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[*]Machete
[*]Pistol with 6 rounds ammo
You must have really BIG snakes where you live!
[*]Machete
[*]Pistol with 6 rounds ammo
That WAS the short, simple list!
Oh, yeah. I forgot to add, under Personal Supplies:
- Machete
- Pistol with 6 rounds ammo
Sheesh!
Mark \\.
P. S. Now come on; obviously I'm kidding!!
To be used as a dethermalizer...Only 6 rounds???
To be used as a dethermalizer...
Mark \\.
P. S.: Beginners - this is just a joke! Never shoot or hurl anything at a rocket that is descending (or otherwise)!!!
Well, you are one third right...Mark, if I were a beginner here, I'd probably be thinking you're a dangerous glue geek.
Well, you are one third right...
Glue? I only use it for its intended purpose.
Dangerous? No, I'm mostly harmless...
Seriously, I thought that my list was fairly simple. ....The CA? Well, everyone recommends bringing it, so I pack it and bring it with me, even though I have never ever actually used any at a launch. The personal comfort items can vary according to your region and situation.
I really did intend it to be a guide for beginners.
P. S. Oh, two more things that I forgot to include in the list:
- signal flares
- shark repellent
Agreed -- duct tape is an essential tool, regardless of the job or activity.Gotta have it!!! I have an old sidewinder whose fin split in a 45, and that thing is STILL!! flying w/the duct tape on it! Duct saved the day, and I guess I was too lazy to fix it when I got home, or cuz it flew so well after I taped it, I never took it off... A Must have in the box
That's about it
Greg
I just gotta ask: do you remember what you took with you your first time launching? When we were kids we'd walk out to the back yard with a rocket, launch pad and controller, engines and wadding and launched the thing. We didn't even have parents along.
Agreed -- duct tape is an essential tool, regardless of the job or activity.
It's "the handyman's secret weapon" after all...
Mark \\.
I just gotta ask: do you remember what you took with you your first time launching? When we were kids we'd walk out to the back yard with a rocket, launch pad and controller, engines and wadding and launched the thing. We didn't even have parents along.
We had very large yards in my neighborhood, but they certainly weren't large enough to fly a rocket in, plus they contained obstacles like power lines, trees and older siblings.
I talked about this in a post awhile back, but my parents never approved of my model rocketry activities. They always saw it as being just this side of criminality, and thought that the next step for me would be to start building pipe bombs. Even after I showed them the literature that I received from Estes Industries, they never really accepted it. I had to sneak my stuff out of the house whenever I went to launch my rockets. I also had to keep watch for the arrival in the mail of any of my orders from Estes, so that I could rush out to the mailbox, grab the package and smuggle it back into the house and down to the basement before anyone saw it. My folks knew that I had the stuff (because they demanded to see it), but I learned quickly to be very discreet and keep it out of sight, and to never talk about model rocketry when I was at home....We didn't even have parents along.
I still haven't found one!...
It was years before I found a box that really met my needs. It's the same box I am using today and is about 25 years old. (it's that blue box with all the range box stickers on it )
jim
I got all of my model rocketry stuff via mail order back when I started in 1967, too, and did so right until I put it all away for awhile in 1971. No hobby shops where I lived carried any model rocketry supplies back then; in fact, when I started, no one where I lived had even heard of model rockets!...
I remember having one of the long, narrow shipping boxes from Estes to carry all my stuff in. It was mostly mail-order when I started in '63. I was flying for several years before we had any hobby stores carry model rockets.
I talked about this in a post awhile back, but my parents never approved of my model rocketry activities. They always saw it as being just this side of criminality, and thought that the next step for me would be to start building pipe bombs. Even after I showed them the literature that I received from Estes Industries, they never really accepted it. I had to sneak my stuff out of the house whenever I went to launch my rockets. I also had to keep watch for the arrival in the mail of any of my orders from Estes, so that I could rush out to the mailbox, grab the package and smuggle it back into the house and down to the basement before anyone saw it. My folks knew that I had the stuff (because they demanded to see it), but I learned quickly to be very discreet and keep it out of sight, and to never talk about model rocketry when I was at home.
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Wow. Anyone else have this problem? I had just the opposite reaction from my parents. My dad bought me my first rocket (Sky Hook) and my mom (the crafty one) taught me how to use tools and such to aid in my building skills. While they never actively involved themselves in my building and flying, they certainly encouraged it (this is back in the early/mid 1960's).
Even my Grandfather (on my mom's side) encouraged me to bring my models up to Schroon Lake in the summer and go flying with me
jim
Both my parents were right off the boat from Sicily! Actually my mom came over in 1922 and my dad came over in 1924.
They both agreed that my rocket hobby was the dumbest thing a young man could be interested in.
Knowing this attitude when I went to college I boxed up all my old rocket stuff and took it with me!
I just gotta ask: do you remember what you took with you your first time launching? When we were kids we'd walk out to the back yard with a rocket, launch pad and controller, engines and wadding and launched the thing. We didn't even have parents along.
My earliest Model Rocket experience happened with my BSA Troop & ScoutMaster. Our Troop meetings were held in Far Southwest Washington DC at a very small City park called Bald Eagle Rec Center. I don't believe the entire park was more then 5 to 8 acres if that. Each of the troop members placed an order for an Alpha Starter kit with Estes all sent to our Scoutmasters house. On arriving Mr. Carpenter sent out the call through our telephone tree that the next weeks meeting would be a building session and maybe launch. None of us, Including Mr Carpenter had any idea of how long or what would be involved with getting our Alpha's ready to fly. It was a grand experience, I don't recall how far we got at the 3 hour long meeting but I do recall with everything else that had to be done at our weekly meetings we did not complete our models or fly that evening.
As I recall our starter sets came in those Nifty "range box" cardboard containers, including just about everything needed. All in all it was a great experience for our two patrol troop. I don't recall why, but I never built that model, it may have been given it to another Scout, I was the JASM at the time and knew I had another model already on the way. My first model rocket was a Centuri Javelin recieved by mail the following week after the troops Estes order arrived. Mr. Carpenter and I went on to do a Bunch of rocketry intertwined with Scouting from that meeting on.
To this day we still stay in contact with one another still enjoying both Scouting and MR
John, You provide a perfect example of what I have said in other threads about teaching rocketry to our youths... The teacher will remember the day for months, perhaps years. The student (you, in this case) will remember it for a lifetime...
John,
Could your boy Scout Troop have been building Astron Scouts or Marks at that time? Or Sky Hooks? In April of 1963, the Alpha was still four years away from being released as a kit.
The Boy Scouts were indirectly involved in my introduction to model rocketry, too. It was through ads in Boy's Life (BSA's official magazine) that I learned of Estes and Centuri. And my "rocket buddy" who I introduced to model rocketry right after I got my first order from Estes was the son of our Scoutmaster and was our leader Scout. But our Scout Troop itself had no involvement in rocketry; in fact, this friend was the only other model rocketeer that I ever met until I attended my first ever club launch in 2006.
MarkII
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