Three New Rockets For Launch Day

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I start out with basically the Star Trooper. Now, this one is an interesting kit because it's very simple and I used it for some experimentation.

[00:00:08]This one you can see I added an external engine clip. It sometimes wobbles around a little bit as does this one. This one I just changed the fins around a little bit, but again I think that the external engine clip causes it to wobble a little bit because of the weight and the air disruption. Another little project I did was to put two of them together to make this tall Star Trooper. This was a fun build. This one flies perfectly. No problems with this one. So, what I did is I had one more kit left. I figured well, I might as well build this exactly the way the instructions says and that's this one. So, this is going to be a fun little rocket to launch. It's no changes. I'm going to fly it exactly as specified. It's a 7 in long. So, an A34T is going to make this one go incredibly high. I did manage to squeeze into it an 8 ft uh streamer. So, otherwise I would never see it again. Another rocket is this Flutterbye. This is a very unusual rocket and an odd rocket. And we can see when the ejection charge goes off, the two pieces separate. There's two fins on the top and there's two fins on the bottom.

[00:01:05]And what's interesting about this rocket is that I put a Kevlar cord in between the two and that will keep the two pieces together. Otherwise, I can't chase both pieces at the same time. What's also interesting about this kit is that I didn't realize it, but this kit is actually um not in production anymore.

[00:01:19]So, I got this at the conference, the the Nerf Con, the Northern Illinois Rocket Convention as one of the prizes and uh somebody apparently parted with it, but this is a a vintage kit and it's not in production anymore. So, really looking forward to launching this on a B64.

[00:01:35]Now, this rocket is an existing rocket.

[00:01:38]I call it Talos from Jason and the Argonauts. It's a 24 mm rocket. I flew it at the Hughes Farm. It goes extremely high. It's a very very nice design. So, I decided to make a smaller version of this rocket. So, now I have the 24 mm rocket on the right and on the left I have the new rocket and this one is an 18 mm rocket.

[00:01:56]I'm going to put this up on a C65.

[00:01:59]This one I did some special changes to the recovery system.

[00:02:02]On the recovery system I decided to remove the Kevlar blanket in order to provide me with more room for the streamer. I put an actual 30-ft streamer in here. So, this one should be really really nice. I can hardly wait to launch it. So, looking forward to a good launch day on Saturday.