Rocketeer's Corner

Rocketeer's Corner Posts

Sport Rocketry / Plastic Model Conversion (PMC)

Working on Team Redstone... (2018-11-13)

My rocket ADD kicked in again, flaring up due to my seeing a lot of photos of models of Mercury Redstones, Gemini Titans, and Saturns recently. The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 is coming up, so I ... [Read More]

Captain, she's on fire! (2016-07-25)

The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) hosts two big launches every year - the National Sport Launch (NSL) at the end of spring and NARAM in the summer. NSL is what we call a "fun fly"; ... [Read More]

A question of supply... (2020-11-08)

Estes Yankee Clipper (Click to enlarge). I have been making good progress finishing off builds that have languished for months. This year's 4th of July rocket, the Yankee Clipper, is finally done, ... [Read More]

A perfect day for flying... (2020-11-15)

Flyers begin to assemble for the pre-launch briefing (Click to enlarge). Yesterday HARA had its first launch of the 2020-2021 season - the skies were clear and blue, the winds relatively tame and ... [Read More]

Finishing off some builds (2022-01-22)

As the pandemic wore on and my motivation waned, three unfinished rockets - a Boyce Aerospace Redstone missile, a Skylance from an Estes rocket plan and a Glencoe Jupiter-C plastic model conversion ... [Read More]