They're still available, here is an auction for a lot of 18, ending tonight. An alternative for storage (and not nostalgia) are short wide screw-top cans, widely available online.
You might be a child in the 70s if:
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bobby_hamill
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the red and white rocket was a single stage where as the 2 red rockets were the first and second stage of a 2 stage rocket and all were water powered
How did that work? (Actually, I could never get the single stage to work right anyway.)
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My brothers and I had single stage ones, and they worked great... until we overcharged them and they cracked.
200 feet?! I don't think I ever got above about 20'.
Somehow, they never held pressure. The gasket was hard, or the movable sleeve was cracked, or the sleeve didn't move freely so you lost all the pressure before it was fully released. Just a disappointing, wet mess.
Mine worked quite well. Over charged it a few times and dad was able to fix enough to work a while longer. It finally gave up when it hit the harder than concrete ground of Idaho summer.
Altitude of 200 feet, for that size I don't think you would have been able to see apogee. 50 -75ish is probably where most of mine were at apogee. I don't recall ever losing sight of it during the flights. But then again that was 50 plus years ago!
Altitude of 200 feet, for that size I don't think you would have been able to see apogee. 50 -75ish is probably where most of mine were at apogee. I don't recall ever losing sight of it during the flights. But then again that was 50 plus years ago!
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Directions on back of box
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I don't think I ever got the 2 stage rocket to work. Loved the single stage water rockets though.
The set I had had a large white first stage, circa 1960. Worked quite well, but only a few launches until the second stage was lost.
Well, here you go if you have the desire and more of a disposable income than I currently do.
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Still have one, still works.
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Directions? We don't need no stinking directions!
I had that exact set. The single stage flew well until it landed on the street and cracked the top.
The two stage I could never get to work well, or stage. Probably because I was so excited to get them, I ripped the package open, and destroyed the instructions in the process. We (my brother and I) pieced together the instructions after it didn't work, and tried again, with little to no success. If I remember correctly, the two stage didn't fly as high as the single stage, and most of the time when it staged, there was no water in the upper stage. You could make 3 or 4 flights on that little single stage, in the same amount of time that you could get one out of the two stager. They were great fun in the hot summers.
Awesome, the cable on mine had some issue I seem to recall and quit working properly.
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I love that they have maintenance instructions… don’t see that much now.
You could drive a stick shift.
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The base had a motor and the tether tube had a wire in it that rotated the helicopter's rotor. There was no motor in the helicopter itself... it would have been too heavy to fly if there was.
I still use a cloth measuring tape. I use it for measuring around body tubes.
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Ok, like those flexible drill extenders. I guess you would have laughed at me if I had suggested drones back then.
We had these, they were on control cables with a kite handle and you spun in a circle to keep it flying in a circle.
I always wanted to try one of those growing up. One day I realized they were gone from store shelves and I'd probably missed my opportunity (at least for the old .049 style).
One of those was my first flying model airplane. I have great memories of it.
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The Cox flying saucer was pretty cool... although you never knew where it was going to go.
Same here
Sort of like my Cox Dirt Buggy, at least it had a pull starter and then you let it loose in the dirt and it took off anyway it wanted to.
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You watched these:
and had her poster on the wall (long live Spandex!)
and you thought the robot dog was really cool!!
and had her poster on the wall (long live Spandex!)
and you thought the robot dog was really cool!!
My Daughter was born in 1980. Back then fathers waited in the waiting room and smoked.
The TV had Battlestar on, no my wife would not let me name our Daughter any of the SciFi Girls names.
Athena, Altair, etc.
Edit: It was not a Dog, it was a Daggit
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