In my rocketry class for 4th and 5th graders this year, one of the topics I wanted to cover was payloads. The planned launch part of that topic was to launch some egg lofters.


I had a few egg lofters that I build from scratch with my own designs. But, they used D engines, and for a school yard, that was a bit too much. I'm also a bit paranoid at the school, and prefer to launch kits, or clones of kits, since those designs are more proven. I just want to avoid finger pointing should an egg land in the wrong place.


So, I dug up one of my old kits, the old Estes Eggspress, kit #1996. Its of an old design with die cut balsa fins, being circa 1988 to 1991. It's been sitting around in mine, and like one or more ebay seller's, build piles for quite a while. One thing I liked about it is that the egg compartment is already yellow, and is large enough for padding and at least a medium egg.

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