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 Rocketry Product: Estes - Big Bertha {Kit} (1948, 23, 7007)

Rocket N00b: 2016 Rocketry To-Do List (2016-01-02)

I walked into the Rocket Room today, and it hit me that I hadn't touched anything in there in maybe a week or more. The sun was streaming in through the windows, and it looks like my girlfriend ... [Read More]

Rocket N00b: Built from Scratch - A Tale of Two Berthas - Part 1 (2018-11-15)

I recently finished building two Big Bertha rockets - from scratch, rather than from kits. As a guide, I used the original plans, published by Estes in Model Rocket News in 1963 , when Bertha was ... [Read More]

Rocket N00b: Built from Scratch - A Tale of Two Berthas - Part 2 (The Plan) (2019-01-11)

Click here for Part 1 Scanned, downloadable PDF files of The Model Rocket News can be found in a few places around the Internet. There are probably a few missing, and I don't know that any one ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Old Big Bertha Instructions (2019-07-27)

A blog comment made mention of the Big Bertha nose cone. The shape and length have changed over the years. The old balsa BNC-60L nose cone had 3 1/8"exposed above the body tube edge. It was longer ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: More on the rockets that launched the microcomputer revolution (2010-01-02)

In this month's edition of the Citizen Scientist , Forrest Mims III provides more details about his early rocket experiments in Vietnam in 1967 .  His experiments sound impressive and the ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Mega Review: Component Reviews (2011-01-13)

This is an aggregation of all my old EMRR reviews of miscellaneous components: Giant Leap Rocketry - Honeycomb Composite Fins Giant Leap Rocketry - Slimline Retainer (38mm) Hartle Engineering - Solid ... [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: A tragic weekend... (2015-11-16)

This weekend was tragic... Not only for the horrible events in France, which are beyond belief, but also for an accident some deemed inevitable, but yet took over 55 years to occur... A scout leader ... [Read More]