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Starting Point I purchased the house in January 2007. I took this picture on the night I received the keys. The garage looks pretty big in this photo. And in fact it is a nice decent sized tandem garage. Nothing was painted at that point. As you can see, the rear wall is cement.
Goal of this project, is to create an authentic looking model of this rocket here, the MGR-2 Honest John tactical missile. MGR-1A Honest John (on left) MGR-1B Second of my custom rocket construction projects. This is the also the 2nd of my semi-scale rocket builds. The first (DD05 V2) was mostly a [...] The collection of flying rockets continues to expand. FLEET (l. to r.) 220Swift, Sprint, Fire Streak, Viking, DD05 (V2), Phoenix, DD06 (Taser mod.), Big Betty, DD07 (custom) DD05 This is a semi-custom design. Based on an Estes Baby Bertha rocket kit. Extended nose cone and scale V2 fins make this look similar to the [...] Weather was not the best this morning. Sunny but a fair bit of wind. So I ended up waiting until 16:00 to pack up 4 of the rockets and head out. We took: Taser Hi-Flier Viking 220Swift (v 2.0) Lucky for you readers, I forgot to take my camera so no video, no photos, just [...] Once I let the oldest launch her first rocket, she was hooked! We spent the rest of the morning burning up about $40 of engines in the rockets. I’d been trying to get her to at least join us to see if she would like to get into model rocketry. Being a ‘girl’ she insisted [...] The Estes Big Bertha is one of the old-school rockets from my youth. Never built one, but I’m thinking more and more about it with the boy getting into this, and wanting to put large payloads up in the air. While looking or a decent photo of the thing, I ran across this video of [...] |
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