We had the local sheriff run us out of a wide open 110 acre park down the street. We were the only ones in the whole place. Evidently the nice lady across the street was concerned for her safety, or was fightened by the noise. The deputy told us it is illegal to shoot rockets or fly R/C aircraft in all of the townships' parks.

The guy was a real a$$ about it. He acted like he was going to ticket us.

BTW... My oldest boy has the same rocket in your picture. It's a great flyer. Nice and big, but still gets up there!

I'm sure they're surveilling your house and you're on the "do-not-fly" list.

Welcome to the "new Amerika".

You're safer now.

But you haven't had your rights infringed upon by this administration.

Oh no.

Not at all.

brilliant! :)

Great way to spend time with the kids, Mike. When I was about your son's age my dad used to take me and my two brothers out and launch rockets. I must have been in fourth or fifth grade when we started. Used to ride my bike to the hobby shop and buy motors all the time. Can your kid do that today? Probably not. Geez, I even remember running to the hardware store at that age, back when most of them stocked guns and related supplies, to buy primers, powder, and bullets for my dad. No one ever questioned it. He knew most of the guys there anyway, so they knew who I was, but still... My how times have changed.

We used to build cheap model planes with a Cox motor. We would fix the rudder and aelerons into a slow ascent with a clockwise turn. Fly 'em without strings. Long, lazy circular flight up, up, up.

Eventually we would put an M80 and some gasoline in the plane with 3 feet of Jet-X fuse. Long, lazy climb then...kaboom! Big ball of flame, then we would scramble to recover the engine and build another plane.

Man that would be fun with a radio controlled plane... Hmmm...

Why do cops look like high school kids these days???:rolleyes:

I sure miss working on these among others...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1141674351.jpg

You're just getting old. ;)

Getting?

I remember my next door neighbor had a setup and we fired it off several times, until the cardboard holder for the "c" motor fell out. Se we stuck a "D" in there and we saw it go up, but never found where it went down. We think the larger motor blew off the parachute in the little rocket.

And that's where it all began....
:)

My buddy and I use to do that.......then we started to take a "D" engine and make rudders and a nose cone for it (lightest as possible) and then he put gun powder in the nose and glued a penny onto it.......it flew sideways, chased us and blew up.It's probably why kids cant do what we used to....:D

When i was a kid we built tons of rockets (well we also had a lot of empty fields before they became ugly tract homes) cops didnt care, they just drove right past us. You could go to the hobby store and buy a box of Estes D engines. You cant do that under 18 anymore. Last time i was in a hobby store, they didnt really have kits anymore. They are sorta, pop the nose on and fly. To me at least, the whole point was building them, as it taght you stability, weight transfer and aerodynamics.

Anyone else do really stupid things with those engines? We duct taped them to roller skates, skateboards, even a boogie board in a pool one time (bad idea)

My brothers and I developed a design wherein we put an M-80 with the fuse trimmed on top of a C or D motor (can't remember which). One cheapo plastic nose cone, three fins glued right to the motor... The only fly in the ointment was that it got impossible to find M-80's with the fuse in the end; they all started coming with the fuse on the side. Great fun, though.

We then discovered that we could make a motor from a CO2 cartridge once it was empty. Drill out the hole in the neck and stuff it full of match heads cut from paper matches. Then we discovered if we packed those match heads in tight enough, we no longer had a motor, we had a rather loud firecracker. Oh, the discoveries of youth... the inquiring minds... damne lucky to still have both eyes and all my fingers.

So anyone use to make carbide cannons from soldering tin beer cans together to launch tennis balls a couple hundred yards?

We either used lighter fluid or hairspray.

Man. Hairspray, how did you get it into the tube and then plug before you set it off, or was the orifice so small you did not worry about it?

PVC pipe and hairspray for us. Tennis balls got too expensive to lose, so the "spud gun" was born. Potatos work great. Ah, the good ol' days. I wonder what I would look like now if one of those had exploded net to my ear? I wonder if I would even (be able to) care...

Ahh, good times!

I had a late 50's plastic corvette model with the metal axles that let the wheels turn. I melted a hole in the rear end and jamed a rocket motor in the back. It made it out of the garage and most of the way down the driveway before the chute charge went off. :D

Good times!

Man, lots of us were little dee-linquents playin' with 'splosives! :eek: :eek: :eek: