I wonder, how could we turn that into a sport?

Back in fifth grade or so, a buddy and I use to be into
model rockets. Well one day, while searching my older
brother's room for his playboys, we found instead a
great big box of cherry bombs. And with great delight
we stole a big handful of them. Then built a bunch of
rocket/bombs by simply gluing fins and a launch tube
directly to the Estes rocket motor and taping the cherry
bomb to the top. And let the ejection charge light the fuse.

We soon realized what fun it would be for us to go to the
opposite sides of the field and see who could come closest
to hitting the other with our little rocket bombs. It was
a blast!

By the time our parents were alerted, we were getting the
range down to about fifty feet or so, enough to make it
exciting. I wonder, how could we turn that into a sport?

"jonathan" <H... at (no spam) away.net> writes:
 I wonder, how could we turn that into a sport?

I dunno, but I may have found you a sponsor:

http://www.aopanet.org/

I'm not sure how many NAR rules you're violating here. Beyond that, you may
have been violating one or more laws...

File this one under stupid things that almost got you killed as a kid and
don't mention it again.

Jeff
--
"Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National
Lampoon

"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeif... at (no spam) cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message

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Trollin' trollin' trollin'

More like reminiscing, didn't everyone like blowing things up
when they were kids?

--
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously. (Benjamin Franklin)

David Spain <nos... at (no spam) 127.0.0.1> wrote:
"jonathan" <H... at (no spam) away.net> writes:
I wonder, how could we turn that into a sport?
I dunno, but I may have found you a sponsor:

http://www.aopanet.org/

Wear Kevlar clothing and a full helmet ?

Trollin' trollin' trollin'

--
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously. (Benjamin Franklin)

"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer at (no spam) cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
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Trollin' trollin' trollin'


More like reminiscing, didn't everyone like blowing things up
when they were kids?

--

Wear Kevlar clothing and a full helmet ?

Wear Kevlar clothing and a full helmet ?

I never did shoot one at anyone or anything, but I have to 'fess up to putting
a explosive impact-fused warhead on a model rocket to try out the detonation
system for bombs to be carried on a large RC aircraft at a fly-in.
...worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, the actual bombs had such a good aerodynamic form that they
would sail hundreds of feet forward from the drop point, and were almost
impossible to accurately aim at a target on the ground.
Really needed a RC dive bomber for this concept to work, although I did get
production cost down to around twenty-five cents per bomb circa 1976.

Unfortunately, the actual bombs had such a good aerodynamic form that
they would sail hundreds of feet forward from the drop point, and were
almost impossible to accurately aim at a target on the ground.

I can't get my wife to attend airshows because she's convinced she'll get
killed and now I've got to make sure she never reads this or it will be
curtains for RC fly-ins as well. (Not that she'd *voluntarily* want to
go to an RC fly-in anyway)...