Thanks for the feedback. If I could do it all over again, I would have used a different camera angle. At some point I will do a couple more build videos and I'm keeping in mind all the suggestions so its an easier watch.
Back when I was into Estes rocketry we didn't have all your simplified easy, peasy things in the kits. We had to make about everything including the fins and nose cones. We got plain cardboard tubes and learned to shape the fins and how to mount them. Made our parachutes and had to use "flameproofed" tissue paper to protect them from the expulsion charge. It is so easy nowadays...guess the artistry of doing it yourself is long gone.
I remember hearing about the early days. When I started in the 80s, we had pre-made tubes, plastic nose cones, and "die-crushed" fins. So I missed out on the real, real craftmanship part, but at least got in before the super simple plastic part. I did build one from a Christmas wrapping paper roll and cardboard and whatnot I found around the house. It didn't fly great, but it flew! In fact, my Level 1 certification rocket was scratch-built from 3" mailer tubes, thin plywood for fins, and a nose cone made from wooden coffee stir sticks bent and glued into a nosecone shape. I have 2 old kits from the 80s, never opened, that I want to sit down and enjoy building. Enjoying the build is a real part of the hobby, especially during winter. I can also see where some people don't have the skillset built quite yet and need to start out simple.
@@Malikot3 yeah you gotta hit those hot points and wrap it up son. Nobody has time for this video. I didnt thumbs down just left this comment to get you to tighten it WAY up. How many people like me you snoozed into oblivion. There should be a support group. Good Gawd.
@@Pcamacho911 Its simple. Skip forward to the part you need to see. Have you figured that part of RU-vid out yet? I make $0 from these videos. Nothing. I'm not a RU-vidr. I posted a long form video as some people prefer that. The rest can skip to whatever. I made this video 8 YEARS ago. GOOD GAWD yourself. Seriously. What kind of entitled brat complains on an 8 year old video that someone made for free to help some people out? I suggest you go watch Skibidi toilet videos as thats more your style apparently
Paint the Estes Mosquito with reflective paint or coat with reflective aluminum duct tape and you will be able to track with the most powerful 13mm motor they make. I did and still have my first one from back in the 1980's.❤
The Alpha III is a piece of cake. I started with the original Alpha back in 1972. Balsa nose cone and fins. The fins had to be cut out, sanded, and glued to the body tube. Everything had to be sanded and painted. After spending a week building it, I lost it on the third or fourth flight. I am now trying to get my 10 year old grandson into model rocketry. But things have changed. I grew up on a farm, and had plenty of space to launch rockets. Now you have to drive over 50 miles to a place where you can launch, then 50 miles back. The price of gas makes it an expensive hobby. I use a Harbor Freight digital caliper to measure things. I use Elmers glue. Carpenters glue doesn't come in a bottle with a pinpoint tip like Elmers white glue does. It the same glue. You need that tip to make fillets for fins and launch lugs. If you really wanted to use carpenters glue, I suppose you could fill an Elmers white glue bottle with it. A slight curve in the plastic fins won't hurt anything. Very important not to get any glue inside the launch rod lug. If it dries in there the rod won't go through it, and you can destroy the lug trying to get it out. Having a damp rag nearby to clean glue off your fingers is very helpful. I have cut out the center of the parachute before, it can help, but it increases decent speed slightly, which can actually be a good thing on a small rocket, it won't drift as far. I mostly use nylon parachutes now. I put baby powder on plastic parachutes before launch to keep them from sticking together. A small wooden dowel can help push the parachute, wadding, and shock cord down into the body tube. I rarely ever build a rocket from a kit anymore, I design my own. I'm not concerned about what they look like. I paint all my rockets orange and white, to make them easier to see, both in the air and on the ground.
I always had the same problem with the Astron Streak in my early years of rocketry. Even using a 1/4A engine. Whoosh! Gone. Even if you could see it,when the ejection charge kicked it would vanish.
I can imagine this making it to a World for *Kingdom Hearts* Along with *The Black Cauldron* *John Carter* *The Lone Ranger* *Prince of Persia* *Moana*
About 40 years ago, I was in elementary school, and we had movie days every once in a while. They actually showed that movie. I was like 8! Good lord, I'll never trust a red robot!
I built the Mosquito in 1975, my very first rocket. Mine was painted sky blue with a red nose cone and one red fin. Launched it with my older brothers that were all launching their Mini-Berthas, X-Rays, Honest Johns, and Mars Landers. I launched it on an A3-4T. Clear perfect day, just like this video, but we could not find it. Went back to the park several hours later with my Dad and we miraculously found it before the high school football team started practicing on the field!
I heard people saying they were traumatized by this movie. I am now just seeing clips of this film for the very first time as an adult in their 20's and I can definitely see why this would scar children.
Now what does this remind me of... Oh, yes. David and Goliath - the classic confrontation. Only in this case...David is overmatched. That is until David decided to use his hidden drill arm to tear out Goliath's evil robotic heart and chuck him into space. Now that's upholding the honor of the old outfit.
Whoever designed the robots for the movie must have been a time traveler... Imagine that thing coming down the corridor... just silently hovering towards you...
Maximilian is the ultimate symbol of evil, it proves that Dr. Reinhardt was an evil scientist obsessed with the Black 🕳️ Hole. It was poetic justice that he was imprisoned in Maximilian from all eternity just like he enslaved his crew as mindfulness zombie robots. As Vincent said " The bigger they are,the harder they fall". 👹👾🚀🛸🤖😮
Excelente y oscura película, este filme se parece más a la literatura de ciencia ficción "dura" tipo Philip K. Dick o Frederik Pohl que Star Wars u otros filmes similares de la época.
OK so for all the Maximilian fans out there. Go look at the Robot Computer Deep Thought from Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, the TV version which came out in 1981. I think they were fans of ole Maxy.
