| 1998-09-01 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | nice flight, recovered undamaged, had to replace 2 sections of BT after previous flight, wish I... |
| 1999-06-26 | David Fergus's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Excellent flight to a very high altitude. (launched from Mark Thell's tower); Unfortunately, I... |
| 1999-07-03 | Ron Watkins's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Good flight-predicted altitude-510 ft. -slight drift on recovery. |
| 2000-01-27 | Jim Zamecnik's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | No deployment of upper section chute, but fell horizantally at same rate as lower half on a 12... |
| 2000-04-21 | MikeyR's Estes Mean Machine | D15-4 | - | 2 18 parachutes Nice straight boost, fairly high. No parachute on the upper section. No damage,... |
| 2000-05-07 | MikeyR's Estes Mean Machine | D15-4 | - | 2x18 parachutes Excellent, straight boost. Deployed both parachutes nicely. |
| 2000-05-13 | Cliff Oliver's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Ejected motor mount. 'chute tangled until approx. 100' above ground. Repairs made and ready to fly... |
| 2000-08-12 | Tim Burger's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Drifted a long way. |
| 2000-10-28 | Cliff Oliver's Estes Mean Machine | D12-3 | - | Rocket is 18 shorter than original kit with mid ejection and 12' chute good flight |
| 2001-01-11 | Jim Zamecnik's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | on Lake Bomoseen. 1st flight of new PerfectFlight 4600 altimeter.....480'reported. 18'' nylon... |
| 2001-01-18 | Jim Zamecnik's Estes Mean Machine | D15-4 | - | on Lake Bomoseen. PerfectFlite 4600 altimeter reported 580' altitude. ~300 drift on 18'' nylon... |
| 2001-01-25 | Jim Zamecnik's Estes Mean Machine | E18-7 | - | Lake Bomoseen. My first Dual-deployment flight. Loud boost, slight arc upwind, 12'' drogue at... |
| 2001-02-07 | Charlie Kazmir's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | My first mean machine flight on a d engine.It flew sideways about 550 ft,andlanded about 100 yds... |
| 2001-02-15 | Jim Zamecnik's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | 2nd test flight, with altimeter field elevation adjustment dialed to max.(full clockwise)position.... |
| 2001-03-10 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Snagged on power lines where it ripped apart in the heavy winds. At least I recovered the nylon... |
| 2001-03-15 | Jim Zamecnik's Estes Mean Machine | F24-7 | - | Lake Bomoseen. Long chuff, straight boost. 12'' drogue at apogee(1120'), separation, airframe... |
| 2001-05-24 | MikeyR's Estes Mean Machine | F39-6 | - | Very high, very straight flight. Both pieces ended up in the tall sugar cane. Took a while to find... |
| 2001-06-09 | Donald Besaw's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | First flight. Rocket arched into the wind and did not go as high as it could have. Long walk on... |
| 2001-07-14 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | good flight, chute separated (OLD tape strips on Estes chute but no damage |
| 2001-10-13 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | nice boost, but was lost in the weeds |
| 2002-02-01 | Pat Kozacik's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | The mean machine is a five flight/ 8 fin veteran. We've flown it 5 times. Except for one flight we... |
| 2002-02-09 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Someone returned the lost Mean Machine, and despite some water damage, it flew again! Great... |
| 2002-05-25 | Randy Powell's Estes Mean Machine | F20-4 | - | needs a longer delay. |
| 2002-05-26 | Randy Powell's Estes Mean Machine | F20-4 | - | |
| 2002-06-07 | MikeyR's Estes Mean Machine | E18-7 | - | Beautiful flight and deployment. |
| 2002-06-22 | Scott Reilley's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Nice take off, nice flight. Used 18 inch chute instead of 24. Landed less that 100' from launch... |
| 2002-06-22 | Randy Powell's Estes Mean Machine | F23-4 | - | needs a 6 second delay,broke one shroud line on the chute. |
| 2002-07-07 | Randy Powell's Estes Mean Machine | F23-4 | - | nice smokey boost |
| 2002-07-21 | Randy Powell's Estes Mean Machine | F23-4 | - | |
| 2002-09-14 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | separated - shock cord mount failed, probably due to sitting out in the weather earlier; will... |
| 2002-10-05 | Randy Powell's Estes Mean Machine | F23-4 | - | Stripped the chute, rocket sustained some damage but was repaired later. |
| 2002-11-09 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | C11-3 | - | flew it as a back-slider with a streamer on the cone; good flight |
| 2002-11-09 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | separation; body acted as a back-sliding glider; some damage when it landed in tree; duct tape to... |
| 2003-03-09 | Will Borkowski's Estes Mean Machine | D12-7 | - | Nice flight up considering winds, ejection right at apogee, medium recovery walk. |
| 2003-06-14 | Dick Stafford's Estes Mean Machine | C11-3 | - | lost body section to the trees; didn't backslide as well in the almost nonexistent wind |
| 2004-02-05 | Todd Shero's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Beautiful flight, just wish I had found this site and tips before I painted it black. Rocket is... |
| 2004-02-07 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | D9-4 | - | Perfect launch on ice covered sea in sweden. Could catch it by hand when before it hit the ice. |
| 2004-02-28 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | E11-7 | - | Perfect launch on ice covered sea in Sweden. -4 Celcius.Impressing slow take off. Mean machine is... |
| 2004-03-09 | Dave Snedden's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | My Mean Machine shot 3 times in a row perfect.Caught it each time.Engine smoked long after launch.... |
| 2004-03-21 | Donald Besaw's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Very nice flight, got about 500 feet of altitude. Recovered nicely on an Estes plastic 18 inch... |
| 2004-03-27 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | F24-6 | 1804 feet | Excellent launch on is covered sea in Sweden. I really love my mean machine! Perfect flight and... |
| 2004-06-05 | Clive Davis's Estes Mean Machine | D12-3 | - | First time to launch a Mean Machine. I was surprised how stable the ascent was and the altitude it... |
| 2004-08-07 | David Logan's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Nice straight boost. Ejection just as it laid over on it's side. Recovered with a 22 inch Recovery... |
| 2004-10-09 | Michael Robbins's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | A roaring launch and spectacular flight. |
| 2004-11-20 | Jesse Tabares's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | Love this rocket. It just begs for a E9. Goes about 1600 feet. Built to speck no mods. Have flown... |
| 2004-12-04 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | D9-4 | - | Very nice flight. But it was nearly not possible to launch beausethe launchpad fell down caused by... |
| 2005-02-05 | Aaron Stanley's Estes Mean Machine | D12-3 | - | First flight was perfect and perfect recovery hit someone car on the way back down but no damage. |
| 2005-05-09 | Konrad Nenning's Estes Mean Machine | E18-4 | 1312 feet | Perfect launch in Stockholm Sweden. Drifted a bit too far and landed in a tree but recovered... |
| 2005-05-14 | Todd Shero's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Shortened Mean Machine due to warped body tubes. Rocket flew up 500' before going horizontal. As... |
| 2005-05-29 | Peter Reed's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | 300 feet | a little wobble on the way up but it was pretty windy, stock shute was obviously waaaay too big... |
| 2005-06-19 | Peter Reed's Estes Mean Machine | D12-3 | - | went up good, a little wobble, ejedction was fine, chute did not deploy but, because it divides in... |
| 2006-01-30 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | D15-4 | - | Nice safe fly with quite tiny engine because of the wind. But still a good fly in the early rocket... |
| 2006-04-08 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | D9-4 | - | Had a chute that was to heavy (for my Stovi). Heard the rocket whissle right towards the ground.... |
| 2007-02-17 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | D9-4 | - | A perfect flight as it use to be with the meane one! |
| 2007-03-17 | Hans Southlaunch's Estes Mean Machine | E11-5 | - | Gave it some load at the front - A beeper. Worked very well. Great launch with thick black smoke! |
| 2007-04-21 | Edwin Vonderbeck's Estes Mean Machine | G37-6 | - | After lift off it did 4 spirals and went horizontal and then deployed the parachute. Comment was... |
| 2007-07-17 | John Lee's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Maiden flight; Worried about deployment because of reviews but some advice on a novel method (for... |
| 2007-07-17 | John Lee's Estes Mean Machine | E9-4 | - | Tried the new chute packing with the E9 and it worked out great. |
| 2007-09-08 | John Lee's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | Good flight with no chute problems. |
| 2007-10-14 | John Lee's Estes Mean Machine | E9-4 | - | Landed hard on concrete breaking 2 fins |
| 2007-11-17 | Robert Hall's Estes Mean Machine | D12-9 | - | This was a hoot. First flight, used engine as block for next Aerotech Engine F. |
| 2007-11-17 | Robert Hall's Estes Mean Machine | F32-5 | - | This was an awesom flight as well. I was surprised to see such a long rocket fly so well. I had... |
| 2007-12-16 | John Lee's Estes Mean Machine | E9-4 | - | Great |
| 2008-02-24 | Tony Interrante's Estes Mean Machine | D12-4 | - | 20 degree angle into the wind. Flew straight up on a D. Very impressive flight. One fin broke on... |
| 2008-05-04 | Jason Orosco's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | Great flight. Heard a lot of horror stories about Estes E9 motors. |
| 2008-05-10 | John Lee's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | Landed behind a security fence. Will try to recover when business opens again. |
| 2008-05-14 | Mark Grisco's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | nice flight. cracked fin. |
| 2008-05-14 | Mark Grisco's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | first flight. perfect park flier altitude and recovery. |
| 2008-08-20 | Mark Grisco's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | straight as a you know what up to about 500 feet. |
| 2008-10-11 | Ron Mahinske's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | First flight. Went up about 500'. very nice. |
| 2008-11-15 | William Beggs's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | Great flight and recovery! |
| 2008-12-05 | Cliff Oliver's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | first flight of blue n yellow |
| 2009-04-17 | Mark Grisco's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | first flight on a E-9. perfect. |
| 2009-06-13 | Cliff Oliver's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | |
| 2009-06-21 | Tim Dicke's Estes Mean Machine | F22-5 | - | Good boost. Bent the body tube on landing near the fins. Will try to repair. |
| 2009-09-14 | Mark Grisco's Estes Mean Machine | E9-8 | - | best mean machine flight yet!!! straight up, backslid for a second b4 chute |
| 2009-11-07 | Cliff Oliver's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Estes dents at apogee. Repairable. |
| 2009-11-14 | Mark Grisco's Estes Mean Machine | E9-4 | - | kids were watching and yelling!!! awesome!!!!!!!!! cracked fin, easy fixxx!!! |
| 2010-01-01 | Monty Liu's Estes Mean Machine | C6-3 | 87 feet | Used 18mm adapter got 87 feet out of c6-3 lawn darted then ejection charge when off while rocket... |
2010-04-23  | Duane Boldt's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Great drag races at a school club launch. Sonoran Science Academy in Tucson. We drag raced 4 at... |
| 2010-04-23 | Duane Boldt's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | The D12-5's worked great on all of our mean machines this day. |
| 2010-04-23 | Duane Boldt's Estes Mean Machine | D12-5 | - | Another great ejection at apogee. Couldn't get the picture taken, but it was beautiful. 4 mean... |
| 2010-09-19 | Tim Fischer's Estes Mean Machine | D11-5 | - | Near-perfect launch and initial flight. Ejection charge was a pfft instead of a pop, and did not... |
| 2011-05-29 | Paul Nortness's "Big Black" | D12-3 | 450 feet | Perfect boost, straight up. Shroud lines got tangled up and it came down a little hard and bounced... |
| 2011-05-29 | Paul Nortness's "Big Black" | D12-3 | 500 feet | I removed the chute from the nose cone and added a swivel snap about mid way down the shock cord... |
| 2011-08-20 | Douglas Hurstell's Mean Machine | D12-3 | 500 feet | kinda wobbly off the launch rod, but she went straight up, popped the 'chute and came straight... |
| 2011-08-30 | Paul Nortness's "Big Black" | D12-3 | 500 feet | Great launch with the kids from our neighborhood rocket club. Big Black soared into the air with a... |
| 2011-09-11 | Douglas Hurstell's Mean Machine | D12-3 | 300 feet | Very low flight. Not a very straight boost. This really needs a much more powerful motor |
| 2015-11-06 | Scott Hauff's Estes Mean Machine | E9-6 | - | Rocket stuck on rod. Flew to 200ft b4 lawn dart. Top 6in of rocket destroyed and Engine mount was... |
