Which toys would you have asked Santa for?
I was born in 1958 which made me 2 to 11 years old in the sixties, the perfect age for these Christmas toys. Many homes in America had a Sears catalog with pages that had been dog-eared in hopes of receiving a toy from that very page. Barbie was 1 year old in 1960 and all the girls wanted one. The Ken doll was released by Mattel in 1961.
B14-0 Cato’s on staged flight of an Estes Drifter
We got together for a rocket launch on this beautiful Saturday afternoon. It was pretty hot but the wind wasn’t as bad as it had been at the last couple of launches. The guys got three new Astocam videos that I’ll post below.
Gusts up to 40 MPH
What a beautiful day, for early March, with a high temperature of 79 degrees F. The wind was a different story. According to theweather.net, the winds were a constant 10 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. We had a challenge, used a lot of streamers, and had a great day as usual.
Not a cloud in the sky.
Beautiful day, blue sky with high temperature at 58 degrees F. The negative was the winds, about 10-15MPH steady all day with some 25MPH gusts. We adjusted our launches and everything went pretty well. A few high flights required streamers though.
Beautiful sky, great launch
Another great day flying rockets, first launch this year. It was windy and cold, 10mph steady breeze and 40 degrees F. The sky was cloudless. We had a couple of more launches that I did not get a photo of; Kevin’s PML Bullpup on a Loki G66, and my Estes Big Dawg on a C6-5.
Another beautiful day, especially the temperature which was around 70 degrees. It was pretty cloudy when we started and got sunnier all day. The wind was light, steady and didn’t cause us any issues. Another fun day launching rockets.
Had some chuffs, bad ignitors, battery issues, CATOs and lawn darts.
It’s been a while since we’d got together for a launch, 07/03/21 was the last. Lots of rain and scheduling conflicts but it all worked out this weekend. It was in the low 80’s and overcast, for the first 2/3 of the launch, but the winds were mostly calm and we had fun.
The 4th of July, holiday weekend, was a great time to be launching rockets. The temperature was in the mid 80’s, with the humidity lower than normal, making the breeze feel great in the shade. The winds were not to bad and we had a great time as always.
Beautiful day, humid, 85 degrees with hardly any wind. There were some dark clouds, later in the day, and it started to sprinkle around 3:45. We had another great day flying rockets.
What a beautiful day, blue skies with puffy white clouds and about 76 degrees. The wind varied from nothing to some hard gusts occasionally, but caused us no issues. We had a great time as usual.
