Sentimental Journey

[Bruce Appelbaum]

     Are you kidding?  Rockets were dangerous!  Just ask my mother.  
     Besides, setting off rockets in the Bronx could break something (most 
     likely our heads if the cops caught us -- these were the days when 
     kids were fair game for NY's finest to bully -- I couldn't start to 
     count how many stickball bats were confiscated and thrown down sewers 
     without due process by the boys in blue).


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Subject: Re: Sentimental Journey
Author:  "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com> at Internet
Date:    3/31/97 10:40 AM


> From: Joe Varo <vjvaro at erie.net>
> [snip]
> Surprised to see that there are no model rocketry enthusiasts here. 
> [snip]
     
All ya had to do was ask....I was into such rockets.  I remember the 
semi-scenic walks to and from the suburban launch areas (a.k.a. empty 
schoolyards) at least as much as the rocket-building and rocket-launching. 
And then there was the challenge of rocket-retrieval--trying to relocate the 
darn things after shooting them so high that they vanished from sight. (My 
buddies and I favored tiny, cheap models for quickest building and ascent.)  
Of course, with all the aeronautical experimentation going on in Our Town 
(home of the lunar module), it's quite likely that at least some of our four 
x 1/2 inch models were intercepted and captured mid-flight, brought to a 
faraway lab for dissection and analysis.  We kids only managed to take down 
a half-dozen or so of Their craft.
     
davemarc