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Thrifty Rocketeer: Balsa fin excess (2020-01-14)

The Thrifty Rocketeer continues... OK, here's where this blog earns its name... "The Thrifty Rocketeer"! For several years, I have been puzzling over an aspect of model rocket kits that confounded ... [Read More]

Model Rocket Building: Estes Kit Balsa Thickness? (2020-03-15)

I was doing some research into some old Estes Design of the Month builds. Occasionally you run into a confusing part catalog number. Today it was fin stock thickness. Like the Estes body tubes - ... [Read More]