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 a Big Bertha rocket with video payload. Now.. this is pretty neat. Looking at the lauch areas these people are using, there is no reason we should not be able to pull this off at our ‘secret launch site’.

There is a shorter version of the same rocket, that I’m considering building and painting up like an old WWII V2.

Something to do while it rains.

That gives me 9 months to finish it.