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I am not able to do the towing, and I believe Mike Shinn will be at work that day and will not be able to tow. I hope that helps.

Okay then – we’ll see you out there. Remind me please who is towing?

Whitney has assured me that it will rain Wednesday and Thursday, so we should be good to go 🙂

Actually, NO. The prairie got very little of the rainfall and the wind and sun has dried out more of the vegetation than the little bit of moisture has helped. When I spoke with Jon Halverson with the USFS today,…   Read more»

Cool! I wrote him a couple days ago, haven’t heard from him yet. I’ll let you know what I find out

Kevin,I’m willing to help out. Email me If you’d like a hand.Ted Apketedapke@gmail.com

I’ll drop him a note and see what he is looking for.Love doing this kind of stuff.Kevin

I only say that because one of my 5 L2 attempts failed because of a missing seal disk and o-ring… and I needed to buy a new case and forward closure because of it.

Don’t forget the seal disk and o-ring. It’s quite spectacular when you do.

Thanks Joe. I have Rouse-Tech casings with obviously (red) Dr. Rocket forward closures, and who knows what on the aft… so its a crap shoot as to when these were actually manufactured.I had figured that at some point AT made…   Read more»

Yup, thanks Warren, I’m good and paranoid on that already.

From the picture it looks as if you have what it takes. The previously issued and now outdated smaller aft closures have been pretty much eliminated from the offerrings. Didn’t really alter the performance of the motors, just made a…   Read more»

I guess it would be about a 4X upscale. Start with a 4″ tube and upscale from there. Easy to do in RockSim. Then you can put a 75mm motor mount tube in it and do thru the wall fin…   Read more»

I’m looking at an Estes Ricochet. Questions as to how to fit a 75mm motor tube in it?I’m in it for fun as much as anything. I get a kick out of seeing an Estes upscale in just about any…   Read more»

Hi Ted; didn’t you read the contest rules? We are not suppose to tell anyone what we are building, so I cannot tell you that I am buliding a 4.3X Estes Falcon with a 4 1/2 foot wingspan. But then…   Read more»

I seem to remember some NAR guys back when I was a kid did an underwater launch of a couple model rockets. There was an article I believe in an old Model Rocketry magazine. Harry Stein might have been involved.

Maybe this time, I will get to meet the wizard. That would be cool. Yeah, house goes on the market in couple weeks. That pretty much will determine everything. She is already there in Wichita, for a month now. Sure…   Read more»

as it is easy to install, does not require modifying the motor casing plastic end bit, and doesn’t rely on the threads holding the shock cord assembly to the air frame.PS. Heard a rumor that you’re bolting to Dorothy and…   Read more»

Hey,I built my motor retainer just like the areo-pak, on my Kestral build. EXCEPT I used 2-3/32″ FG bulk plates, and a two section of 54 mm FG coupling, I think the were 3/4″ long. I sandwiched the two bulk…   Read more»

My method is sort of funky. I just scrape out the smoke charge, drill through the delay firing hole, and put a 1/4 inch threaded forged eye bolt through it. I place a large washer and nut on this and…   Read more»