The Mercury Deadstone takes to the air!
Followed by my Richter Recker on a triplet of D12-5 motors.
Steve Lubliner shows off his very unique helicopter model
A close up shows the internal piston and rail assembly that makes this model work
Jack's Tres takes to the air again
A perfect flight, but a less than perfect landing as Jack slowly approaches the model.
Gleda and Vern Estes relax at our booth as Bob Alway chats away.
Another A.C.M.E. Spitfire on the pad!
Vern Estes launches my Sprint'73 on her 421st flight. I missed the launch picture though!
Another shot of my FarScape proto. This model attracted a whole lot of attention at NARAM
Gleda Estes with Scott Brance and Glen Avaler take a rest in our booth. We have gone out of our way to make our booth a comfortable place to sit and rest. It is nice to see that it is seen and used that way. Glen is a buddy of mine whom I had lost touch with since the days of NEMROC. It was a joy to finally get to meet him again. Same with Scott for that matter. Too long between visits!
At the Vendor Forum, Bill Saindon of BMS presents his company and product
Next is Bob Edmonds. A very passionate speaker with a love of the hobby
Next up would be your's truely. It was fun to participate and show off our newest kits and describe new products coming up in the future.
Doug Pratt kept everybody's attention with his fine products
Vern admires the FarScape on the FlisKits table after the Vendor forum.
If this isn't the best reason for rocketry, I don't know what is. Kids and rockets. Rockets and kids. It's just so Christmas! :)
Bar none, the most unusual modification I have ever seen to a Rhino kit! A single fin, shaped like 1/2 of a CD, attached at an angle, one side only....
And it turned in a PERFECT flight. Incredible!
Here is a good shot showing the fin. Understand, this is the ONLY fin. There is NO fin on the other side!
And now it gets interesting... Scott Branche showed up at our booth with these exquisite models, each one with its own type of imaging payload from live-feed video to digital imaging. He was testing them and needed a base of operations. I swear that the yellow live video rocket was ALWAY pointed at me and Kathy.... LOL
Another of the camera rockets brought over by Scott. Possible new product from Quest? Things that make you go "hhmmmm"
See!??! We move, and I *swear* that yellow rocket moved to follow us...
Bill Stine, on the cell phone with Scott (who is back at our booth with the receiver and monitor) switching on the video camera. (see the Quest connection?? :) )
Bill verifies that Scott has a good image before having the countdown begun
And LIFTOFF! A beautiful flight. I was out at the range photographing this flight. For another flight, I stayed back at the booth so that I could see the live video feed.
Perfect recovery too. Simply beautiful models.
And down for a perfect touchdown in the soft grass
Ok, if this isn't like something right out of Roswell, I don't know what is! One of the many PMC (Plastic Model Conversion) models flown
Another PMC turns in a perfect flight.
A beautifully detailed Honest John takes to the air
The Alway brother prep their Saturn C1 for flight
What a BEAUTIFUL sight to see this beast take to the air!
A beautifully detailed Little Joe gets lowered into her tower launcher
Another PMC entry, simply incredible detail on this model!
The Little Joe resting inside her tower of guide tubes.
The jet takes to the air. A beautiful launch, but not so the flight. Right after clearing the launch rod, she arced over and power augered into the ground. When she hit, on the far side of the launch area, all you could see were dozens of little white missiles popping into the air, like a pop-corn maker gone mad. ick.
The Little Joe puts in a great flight!
Mike with his PMC entry. This one also power pranged. ick again!
Another great launch shot of a PMC jet. very cool
A smaller scale Little Joe takes to the air.
A sounding rocket boosts straight and true
The gangs all here! From left to right, Kathy Flis, me, Carl McLawhorn, Vern Estes, Gleda Estes and Sheryl McLawhorn
Sheryl and Kathy fight off the chill in the air
Scott shows us all what happens if we don't get our daily fix of rocketry!
(MAN, get to a dentist buddy! LOL)
One of several folks excited to have won a FlisKits at the drawing during dinner on the last night of NARAM
Bob Kaplow describes and awards the prang trophy of the week.
Gleda and Vern give a warm message to all attendees.