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Oh yeah! Rocketry with Uncle Werner. It was on channel 9 after Captain Kangaroo.
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"Rocketry with Uncle Werner"?
****! All our stupid UHF station gave us was Gary Gnu and "The Great Space Coaster". Later, EV |
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The "cable" went to a large antenna which could only pick up two stations: the PBS affiliate in Louisville, and the local Kentucky Educational Television network (KET) affiliate in my home town, which pretty much broadcasted the same exact programming as PBS, at the same exact time Anyway, as is so often the case, when our society is catalyzed to do something, by dangoes, we do it, but while we're at it, we do all kinds of other stuff, too. Those TVs turned out to be about worthless. NFW could they turn us first graders into rocket scientists or anything else much useful. We got about 30 minutes of TV time a week, and the programming not only failed to teach anything beneficial, but did even worse and taught misinformation. This was 1967, and I was in first grade. We got some programs about the space program...probably produced in about 1960. Anyway, I remember seeing a program telling us about the moon rocket. The Nova rocket. It was 5 times more powerful than the Saturn V, and it would be taking us to the moon. Well, by 1967, even us hillbilly Kentuckians knew the Saturn V was the moon vehicle. Thousands of dollars spent to wire the building so that us 6yo rednecks could learn old, stale and incorrect info. I seem to recall those TV's spent the next 11 years holding down the floor in the corner of our classrooms. They quickly proved to be of little use in the classrooms. Seems we spent the money on the TV's but nobody bothered to produce the requisite programming to go with. Your tax dollars at work... Doug |
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We got to watch Hank Aaron hit #714 off of Jack Billingham on opening day, 1974. Other than that, I don't remember any in-the-classroom television at all.
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These are two Project Bumblebee missiles that never went to production. Triton and Rigel IIRC. I wish I could find some dimensioned drawings for both of these though I think I have a drawing of a Rigel wind tunnel model. :-/
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All we got were old filmstrips. Uphill, both ways, in the snow, etc.
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New kit release - Red River Rocketry Stratos
Well, now that the dust from NSL has settled, I'd like to announce that I've released my newest kit - Stratos. Please take a look:
http://www.redriverrocketry.com/rockets.php John |
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Hey guys,
I just wanted to say that I flew the Starliner at NSL in VERY high winds with no problem. It had a very very slight wobble during boost, but no more than a lot of the "normal" rockets (probably due to the wind). The problem came when I was heading home with my teenage daughter in the back seat. She was sleeping and tossing and turning, and I think she nailed the Starliner. It has a pretty good crimp in the tube now (AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!). I guess I'll help my wife start her Starliner now...
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