Jeff Curtis's PageAKA: Jcurtis55 Location: Plainfield Indiana Club Memberships: NAR,A.M.O.R.E.A.,ROCI Favorite Rockets: North Coast Big Brute Biography: Twice a BAR. Flew rockets a lot in the late 60's and early 70's. Had a resurgence in the mid-90's, culminating in competing in NARAM 38 at Evansville and obtained a level one certification. Now it's 2019 and I have the bug again, Will work towards reobtaining level 1 certification. Member of the AMOREA section in Indianapolis and look forward to NARAM at Muncie Indiana.
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2024-10-27Aerospace Specialty Products Aerobee 100 Junior (Kit) Review Aerospace Specialty Products Aerobee 100 Junior The Aerobee 100, or Aerobee Junior, was first flown early in 1958. This vehicle was designed by Aerojet General to be an inexpensive rocket to fly payloads of 50 - 100 pounds up to 90 miles. Most of the 20 produced used a solid-fuel booster, but two ... [More]
2024-10-20New Way Quickblade  Flight Fantastic straight flight. Recovered well on an 18" parachute. Missed a tree by about 20'. - E12-4 - Ft. Harrison - Indy [More]
Estes Star Trooper BT-70  Flight Great flight. Chute deployed just after Apogee. Chute and shock cord are a twisted mess but no damage on landing. Forgot the altimeter so did not get the actual height but close to estimated height. - Quest E35-5 - Ft. Harrison - Indy [More]
Estes USS Pleiades  Flight Slight windcock but still an excellent flight, I forgot to put in dog bark, so tit was a parawad recovery. Just missed the trees to the south of the field. The sustainer motor was about half out of the sustainer and it landed on pavement, but the motor took the brunt of that and the fins were ... [More]
PML IO  Flight Flight started off unstable but settled down as the propellant burned off. By then it was going about 30 degrees from horizontal. Long walk to retrieve it. I need to check the center of gravity with the motor loaded. - F52-5 - Ft. Harrison - Indy [More]
Estes Pro Series II Mammoth  Flight Great straight flight on the way up. But the chute hung up on the Pro Series II shock cord mount. Came in ballistic and crumbled the tube. Can probably repair it and will replace the shcok cord with Kevlar. - F23-7 - Ft. Harrison - Indy [More]
Estes Explorer  Flight Not a very stable flight but generally upwards. Cracked a fin but will repair. - B4-4 - Ft. Harrison - Indy [More]
2024-10-19Rocketerium Maxtermind is a Winner (Kit) Review Rocketerium Maxtermind is a Winner Rocketarium is known for their mid-power scale kits but this is one of their sport models with split fins. Rocketarium has great components and this kit is no exception. Construction was straight forward. I started with the motor mount I notched the forward ... [More]
2024-10-12Estes Solar Flare  Flight Windcocked pretty badly, but still a good flight. With the weight I added to nose to balance it, I was concerned if the A10 could handle it, but no problem at all. forgot to tape the nose cone so now I need another nose cone. - C6-0+A10-3 - Muncie AMA Field [More]
Rocketarium Maxtermind  Flight I was tired and didn't want a long recovery walk, so the C11 was perfect. Excellent flight. - C11-3 - Muncie AMA Field [More]
Estes Taser Twin  Flight This was a good motor combination for this rocket. Just a slight arc to the flight but pretty good for a 2-stage rocket. - Estes A8-0+A8-5 - Muncie AMA Field [More]
Mercury 3" School Rocket  Flight Great flight going up but the ejection charge never fired. To make matter worse, it came in ballistic on pavement. Destroyed a fair amount of the body tube but I think I can repair it. Shoved the 24/40 RMS case a bit into the motor mount and took some effort to extract it. - e28-6 - Muncie AMA ... [More]
2024-08-04Thoy Ruff OpenRocket Design [More]
2024-07-07Estes Pulsar (Kit) Review Estes Pulsar This is a 13mm minimum diameter rocket. I discovered this rocket when I set a goal of building all the rockets in the 1989 Estes Catalog. While not officially part of the Mini Brute series several rockets in the 1989 catalog fit perfectly with the other Mini Brutes. The Pulsar is one ... [More]
2024-05-09Estes Impulse OpenRocket Design [More]
2024-01-06Estes Pro Series II Panavia (clone) (Kit) Review Estes Pro Series II Panavia (clone) The Panavia was a kit that was available briefly via the Estes web site. It was composed of left over parts from other Pro Series II kits. The Panavia used the same fins as the Argent. The Estes kits are almost never seen, but clone kits are available from Bad ... [More]
2023-10-22New Way Squareros (Kit) Review New Way Squareros A relatively new addition to the New Way group of square rockets. They may be square but they fly great. The standard finish makes a great looking pseudo-missile rocket. New Way doesn't give construction ratings but I would say this is a 1 and would make a good first kit. As is ... [More]
2020-07-27Estes Starbird (Kit)  Review
I'm always keeping an eye on eBay for out-of-production kits. About a year ago I spotted an Estes Starbird kit. It had been opened, which must have hurt interest as I was the only bidder. All parts were accounted for and I was happy for my good fortune. While essentially a ... [More]
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