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    Launch model rockets with no guide rail to see which way they would go. Built one into a PVC tube like a bazooka!
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    Quote Originally Posted by K4PIH View Post
    Launch model rockets with no guide rail to see which way they would go. Built one into a PVC tube like a bazooka!
    Did some nutty things with model rockets including building one that looked like the Star Trek Enterprise straight from the kit. Last time I launched it, it went up then did 3 huge loops to the east at about 80 off the ground before it slammed into the ground. Just wasn't a good platform for a rocket by the 3rd flight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    Did some nutty things with model rockets including building one that looked like the Star Trek Enterprise straight from the kit. Last time I launched it, it went up then did 3 huge loops to the east at about 80 off the ground before it slammed into the ground. Just wasn't a good platform for a rocket by the 3rd flight.
    I built a rocket with huge fins, thinking it didn't need a guide rail once it took off. Problem was I didn't have the electric igniter to set if t off. I convinced my fellow criminal to do a belly crawl and put a fire cracker fuse up the engine and light it with a match. He dutifully carried out my wish but after lighting the fuse he spun around to belly crawl away and of course the rocket took off and headed directly for his butt crack!

    I thought I'd never outrun him!
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    Quote Originally Posted by K4PIH View Post
    Launch model rockets with no guide rail to see which way they would go. Built one into a PVC tube like a bazooka!
    Did that as well. Used to go to one of the local stores and buy bottles of black powder and pack them full. We also used to make pipe bombs. Still amazed that I never blew myself up.
    I am surprised at such a sudden deterioration in a woman whose only ailment was a lazy anus.

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