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It's your hobby, you get out of it what you want.
Building museum pieces is OK, if that's what you want. Good for you and I'm glad someone is doing that. For me, I like the building very much so,... but to se it fly,... OH MY GOSH!!! That thrill cannot come from anything else,... and sometimes they fail,... but that's rocketry. But the thrill I get from a sucessful flight, and the memory of watching it go up, and seeing that chute pop out and sucessfully bring it back down,... I cannot put that feeling into words. Have fun at whatever you do! It you enjoy it, it's worth doing!
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I have a lot of rockets and I plan to launch each at least once(if I live long enough). I've been building and flying rockets for a lot of years and have always kept them safely stored. Or so I thought until a pack of rodents invaded and destroyed a Centuri Saturn 1B, Laser-X, Centurian, Taurus, Lance Corporal, Estes original Honest John, Mars Snooper Saturn V(simi-scale), Delta, Andromeda, etc.
I also have a Mars Lander that I just recently launched only to have it hang on the launch rod just long enough to send it into a nose dive resulting, fortunately, in only moderate damage. In short, anything can happen to our precious collections at any time but I would prefer to lose a rocket in flight than to a rat. |
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(Bill stands up and starts "THE WAVE"!)
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(wave)
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To build or not to build... to fly or not to fly....
I do collect some original old kits, but I also believe that rockets were meant to fly. I have a set of rules I follow for myself: 1) If the rocket is a vintage, original, sealed kit in good condition I do not open it. If I do not want it for my collection, I sell it on ebay aand use the money to either buy other collectible kits, or clone supplies. Even if I want to build that particular model, the money I get from an ebay sale allows me to buy a ton of clone supplies from BMS, Totally Tubular, or Semroc. 2) If the kit is open, I will usually build it. There ain't nuthin' like original parts!! Vintage built model rockets: I LOVE model rockets that were built 'back in the olden days'. I especially like 'kid built' models with awful paint jobs. I have over 75 now, and I fly them all. Of course, I like to fly when the weather is perfect, and on our large NAR section field, as I do not want to lose the models. Last weekend I flew my old Mars Snooper, Centuri Orion and Starlab, and even lost an original Streak. It happens!! There are no hangar queens here. Phred
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Teach the rat a lesson..................Launch 'em.................the first Astrorat !!!!!!!!! |
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Phred, you are so right about flying the vintage rockets. It is amazing how rockets built when I was a kid are still flying today. I would build these rockets in one or 2 two days, a coat or two of dope or sanding sealer on the balsa and 2 coats of Testors rattle can spray. Fins not on straight, Elmers school glue and the old rubber shock cord with tape disk for the the shroud lines. No fin guides, titebond, primer, Kevlar just a desire to build and fly. I am still amazed these rockets are still flying. When did it all get complicated?
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when our skills got better ?
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I got skills?
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Even with a big field and plenty of people to recover you could have something go wrong beyond your control like what happend to me in the late 70's after finishing my Sat V with MANY hours of work in to it.
I built the cluster (3 C's) for it but decided to be safe on the first flight and use the single "D"only to have the engine suffer a side burn which destroyed the rocket.(I was sick.) I still have that cluster I never used but maybe someday ???? If I ever find one again I will build it and YES fly it at least once but i'll be holding my breath thru the flight. Quote:
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