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Rocketry Product: Estes - Alpha {Kit} (25) [1966-]
Funny Underwater LPR Launch Video (2011-12-12)
Looking for a quick laugh? You can find it on YouTube HERE It looks like an Estes Alpha III that's been waterproofed. Listen to the launch sound at about :58 seconds in. One of the comments said it: ... [Read More]
Heavy Duty BT-50 Tubing! (2013-07-15)Anybody who has followed the blog knows I hate BT-20 and BT-50 tubes. They are thin walled and can crimp when friction fitting engines or on a hard landing. The inside diameter of a Estes style ... [Read More]
Estes Dummy Engine (2014-04-27)I'd always seen these in the catalogs, but never in person. These pictures came off an Ebay listing HERE . Here's a dummy engine from the Estes Astron PHANTOM model, the first clear ... [Read More]
July 14, 2012, STEM Launch (2014-07-15)Orlando area STEM coordinator, Abdul Siddiqui, contacted the R.O.C.K. section about holding a launch for the High School Summer Engineering Interns. Twenty Alpha flights went up using A8-3 ... [Read More]
Centuri Screaming Eagle Background (2014-08-17)Introduced in the 1973 Centuri Catalog, the Screaming Eagle was kit #KF-3 and sold for $2.00. The Screaming Eagle was released at the same time as another ARTF model, the Centuri Argus that used the ... [Read More]
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