We had a small rocket club. I wanted to name it...NASA.. Stood for...Neighborhood Aeronautics & Space Admin. But even the other guys thought it was too 'nerdy'.
I just did my first Estes rocket and I knew it was going to go 575 feet in the air but when it did it just gave a whole different feeling. I have a 1,100 feet rocket that I will be launching.
I started in 73 or 74 myself. Had the Mercury Redstone and dreamed of the Saturn. Never got it though. Also, I think I had one called the Patriot if I remember right. Recall it being one of the bigger Estes models. It was a blast. Remember being so excited getting the catalog in the mail.
As a kid I must have launched 20+ different estes rockets. I don't think I ever got one back intact! They blew away,caught fire, or crashes and broke because the chute didn't open. I did however stay out of trouble!
Great feeling of accomplishment for a kid. In elementary school we had a rocket club. They would powder the launch rod with talcum powder for smooth launches, great video..
Great job, I always us the smallest motors possible that way it comes right back to you and it doesn't float away. Also the little kids get to join in and they have a ball. When I was Committee chair for the cub scouts I bought the organization package and we had group launches. I continued to tell the dad's small motors. SMALL!!! Well they wanted to be a big hero motor dad!!! Guess what a bunch of lost rockets and sad boys, lol
Hello Paul, you guys did a great job on that rocket! May I use the footage (from your launch only) as apart of my model rocket workshop for certified teachers?
great launch.... I did my first successful launch yesterday (not posted) in the snow with my daughters. we used a C class engine. which one did you use?
What the hell happened to Estes Rockets??? When I was a kid 50 years ago those rockets went WAY higher than they do now. Even with the lesser powered engines. Most of the rockets I had went so high you could barely see them even after the parachute would open. Well another case of everything being better back then but at the time we didn't know it.
Any model rocket that can be recovered and has not sustained serious damage can be re-used. I have one here that's flown for well over 15 times, and I don't think that's a record.
Use a recommend solar igniter in the engine, keep it in with a tiny ball of parachute wadding, or round tape disc, attach micro clips from launch control to the two wires coming from the igniter, press launch button on controller . That sends DC voltage to light the road igniter, launches nearly every time
I remember trying to do a cheaper DIY rocket from a obviously-not-light-enough mailing tube. Went up slowly about ten feet and fell back down. No Elon Musk future for me!
How the Red Hair Banging Rumour got Started about Sputnik! Sputnik and the Runaway Press. Sputnik What really Happen by the inventor~Paul Gibson an American Juvenile Backyard Rocket Scientist! For my first birthday, I got 3 money gifts each about $3,000.00 my blue eye mother said I can spend it on anything I wanted, since I discovered a propellent thruster not the typical rocket fuel that burns at thousands of degrees fahrenheit but at room temperature with enough must to gain space altitude just leaving a white plum of smoke in it wake. I had already made the first PLG Parallel Light Generation or nowadays called laser from other infringements. I wanted to put up a satellite, she said ok, I tried military contractors for help, but they laughed their heads off told me to come back when I'm 18 thought about it was too long of a wait for my ambition. So, I went to 3 different custom toy companies each one would not know the other and just what they were making on this was a top-secret invention! So, one toy company I ask for a fuselage told him the parameters. They came back with some turkey cooking pot that was a big let down for me. Well to my back yard in Sugar House, Zootah a successful launch. Sometime later turmoil rotten stuff happen became an orphan and about 2 years later found myself in Scottsdale, Arizona there with my hands controls repositioned my satellite front yard 2 cars pull up. One identified himself as a marine from Camp Pendleton, California, tracking down the first radio signal from space! The other two news reporters. He then ask what do I have in my hands and what am I'm doing? I answered repositioning my rusty old satellite. Then took a sip of a refreshment drink of Kool-Aid. He screams to the 2 reporters: RUSSIAN OWNED SATELLITE! QUICK GET IT ON RADIO NEWS BROADCAST! That made me burst into a laugh when I was just swallowing choke on the drink spilled down my neck as I wipe my neck with back of my hand I mumble got spit on neck. The marine then screams to the reporters: RUSSIAN OWNED SATELLITE NAMED SPUTNIK QUICK GET IT OUT ON THE NEWS BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS I don't know maybe atomic blast or a war or space aliens..... Two weeks later black limousines pull up in front yard from the Russian Embassy they begin yelling screaming at me. Warmonger! one IDs himself as a KGB Agent pulls his pistol out waves it at me, trying to start WW III, huh, in my country you try this we take you out and tie you to a tree just shoot you no trial and no talk! Well, I began to cry and said why is it so horrible to be accused of a fantastic scientific accomplishment and it's mine, not yours and I told you about the dumb marine who misquoted my words. That cool the hot discussion they left. Sometime later I got a private invite from Khrushchev to visit the Kremlin in Russia to be seen who the new world troublemaker is threatening Russia with WW III and I so did go to Russia for interviews and conferences with him and top generals on my views of starting WW III by new technology first time seen!
Good start. That's how I started
Wtf
Lmaooooo
Hilarious!!!
I thought you were the president not watching UA-cam all day
Let your people free. U will be a legend and Hero
This was one of my favorite things to do with my dad growing up, brings back memories
I know what you mean! I remember my first time: rocket ended up in a tree.
Nice, and nice that you had this when you were kid. We had only fireworks :)
I remember mine too! And now I bought my grandsons rockets!
Man that was great, love those things, good memories. Thank you grandma for a rocket and not socks!
I remember my first Estes rocket and launch, magical!
We had a small rocket club. I wanted to name it...NASA..
Stood for...Neighborhood Aeronautics & Space Admin.
But even the other guys thought it was too 'nerdy'.
@@MrGchiasson , excellent idea, in my book, Too bad they couldn’t see the brilliance!
@@s9523pink hmm..SpaceX would have been good too.
I remember mine too, mine got stuck in a tree😂
been doing this since i was a kid in the 70's with my olders brothers.....still fun as hell in 2022
I just did my first Estes rocket and I knew it was going to go 575 feet in the air but when it did it just gave a whole different feeling. I have a 1,100 feet rocket that I will be launching.
I started estes rockets in 74, and I was hooked, been doing it ever since.
I started in 73 or 74 myself. Had the Mercury Redstone and dreamed of the Saturn. Never got it though. Also, I think I had one called the Patriot if I remember right. Recall it being one of the bigger Estes models. It was a blast. Remember being so excited getting the catalog in the mail.
Very cool. Brings back este memories of my own.
My first rocket was an Estes Astron Alpha in 1968.
The good old days!
Mine was the Alpha III, but a bit later (think it was in '89)
Exciting! It did its roll over after launch and came home to the pad. Nice job.
So awesome! I’m taking my six year old step-daughter out tomorrow to do her first.
How did it go? Did she love it. I'm taking my 8 yr old daughter next weekend first time.
@@iron6463 how did your launch go? Iam taking my grandsons tomorrow!
@@joeestes8114 great thanks we went again today. Built a new rocket after the first one failed parachute. But so much fun. Good luck 👍 and have fun.
My first Estes launch went amazing. Worked great and went the advertised 1000+ feet.
We had an SR-71 rocket when I was a kid. Coolest rocket ever!
I have a picnic kit for the kids. Rockets and kites. If the wind is blowing we fly kites, if there is no wind we launch rockets. Always fun.
Good Flight! An important day in a young man's life.
THAT WAS GREAT!!! GOD BLESS.
Great video, and just nice to see. Thanks and good work.
As a kid I must have launched 20+ different estes rockets. I don't think I ever got one back intact! They blew away,caught fire, or crashes and broke because the chute didn't open. I did however stay out of trouble!
Damn.
I remember doing same in late 60s. Brings back memories.
That's a better present than socks!
We used some low power motors for the first few test flights and angled the launch into the wind to ensure recovery.
which rocket kit was this, if you know
Great feeling of accomplishment for a kid. In elementary school we had a rocket club. They would powder the launch rod with talcum powder for smooth launches, great video..
Nice! plus not walking around so much to pick it up! lol
Cheers!
Ed
So flipping cool!
Great launch!
How time flies... This kid is adult now...
Awesome Video!
Great launch
Same here! That's how I started!!
add another one to the list of people who love to watch things fly!
Nice job!
Love the slo-mo part. Next up: put wings on that thing!
Great to watch... ,, ,,, :) hoping for the best
Now that is a Great Launch
Great job, I always us the smallest motors possible that way it comes right back to you and it doesn't float away. Also the little kids get to join in and they have a ball.
When I was Committee chair for the cub scouts I bought the organization package and we had group launches.
I continued to tell the dad's small motors. SMALL!!! Well they wanted to be a big hero motor dad!!! Guess what a bunch of lost rockets and sad boys, lol
Nice job casey!
what a poorly lit cheap video. Insanely fun. Brings back great memories. Screw it! I'm subscribing!!!
I love the spacex logo in the title card
Hello Paul, you guys did a great job on that rocket! May I use the footage (from your launch only) as apart of my model rocket workshop for certified teachers?
Yes you may!
Thank you! I will be sure to give you credit!
Good dad.
Looks like an old Helicat, 1998, but without the helicopter nose cone that I brought when I became a BAR in 1998.
awesome! what size engine a/b/c, did you use? thank u.
it's called a motor not an engine, an engine has moving parts
You’re a great dad 😎
thank you
Me, and my brother 50 years ago.
50 years ago me and my twin brother were launching as well!
Thank you for the video….imma gonna get one of these 😃
great launch.... I did my first successful launch yesterday (not posted) in the snow with my daughters. we used a C class engine. which one did you use?
it's called a motor not an engine, an engine has moving parts
@@daft9816 thanks
this is inspiring
in the netherlands you need a special license to launch 1 of these.
My daughter had her first rocket at a similar age, 7 if it recall correctly .
I'm getting all three of my grandsons into rocketry
*Good job cutie your doing very good!*
were you able to use it again?
0:50 was a good angle
How do I get the clips to the rocket motor to not slow down and mess up the take off?
Do you Recommend Estes
Do you know what kind it was and how expensive
My brother and I launched rockets in the late ‘70s.
Who would have thought this would be in a math homework
What the hell happened to Estes Rockets??? When I was a kid 50 years ago those rockets went WAY higher than they do now. Even with the lesser powered engines. Most of the rockets I had went so high you could barely see them even after the parachute would open. Well another case of everything being better back then but at the time we didn't know it.
Kids a pro awesome 🤙
Im thinking of getting my three year old one
did one of these with my dad in the park when i was a kid, it never came down and we never found it lmao
Awesome kiddo
good times
Me and my friend would make homemade rockets and use these motors..... it was a very mixed success rate lol
Does it ever go too far away and get stuck in trees
If the wind is blowing hard, yes
Can you re use it?
Any model rocket that can be recovered and has not sustained serious damage can be re-used. I have one here that's flown for well over 15 times, and I don't think that's a record.
This reminds me of my Estes 'Astron Alpha' launch back in 66'.
Good job! Call Elon Musk in a few years...build the big ones.
WOW
👍👍👍👍
Future rocket scientist ?
I want to do that
Wie mein erster Start
I'm trying to shoot mine but it's not working. No idea what I'm doing wrong.
Same here, maybe cold weather? Using a sparkler worked for me, though that can mess up your angle
Use a recommend solar igniter in the engine, keep it in with a tiny ball of parachute wadding, or round tape disc, attach micro clips from launch control to the two wires coming from the igniter, press launch button on controller . That sends DC voltage to light the road igniter, launches nearly every time
Typo: sends voltage to the igniter, makes it burn, starting the engine. Launches nearly every time
I was i started this hobby in his age
Needs gyros for a straight vertical launch!
0:45
I never saw my rockets again about 70% of the time. ;)
We put a hole in the top of the parachute to speed descent
Back when toys were educational.
I remember trying to do a cheaper DIY rocket from a obviously-not-light-enough mailing tube. Went up slowly about ten feet and fell back down. No Elon Musk future for me!
How the Red Hair Banging Rumour got Started about Sputnik!
Sputnik and the Runaway Press.
Sputnik What really Happen by the inventor~Paul Gibson an American Juvenile Backyard Rocket Scientist!
For my first birthday, I got 3 money gifts each about $3,000.00 my blue eye mother said I can spend it on anything I wanted, since I discovered a propellent thruster not the typical rocket fuel that burns at thousands of degrees fahrenheit but at room temperature with enough must to gain space altitude just leaving a white plum of smoke in it wake.
I had already made the first PLG Parallel Light Generation or nowadays called laser from other infringements.
I wanted to put up a satellite, she said ok, I tried military contractors for help, but they laughed their heads off told me to come back when I'm 18 thought about it was too long of a wait for my ambition.
So, I went to 3 different custom toy companies each one would not know the other and just what they were making on this was a top-secret invention!
So, one toy company I ask for a fuselage told him the parameters. They came back with some turkey cooking pot that was a big let down for me.
Well to my back yard in Sugar House, Zootah a successful launch. Sometime later turmoil rotten stuff happen became an orphan and about 2 years later found myself in Scottsdale, Arizona there with my hands controls repositioned my satellite front yard 2 cars pull up.
One identified himself as a marine from Camp Pendleton, California, tracking down the first radio signal from space! The other two news reporters. He then ask what do I have in my hands and what am I'm doing?
I answered repositioning my rusty old satellite. Then took a sip of a refreshment drink of Kool-Aid.
He screams to the 2 reporters:
RUSSIAN OWNED SATELLITE!
QUICK GET IT ON RADIO NEWS BROADCAST!
That made me burst into a laugh when I was just swallowing choke on the drink spilled down my neck as I wipe my neck with back of my hand I mumble got spit on neck.
The marine then screams to the reporters:
RUSSIAN OWNED SATELLITE NAMED SPUTNIK QUICK GET IT OUT ON THE NEWS BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS I don't know maybe atomic blast or a war or space aliens.....
Two weeks later black limousines pull up in front yard from the Russian Embassy they begin yelling screaming at me.
Warmonger! one IDs himself as a KGB Agent pulls his pistol out waves it at me, trying to start WW III, huh, in my country you try this we take you out and tie you to a tree just shoot you no trial and no talk!
Well, I began to cry and said why is it so horrible to be accused of a fantastic scientific accomplishment and it's mine, not yours and I told you about the dumb marine who misquoted my words.
That cool the hot discussion they left.
Sometime later I got a private invite from Khrushchev to visit the Kremlin in Russia to be seen who the new world troublemaker is threatening Russia with WW III and I so did go to Russia for interviews and conferences with him and top generals on my views of starting WW III by new technology first time seen!
I only watch youngsters do things...
adults are boring.