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Old 12-02-2005, 07:45 PM
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I was looking through my "library" of old rocket stuff a while back, and came across a copy of the old Estes Guide for Model Rocket Contests. I looked at the picture of the kids on the cover and wondered what ever happened to them. Especially the kid up in the corner on the bike ;-) I suppose most are still around but who knows where.

Two of those kids could have been me. The one with his hands on his hips looking like "let's get this show on the road" and the other one kneeling with the black glasses. That one looks like me, if I were to show you a picture of me in grade school it would look just like him

Anyway, funny stuff. Most of those are Estes kits on the pad except for the one second from right. Looks Centuri to me....
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Old 12-02-2005, 07:55 PM
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Two of those kids could have been me. The one with his hands on his hips looking like "let's get this show on the road" and the other one kneeling with the black glasses. That one looks like me, if I were to show you a picture of me in grade school it would look just like him

Anyway, funny stuff. Most of those are Estes kits on the pad except for the one second from right. Looks Centuri to me....

Kurt and I got a good laugh over this at our last club meeting. Boy, I sure wouldn't confess to looking like a geek as a kid!

I believe all of those rockets are Estes. The more I look at the one that you're thinking is an Astro-1, the more I think it's an Alpha with the fins on wrong. (A common mistake I've seen with kids putting these together. I guess they don't get the idea of "root edge". )

Can anyone name all the rockets? Kurt and I got 'em all except for that funky looking one he was talking about. There's a tricky one in the mix.
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Old 12-02-2005, 08:46 PM
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Kurt and I got a good laugh over this at our last club meeting. Boy, I sure wouldn't confess to looking like a geek as a kid!

I believe all of those rockets are Estes. The more I look at the one that you're thinking is an Astro-1, the more I think it's an Alpha with the fins on wrong. (A common mistake I've seen with kids putting these together. I guess they don't get the idea of "root edge". )

Can anyone name all the rockets? Kurt and I got 'em all except for that funky looking one he was talking about. There's a tricky one in the mix.


I'll give it a shot. I think I recognize that "tricky one"...

Left-to-right:

Constellation, upper stage of a Midget (not a Streak -- note the boattail), a repaired X-Ray (body tube appears to have patches from a bad flight), two Big Berthas (I don't see multiple ignition leads), Alpha, another Big Bertha, wrong-fin Alpha, and another Alpha...

Do I get a prize if I'm right?
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Two of those kids could have been me. The one with his hands on his hips looking like "let's get this show on the road" and the other one kneeling with the black glasses. That one looks like me, if I were to show you a picture of me in grade school it would look just like him ....


I think I could have mixed in what group, too, but I would have taken up more room...

I was never small, even when I was little...
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The more I look at the one that you're thinking is an Astro-1, the more I think it's an Alpha with the fins on wrong. (A common mistake I've seen with kids putting these together. I guess they don't get the idea of "root edge". )


The Astro-1 is much taller than the Alpha, noticeably so when they're side-by-side...

The nose cone on that one is the other giveaway to being an Alpha...
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I'll give it a shot. I think I recognize that "tricky one"...

Left-to-right:

Constellation, upper stage of a Midget (not a Streak -- note the boattail), a repaired X-Ray (body tube appears to have patches from a bad flight), two Big Berthas (I don't see multiple ignition leads), Alpha, another Big Bertha, wrong-fin Alpha, and another Alpha...

Do I get a prize if I'm right?

Close, but no cigar. The last rocket you have wrong.
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Close, but no cigar. The last rocket you have wrong.


Yeah, I'm shocked he missed that one too. You guys got the one figured out that I thought was the Centuri model even.

Note that there are ten kids and nine rockets. Which one doesn't have a model on the pad?
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Note that there are ten kids and nine rockets. Which one doesn't have a model on the pad?

Bzzzzzzztt! Back to Kindergarten for you. There's 11 kids in the picture!
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Close, but no cigar. The last rocket you have wrong.


Arrrggghhh!

It's another Constellation without the payload section! I should have recognized the nose cone, and the fin tips...
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Yeah, I'm shocked he missed that one too.


Kinda miffed myself for missing such an obvious shape...

I do notice one thing that no one else mentioned (myself included...)...

That first Constellation has a replacement nose cone. It's using the 50K instead of the 50X...
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