuff/SearsWishbook-1971-P171.jpg

Doug

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