Thursday, August 5, 2010

Epic Michael's Win, work on Terrier Orion

Yesterday when I was looking around Michael's, I sadly found out that they were getting rid of their rocket stuff, and all they had left were a few kits, one of them being the Super Neon, marked down to $6, an excellent deal! Looks like a cool kit, and I already finished the motor mount. I just put the first few fins on the Terrier Orion, and already glued in the motor mount and all that. I plan on flying it before the end of this month, probably without the final paint job, which is in the actual rocket shown below. I'm looking forward to flying it!
                        

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Thinking Out Loud: Quest Terrier-Orion plus Estes Tomahawk Cruise Missile Frame grab

This is a kit that I got a long time ago (when dinosaurs ruled the Earth) and, upon opening it today, looks like a very cool kit, and one of my first scale kits. (I have only three scale rockets out of forty-odd, including this one!) I'm looking forward to building it! This would be a good rocket to use all of my Estes C6-3s up on, I have a ton of them from Blastoff Flight Packs!

Photos by Todd Mullin and Brian Ray respectively, left to right.


This is a cropped frame grab of an Estes Tomahawk Cruise Missile on an A10 in a field by my house which was taken by a micro keychain video camera attached to one of the pad legs. It's an excellent camera, is very compact and cheap, and takes 640x480 video. And, with a 4-gig microSD card, it can take over 50 minutes of video nonstop.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Welcome to D.B. Aerospace!

Welcome to the D.B. Aerospace blog, where I blog about my model rocketry adventures and misadventures, write about model rocketry news or interesting facts about model rocketry, post pictures and videos of model rocketry, and discuss any other rocketry stuff worth blogging about!