Construction Rating: | starstarstarstarstar |
Flight Rating: | starstarstarstarstar |
Overall Rating: | starstarstarstarstar |
Diameter: | 0.74 inches |
Manufacturer: | Estes |
Skill Level: | 1 |
Style: | Sport |
Brief:
One of very few good Estes little minimum diameter rocket kits.
Construction:
The kit includes:
Construction was easy taking about 2 hours. You could do it in half an hour with cyanoacrylate (CA). No problems here. Motor retention is accomplished with wrapping masking tape around the motor. I'm not great at building rockets but this was easy. Great rocket for a school/scout group.
PROs: Easy to build, good quality parts and instructions.
CONs: None, which is surprising for a kit from Estes these days.
Finishing:
My teacher did the paint job I wanted perfectly: red nose, yellow on upper BT
to blue on lower tube and fins, with gold fin tips.
PROs: Okay decals, you can paint it any way you want.
CONs: Stupid Estes paint color shown.
Construction Rating: 5 out of 5
Flight:
1st flight was an A8-3. Perfect! What more to say? 2 sheets wadding is fine.
2nd and 3rd flights were on a B6-4. An excellent pair of flights.
4th flight was on B6-4 again. It lost 1 fin under power and then the nose cone and streamer separated. I don't fault Estes here since I forgot wadding! The rocket will be repaired and flown again.
Recovery:
PROs: Reliable, little drift.
CONs: None really.
Flight Rating: 5 out of 5
Summary:
It is a great rocket. There's a glimmer of hope for Estes.
PROs: Easy to build, reliable flier.
CONs: None
Overall Rating: 5 out of 5
A very easy kit to build, good price. The hobby store I go to sold them in the bulk pack and put it on the shelf so it it was even cheaper :) Components Engine Spacer Engine Block Body Tube Launch Lug Shock Cord Mount Tube Marking Guide Streamer Shock Cord Nose Cone Nose Cone Insert Blasa Fins Decals It seems like a lot, but ...
This guy is a good starter's rocket, as it is easy to build, fun to fly, and yet it presents more of a challenge than the "ready-to-fly" kits. The instructions were easy to follow with basic sketches to depict just about every step. I felt that no special measures needed to be taken during assembly -- just follow the instructions! Finishing: I find the best way to finish small diameter ...
Upon becoming seriously involved as a BAR in the spring of 2001, I went looking through local hobby stores, hoping to find that some of my favorite rockets from my early years were still available. The Wizard, a high flying minimum diameter rocket, turned out to be the sole remaining holdover from my original fleet. Included in the kit: 1 - 8.65" BT-20 (BT-20B) 1 - Engine block ...
This is truly a great beginner's rocket. I picked it up, being a BAR, to get myself back into the rocket building world. I built mine exactly by the instructions. When preparing for flight, I find it sometimes difficult to pack the streamer so that it ejects with no problem. If I were to build another, I would tie a length of Kevlar to the engine block for use as the shock cord. This way, there ...
Brief: The Estes Wizard is a basic 18mm rocket but it's a very fast and high flying rocket. Construction: The kit came with 8.75" of BT-20, a launch lug, engine block, shock cord, streamer, a plastic nose cone and die-cut balsa to make fins. The Estes Wizard is extremely easy to make, especially since the motor is friction fit so you just need to glue in the engine block. ...
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B.L. (November 1, 1999)