Tonight on YORF I read a post from Doug Sams.He was talking about water rockets from a company called Park Plastics.
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He mentioned a great website where you can look up old Sears Catalogs:
http://www.wishbookweb.com/
I thought I'd check and found the 1969 Sears Wishbook Christmas catalog.
Here's the first rocket I ever owned, the Vashon Valkyrie 2. It was ordered from Sears through the same catalog.
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If you've read my bio, you know of the trouble I had getting black powder engines in California.
This rocket did fly, but not to the altitude advertised. You had to launch Vashon rockets in warm weather. I got the Valkyrie for Christmas and tried to launch it 40 degree weather!
It got 50 feet in the air, tail slid and dug itself into the ground.
Shortly after I got black powder engines.
A few years later, I flew a Estes Coldpower Convertible Shark with better results.
An uncle gave me the Visible V-8 and Visible Chassis kits one year. Shiftable manual transmission along with working steering and brakes. I really wish I still had that!
ReplyDeleteHi Bill,
ReplyDeleteI never had the Visible V-8 but built too many other plastic models in the 1960s. Then I discovered rocketry in 1969 and everything changed.