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Short version of a long story. Grew up watching the Space Race. Lost a few of my older brother’s kits. Tried making my own rockets and motors with tinfoil wrapped tubes and curlers packed with powder from 22’s and kitchen…   Read more»

My older brother back in the 60s.Cub Scouts – Boyscouts in the 60s and 70s30 years later…………………….Then I started watching the X-Prise stuff on TV, a coupleprograms showcased HPR.I purchased an ESTES egg lofter 3 years ago. To startfrom the…   Read more»

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I flew off the cliffs of Palos Verdes. On a breezy day there was so much lift that you could fly power planes with nose weight (instead of an engine) as well as gliders. A wind ribbon would blow upwards…   Read more»

4th grade for me, we had a contest at school and one of the prizes was an Estes Avenger. Everything I did in the contest was geared towards winning that rocket, which I did. Shortly thereafter I bought an alpha…   Read more»

Another older guy.Started with an Estes kit back in 1972. I built a lot of rockets, lost a few, got out of it shortly after Star Wars came out to build robots. My kids pulled me back into rocketry in…   Read more»

I blame it on retail (and my kids).I’m not the BAR like many of you. I grew up in California where rockets were either not available, or not popular. I too saw the ads in the back of Boy’s Life…   Read more»

Start…cub scouts, then boy scouts…then got out of it for a decade, then decided it was a cheaper hobby than R/C cars and stuff…or not LOL!Had an alpha (IIRC), then some crazy estes thing which looked like a plane, watched…   Read more»

I got into rockets in 4th grade – an older neighborhood kid had a couple Estes and Centauri rockets and I saw him fly a couple of them at the local school’s football field. Then I noticed the ads in…   Read more»

Got my first rocket at age 8 or so, but unlike most people here, for me that was the summer of 1998. For several years, I flew intermittently from the local park, and then I saw a CRASH sign at…   Read more»

For the older guys in the group, I think our stories are similar. 1966/67 is when I flew my first Estes rocket at 8-9 years old. Don’t remember what is was, but probably an Alpha. I also had a Mars…   Read more»

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I personally started flying Estes rockets when I was maybe 6 or 8 years old. My older brother and I were given an Estes Mars Lander as a gift. In retrospect, I’m dumbfounded that we were able to cobble it…   Read more»

We have NCR hats and there will be MHM T-shirts again this year. See Joe Hinton for either.Warren

right now Warren is sitting in the back of his P/U holding the rear window of his camper shell closed in 50 mph winds…well maybe one of the guys let him and Joe get in out of the wind for…   Read more»

will do Warren, see you tomorrow!weather looks good

Onsite is best. Look for Warren (that’s me). I’ll be LCO Saturday AM from 8 to noon and my truck and EZ-Up will be right next to the administration EZ-Up.Warren

I totally forgot about this contest and haven’t been on the NCR site in a while.I’ve got a nice minimum diameter bird I’d like to enter the SSS at MHM; would it be possible to pony up the entry $…   Read more»

I have orderd directly from L L Electronics and you can save a few bucks. Also I specified the 219 MHz band since that’s the receiver I had and they had not problem building what I need. Here is their…   Read more»

most antennas are 8 to 12 inches but they do not really take up that much room. They can be ran down the inside of the AF or coiled up so that when it comes out it straightens out. The…   Read more»