Thumbing through a 2022 Estes rocketry catalog

[Gyrofrog]

@simonize

even a ½A would end up on a roof or somebody’s back yard

I’m not surprised!

Model rocket pioneer, Vern Estes, celebrates his 90th birthday

We saw this happen with a mini-engine (i.e. a 1/2 A-something). The fellow rocketeer’s dad figured it wouldn’t amount to much, and it would be a good rocket to try for a first launch. I suggested that he might be surprised: sure the engine was small, but the rocket itself as about the size of a bubble tea straw. Sure enough we never saw it again…