Huge Estes rocket builder. We still do it. As a matter of fact, we've been so busy, we hadn't since the spring and my youngest son saw some of our rockets in the garage while we were putting up Christmas lights this weekend and asked if he could go through the box and sort out what we need.
Our biggest problem has been losing them in the city when there is any wind. My brother and I were working on creating a small chip you could attach to them and track the rockets with an app. He's the real engineer in the family and has manufacturing contacts in Asia. There are some products out there, but they are expensive. We got busy and scrapped it.
On another note, Neil DeGrasse-Tyson was in town this week filming an interview and my oldest got to go with the wife. He's this generation's spokesman for science. Amazing speaker. The promo is because they are re-releasing the original 13 episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos this year.
Now when it cames to homemade explosives, nothing beat a cannon made of metal tennis ball cans, gasoline and tennis balls! I am amazed we still have all of our limbs and never burned down anyone's house.
