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Originally Posted by CSchmidt
I had some when I ws growing up in the 60's / 70's. We would get the Estes newsletters with notes from Vern ... way cool.
When my kids were little I went on round 2. Finally got the Big Bertha I wanted as a kid 8-). We had a blast launching them. I may have to drag them back out!
10 years ago I was at a hobby store focused on finding some replacement engines for the Estes rockets. I was looking down into a display case. From my peripheral vision a noticed some larger cylindrical things. Across all of the back wall were these 4-8' tall liquid fuel rockets! Now that is a major cool toy.
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I had Big Bertha as well...black with yellow and white trim. She was fun until I had a faulty engine and blew the bottom off of her. She flew at least 60 times before that happened.
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