Odd'l On My Facebook Page!

Look what showed up on my Facebook page!
I was on the Apogee website yesterday to check the kit availability. When I see it is low I make up more kits or make out a parts order.
It's great to see Apogee is promoting the Odd'l Fighter Fleet!

John Thompson's F-104

An email from John - 
I just finished the build and loved it!

Thanks John -
Looks great! Glad the build went well for you - 
It's a great flier, too!

New Odd'l Rockets F-104 Starfighter Kits at NARCON!

The Odd'l Rockets F-104 Starfighter kit made its debut at NARCON!
Here's the first nine kits at the JonRocket booth at NARCON.
Roger and Bracha Smith (JonRocket.com) posted this picture on the NAR Facebook page.

They are also listed now on the Sirius Rocketry website: CLICK HERE
More kits will go to JonRocket.com when they return from NARCON.
Apogee will get their first allotment of F-104 kits sent out on Monday!

Break-Away Clone!

From the N.A.R. Facebook page:

Beth Johnson made a Odd'l Rockets Break-Away clone!
All those launch lugs are going to be fun to line up - 

Nose Cones . . .

How many do ya' need?

Nose cones can be the most expensive part of a kit.
There's 100 here, a good start for the first run of a new product.

Ceramic Blast Deflector History

An interesting Blast! Deflector back story from YORF:

The MPC starter kit pictured earlier featured a unique parabolic blast deflector.  The design made its first appearance as an R&D entry at NARAM 11 submitted by Sven Englund of New Canaan, CT.  

This was the very same Sven Englund who was the winner of the Estes "Launch Pad Sweepstakes" which had a trip to see the Apollo 11 launch with Vern Estes as its grand prize.  Methinks that ol' Sven might have been the object of envy by a few thousand rocketeers over that win!

Only a few months later the April 7, 1970 issue of Model Rocketry magazine would report that MPC had purchased the rights to his deflector design from Sven for the princely sum of $75 dollars.  Here's the story from Ninfinger.org:  Model Rocketry Magazine April, 1970 (http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ModelRocketry/Model_Rocketry_v02n07_04-70.pdf) 

The design is still available today from various model rocketry dealers. (an Odd'l Rockets product!)

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Odd'l Break-Away from Australia!

On TRF, Snrkl posted he was building a BT-60 upscale of the Odd'l Rockets Break-Away. He had some questions and a few emails were exchanged.

Snrkl had two successful flights on August 20 using D12 engines.

To see the TRF posts and story - CLICK HERE
A flight video is on YouTube - CLICK HERE