Reviews

• Excelsior Rocketry Goonybird Zero (Plan) By Matthew Bond

  The Goony Bird Zero is one of Excelsior Rocketry's "Goony Retro-Bash" line of decal/plan sets. Fred Talasco at Excelsior has created a line of kit-bashes that are a throwback to the old Estes "Goony Birds". Fred's designs are based on old Estes kits (in this case the Blue Bird Zero) or his original ideas, and they use the Estes Baby Bertha as the starting point. Excelsior rates this kit bash a ...

• Excelsior Rocketry Goonybird Zero (Plan) By Bill Eichelberger

  Anyone who has paged through a 1973-75 Estes catalog has undoubtedly seen and puzzled over the Goonybirds. The Goonybirds were a series of cartoonish, youth-oriented rockets thought by some to be the flying equivalent of the Rat Fink hot rod characters, and thought by others to be proof of someone spiking the Estes water coolers. Economically mini-engine powered and easily built with stick on ...

• Excelsior Rocketry Goonybird Zero (Plan) By Kevin Johnson

  The Goony Bird Zero (GBZ) is part of Excelsior Rocketry's retro bash line of goony kits. It is based around a Baby Bertha kit, using all components except the fins and the decals. When you buy one (or two or three) of the goony's you get a sheet of instructions, templates for cutting new fins, and a sheet of really nice quality decals. There are two fin templates for the GBZ, one for ...

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• Goonybird Zero