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@@bluehappyscrap yes

neck pickup Quantum (H) neck pickupPassive/Ceramic middle pickup Quantum (S) middle pickupPassive/Alnico bridge pickup Quantum (H) bridge pickupPassive/Ceramic. Didn't like them at all. They were quite weak sounding. I've been using Dimarzio super distortions for over 40 years, and these Quantum pups were not very good sounding.

Got it on my first try.

Eastern Pennsylvania.

Glad you approve! It was my first outing with my new camera (just got it a few hours earlier). It was a bit difficult operating it in the dark... LOL

It was an incredible time. I sat silently for 2 hours to be at the right spot, at the right time. I used to do 2-3 winter hikes there per year, and this was the last time I was able to do so, before the stroke.

What are you flashing back to? lol

@stratoblaster3236 you should do a live performance at the bowling alley. I'll get Rick to play drums and Dave can be vocalist.

@@stratoblaster3236 I'm flashing back to when I thought the earth was flat and the moon landing was fake lol

Thanks Lucas!

Thanks!

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Thanks for letting me know. Means much to me!

get Lucas to get in the posting...lol

I also saw in on the 14th.

Thanks!

I was lucky to get it all in the frame.

Visually, it came down nearly perfectly for video.

@@stratoblaster3236 Goodness, it sure did! Do you suppose this is how the Apollo missions were faked? 8)

@@professor_stevens6784 I'm sure you could get those people to believe just about everything. The sad part is, people under 55 weren't around to see it actually happen.

It only took me 20 years to get the nerve to build it. Better late, than never.

D12-3

Yes... It always took me long to get the fins right, but I always had to get them right.

It was!

Absolutely!

I haven't launched anything in about 25 years... not many places left around here to do so.

@@stratoblaster3236 yes.. As an adult I got to do several launches in the 80's, but basically due to the trend to risk aversion, parks in my county outlawed all kinds of fun stuff including anything to do with rockets. Can't even fly an RC airplane, have to go to the one and only club field for that.

@@stephentoons Most of the open areas around me started going away in the 80's too.

Good old days!

I still have a lot of mine on a shelf.

D12-3

We had D 12 7's. I launched the " Alpha " rocket.. it just kept going, it flew away and we never found it.

@@frankslevett3436 When I built my Saturn V, I had two choices for the engine set up. Either one D12-3, or 3 C6-5s. I never trusted multi-engine ignitions.

@@frankslevett3436 I had a few I never was able to find... one of them was a 2 stage that I customized into a 3 stage... stage 1, D12-0... stage 2, D12-0... stage 3, D12-7... was only able to find the first two stages... last I could see of the third stage... it was drifting in the winds over a river, that was over half a mile away.

They can be very high fliers... I once converted a two stage to a three stage... found the first two stages, but the third stage drifted far across a river that was over 1500m away from the launch site. All in all, it was still worth it... just because it worked.

Yeah... I started in 1970, but by the time I launched the Saturn V, they move the batteries to the controller.

How were they after they figured out what you were doing?

They called back to the cop shop for clarification and someone figured out what we were doing was ok.😅

@@troybartlett4584 I thought it would probably be that outcome, but you never know.

I graduated high school in 1980... we are pretty much in the same era.

I graduated in '81. Went to basic 2 weeks later.

Absolutely! Everything was so new.

It was a great time.

That's cool... the first time I saw an Estes Saturn V was when I was in 1970(8 years old). We did a class project of building an Alpha, and the guy that was leading the project, brought in his new Saturn V that he just finished.

It was one I always wanted, and the last one I ever bought... still have it, as a desktop model.

Lots of fun, and also lots of learning. Most kids that I grew up with loved to be around them, but not many had them.

If I remember correctly, we had a rocket day when I was in Jr. Highschool in the mid 70s... our school had roughly 250 students, and probably 25 launched rockets that day.

I've got a 6 and an 8-year-old here, I'll have to think about this! I'll do anything to get them away from the tablets and computers!

@@johnnyfreedom3437 I started when I was 8, but we didn't have the issues of today back in 1970.

I never had any issues like that. I always did a few extra things to make all the fins. I tapered them all, and did extra work at the connection spots. It added a couple days to the build time, but I thought it was worth it.

I've never had that happen to me, but I did see it happen to others.

my first back in mid 60's was the intro model . . . astro? astron? looked like a V2. NO parachute, rather a wire stop hanging from the body. the engine had a nose charge that would kick it back into the cradle, upsetting the balance, and letting it flutter down safely. except if you got the engine too snug, and it didn't pop out and the thing just nose-dived straight down like a torpedo. wrinkled the nose pretty good.

@@hildebrand142 The good old days!

Nice

@@stratoblaster3236 Big Bertha was my favorite. Put army guys with their own parachute in rocket. When nosecone blew off, the army guy would too!

I wonder if the weight balance may have been a little off.

@@stratoblaster3236 Thanks for your reply. While I agree with your weight distribution discussion. I also think that the tail assembly working in a vertical attitude also contributed to the crash. Gee, maybe if Pete built a B-52 as a launch vehicle...?😂

@@josephvarchola2122 Yeah... could have been that too.

Thanks.

I built my first one in 1970, as an 8 year old. The 60s were great.

We would go to the field behind the Jr. High School. Sometimes, the payloads would end up on the roof. We'd boost one of us up and run across the flat roof to retrieve. Try that now. Launched an M-80 once configured so that the ejection charge lit the fuse. Bits of balsa and cardboard fluttered to the ground. Designed and built our own fins from balsa bought from the local hardware store. Built a protractor on a piece of wood with a nut on a string so we could calculate the height of travel. Once we glued a nose cone and fins directly onto an engine to see how high we could send it. All around 1967 or 68.

@@zekragash4294 I rarely hear of anybody launching these days around here. Used to be surrounded by corn fields... almost all gone now.

​@stratoblaster3236 The Jr. High School we went to was surrounded by soy bean fields. Haven't been there since 1988. They tell me it's all grown up there. Houses and condos, I'm sure. The boys in my neighborhood rocketed for about 3 summers. Also built balsa and tissue glider planes, did some taxidermy from a kit purchased from the back of a Boy's Life magazine, kid up the street had a dark room in his basement, did some B&W photography, and started tying flies to fly fish the local farm ponds. Childhood was idyllic in retrospect.

@@zekragash4294 I think many places have changed quite a bit... it used to be semi-rural here... 25% of the fields have been replaced by housing. Most happened in the early 2000s before the housing bubble crash.

It was fun, as long as it didn't get carried far away.