| 1999-03-27 | David Fergus's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | OK, but vaseline lubricant is a little too viscous, blades not rotating very fast |
| 1999-04-21 | Eric Miller's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Skywinder has a neat recovery after a long burn into the windy air over the field the ejection... |
| 1999-08-14 | David Fergus's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | suffered a nose cone separation, came down in two pieces OK. plastic model cement just doesn't... |
| 1999-11-20 | David Fergus's Estes Skywinder | C5-3 | - | forgot to put on the rubber bands, still kind of auto rotated down |
| 2000-01-01 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Again a nice flight. |
| 2000-01-07 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Nice flight to end day. |
| 2000-01-08 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Nice flight, good rotation on descent. |
| 2000-01-15 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Nice flight yet again! |
| 2000-02-05 | Randy Powell's Estes Skywinder | C5-3/C6-5 | - | lube the rotor. . i used wd-40 but a dry lube would be better. . . expoxy works good on the... |
| 2000-02-16 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Again a very nice flight. |
| 2000-02-19 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Nice flight. Good deployment and recovery. |
| 2000-02-21 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | B6-2 | - | helicopter Nice, low flight. Close landing |
| 2000-02-21 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | helicopter Nice flight into breeze. |
| 2000-03-18 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Nicely into the wind. |
| 2000-03-19 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | helicopter Jerked into the wind over the Convent. Landed hard in the parking lot, cracked the base... |
| 2000-04-04 | Scott Shaw's Estes Skywinder | C5-3 | - | Nice high flight. At ejection the rotor blades extended but the rocket gyrated wildly on the way... |
| 2000-04-04 | Scott Shaw's Estes Skywinder | B6-2 | - | Engine problems! Rocket sort of fizzled as it rose ~15 feet up and arced over pointing sideways.... |
| 2000-05-20 | Randy Powell's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Rocket flew good and rotors worked perfectly. . . landed close to pad |
| 2000-08-26 | David Fergus's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | suffered and engine compartment separation this time, came down in two pieces, definitely need a... |
| 2000-11-11 | Chuck Pierce's Estes Skywinder | C6-7 | - | One of rotors popped out of its socket, so the recovery was sloppy, but the rocket sustained no... |
| 2001-03-31 | Brandon Mickel's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | another perfect flight. Noticed tips of rotors slightly burned |
| 2001-04-01 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Notes |
| 2001-04-08 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Sailed over trees. Broke base again. |
| 2001-04-09 | Brandon Mickel's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Replaced rod and blast deflector on pad and got a nice high launch - however, rocket pranged on a... |
| 2001-05-05 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | |
| 2001-05-06 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Perfect always a great performer |
| 2001-05-12 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Rocket made its 22nd 23rd and 24th flights. All flights were perfect. |
| 2001-05-19 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Rocket made its 25th flight. Still coming back for more. |
| 2001-06-16 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | Low altitude |
| 2001-06-27 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | Perfect flight |
| 2001-06-27 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Another perfect flight |
| 2001-07-14 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Another great flight. |
| 2001-07-14 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight totalling 30 to date. Nice close recovery. Ready for more action. |
| 2001-08-11 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | good flight, totaling 12 to date |
| 2001-08-25 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight totalling 29 to date. Two blades failed to extend outward making the rocket come in... |
| 2001-11-10 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | AGF |
| 2001-12-17 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Another nice flight totalling 32 to date. |
| 2001-12-30 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice way to end the day. Nice 34th flight. Good recovery. |
| 2002-02-09 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | Again nice. |
| 2002-02-09 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | OK flight. |
| 2002-02-24 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | 34th flight, only to suffer a crippling blow this time. New body tube on order. Will fly again. |
| 2002-03-10 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | 36th flight with new body tube. Body assembly ejected again. Found rotor after extensive search.... |
| 2002-04-13 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Finially, a perfect 37th flight after two failures. Recovered close to pad. |
| 2002-04-23 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | AGF |
| 2002-04-27 | David Logan's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | |
| 2002-05-11 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | AGF |
| 2002-05-20 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | 38th flight. Still going. |
| 2002-08-01 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | This was in Sport Rocketry, too! |
| 2002-08-04 | MikeyR's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | |
| 2002-08-10 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | AGF #21 |
| 2002-11-28 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Great flight. Long walk for recovery. No damage. |
| 2003-03-09 | Will Borkowski's Estes Skywinder | C5-6 | - | Perfect flight up, ejection right at apogee, very short recovery walk |
| 2003-03-09 | Will Borkowski's Estes Skywinder | B6-4 | - | Nice flight up, low powered engine, nose cone came off but helicoptered back. All pieces recovered. |
| 2003-03-16 | Will Borkowski's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | Nice power for this rocket, Delay was way too long for ejection. Needs max of 3 seconds. |
| 2003-04-06 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight. Broke a rotor blade during deployment, rocket landed on it's side, no damage. |
| 2003-04-26 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | AGF |
| 2003-06-07 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Great flight, great rotor deployment, came down rather slowly. No damage. |
| 2003-06-23 | Jeremy Mikkola's Estes Skywinder | C6-6 | - | rocket was launched on small (1.75 acre) field, and went out of sightwas found in next door down... |
| 2003-07-18 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight and recovery. No damage. |
| 2003-10-01 | Fred Jones's Estes Skywinder | D21-4 | - | Rocket screemed off the pad to a nice ejection. Alas, as it began to rotor down the joint between... |
| 2003-10-02 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight. No damage. |
| 2003-10-04 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | AGF Endurance |
| 2003-10-04 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | AGF Endurance |
| 2003-10-04 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | B6-4 | - | AGF Endurance kicked motor |
| 2003-10-11 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Very nice flight. Great recovery within feet of the pad. No damage |
| 2003-10-12 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | S-L-O-W boost, only about 75 feet high. Popped at apogee and rotored down perfectly, landing about... |
| 2003-10-12 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Good boost with some weathercocking. Ejected at apogee and spun nicely down. Good landing. This is... |
| 2003-11-08 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Slow arcing boost. Perfect ejection. All blades opened, and it rotored down nicely, with a bit of... |
| 2004-01-24 | Larry Zeilmann's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nose cone seperated |
| 2004-02-12 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Very nice flight. This rocket is about 10 years old and has 50+ flights on it and it's still... |
| 2004-03-21 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Another great flight of the Skywinder. Nice straight boost, rotor blade deployment and landed... |
| 2004-04-04 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Long slow boost, with slight arc into wind. Helicopter blades opened properly and started spinning... |
| 2004-04-11 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight with a lot of arcing. Recovered without incident. I think I'll only fly this one in... |
| 2004-05-01 | David Logan's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Night Flight. I got some glow stick bracelets, and taped a glow stick to each rotor blade.... |
| 2004-06-26 | David Logan's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice flight, landed 20 feet from pads |
| 2004-06-27 | David Logan's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Good demonstration flier. Close recoveries. |
| 2004-09-05 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Good boost, ejected just past apogee. Good rotor deployment using rubber bands from Cosmic Cobra,... |
| 2004-09-05 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | B6-4 | - | Nice first flight. Not sure what delay to use but it all worked fine. This is a fun rocket! |
| 2004-09-25 | David Logan's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Perfect flight and recovery. Landed about 50 yards from pads. |
| 2004-10-09 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Perfect flight. Helicopter action worked exactly as designed, and landed exactly 3 feet from pad. |
| 2004-10-25 | Patrick Chase's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | with minor repairs this has performed well my blades dont spin at all now that they are glued so... |
| 2004-11-08 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Very nice flight, slight weathercock. Perfect rotor blade deployment and recovery. No damage. |
| 2004-11-13 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Nice gentle arcing boost. Rotor blades opened up nicely at ejection. Rotored down to soft landing... |
| 2004-12-11 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | B6-4 | - | Still a good motor choice for this small park. Landed almost back at pad! |
| 2004-12-11 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Winds died so tried large motor. Man, it was high up there! Everything worked as planned and the... |
| 2005-01-09 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Only had the short delay this time. Still works great. This is a fun rocket! But it could eat up a... |
| 2005-01-09 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | The delay time doesn't seem to matter to this rocket. Actually works better with a longer delay!... |
| 2006-02-10 | Donald Besaw's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Haven't flown this one in awhile. Great flight and recovery. No damage. |
| 2006-03-30 | Richie Brunjes's Estes Skywinder | B6-4 | - | Straight up/Straight down . |
| 2006-08-20 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Arced into wind shortly after leaving rod. Good rotor deployment. Axial coning during descent. ... |
| 2006-09-24 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Slow straight boost, leaning over flat at apogee. Clean rotor deployment. Gentle landing on... |
| 2007-02-10 | Richard Stephens's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | Two identical flights: Straight ascents with gradual arc. Perfect blade deployments with gradual... |
| 2007-02-24 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | C5-3 | - | Good engine for this one. Straight flight considering the wind. Came down within 200' of the pad. |
| 2007-06-15 | Matt Gillard's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | another good flight, a B is a little under power, will stick with c6-3 from now on |
| 2007-06-15 | Matt Gillard's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | great flight - really nice slow decent. |
| 2007-06-16 | Matt Gillard's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | good rotation. |
| 2007-09-02 | Matt Gillard's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | arched boost into winds, hard landing, some repairs needed. |
| 2007-09-02 | Matt Gillard's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | squirrel boost, caught it before in landed, a good 80m drift due to winds |
| 2007-09-02 | Matt Gillard's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | strong winds but performed well. |
| 2007-11-04 | Ron Mahinske's Estes Skywinder | D21-7 | - | Went up about 700'. Ejection charge blew the nose cone and sliding piece off the body tube. Fell... |
| 2007-11-23 | Geoffrey Kerbel's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | This seems to be the best engine for this rocket. Good height but not enough to overfly a small... |
| 2009-02-15 | Todd Mullin's Estes Skywinder | C6-5 | - | Nose cone came loose. Airframe and cone hit hard, no auto-rotation. Need to replace bodytube. |
| 2009-02-15 | Howard Smart's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | |
| 2009-02-28 | Howard Smart's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Major weather cocking. This worked well for the helicopter recovery. |
| 2009-02-28 | Howard Smart's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Straight flight. Crowd pleaser. |
| 2009-05-23 | Bob Cox's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | New Chinese Quest motors give long hissing boost. Rotors deployed just past apogee. Safe landing... |
2009-06-13  | John Lee's Estes Skywinder | B4-2 | - | Underpowered. Blades deployed in the nick of time and recovered safely. |
| 2009-06-13 | John Lee's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Great flight |
| 2009-07-19 | John Lee's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | Good demo flight |
| 2009-11-28 | Matthew Bond's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | First Flight! Nice smooth boost, just past apogee, nose down at ejection. Good deployment of all... |
| 2010-09-19 | Tim Fischer's Estes Skywinder | C6-3 | - | This rocket never fails to impress. Perfect flight today, hitting some bleachers on the landing... |
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