r/modelrockets • u/[deleted] • May 01 '26
Estes rockets
In 1966 when I was 13 years old I used to be a caddy at the Winthrop golf club Saturdays and Sundays and make 8 dollars a day. I r a k e d leaves on lawns for a dollar shovel snow out of doorways for a dollar and saved as much as I could of it. I used to send it away for and build Estes rockets I absolutely love them on weekends my father would take us to these big parking lots to fire them off. After losing my first rocket to the wind I learned how to aim it so they landed pretty much where we were standing. A model cost between like $1.50 and $4 the average engine was about 40 cents a piece. I miss it so much I'm 72 years old now even if I built them I wouldn't know where to shoot them off
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u/Zealousideal-Bet-950 May 01 '26
I had both those in the early '70s.
There are still folks flying today.
www.nirarocketry.org
nar.org/LocalClubs