Ditto here, except that I no longer have the model. That was the only "rocket" that I could fly in my yard, with shorty motors.

This is the Birdie kit I would like to find for a realistic price.
Much rarer than the K44.

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I flew one. Once. Found the shuttlecock in the back yard and just happened to have the tube laying around. I didn't bother with anything fancy like centering rings, just glued the tube right to the back of the nose. It flew fine, but the ejection charge was a little robust for an unsupported tube and it never flew again. Now I'm getting the urge......

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I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Aardvark Skywriter

In paint: Centuri Stellar Hercules, Estes Indicator, Long Tom, Luna Bug, Nike Apache, Ricochet, Solar Warrior FRW Star Blazer XL Quest Intruder Red River Stratos, Semroc Cyber III, Excalibur, Lil' Ivan, S.P.E.V.

Ready to fly: Estes Nova Scout Ship Semroc Point

You look a lot younger and skinnier than I remember.

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I was young, but never that skinny.

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NAR 79563

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I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Aardvark Skywriter

In paint: Centuri Stellar Hercules, Estes Indicator, Long Tom, Luna Bug, Nike Apache, Ricochet, Solar Warrior FRW Star Blazer XL Quest Intruder Red River Stratos, Semroc Cyber III, Excalibur, Lil' Ivan, S.P.E.V.

Ready to fly: Estes Nova Scout Ship Semroc Point

Does uncle mike’s rocket shack still carry the West Wayne Rockets Birdie Clone K-44 Kits?

Shorty motor Birdies and Mini Motor Birdies are easy to clone yourself. I buy 6 packs of shuttlecocks at the flea market for a buck.

I ended up with a bunch of plugged 13mm motors in an Ebay lot and that was a good way to use them up. I do like the way an ejection charge sends them flying though.

Real RSL shuttlecocks available here.

Indeed--you can even make your own 18 mm, Series III "Shorty" motors, with 1/2A6-2 motors (and 1/2A6-4s and/or 1/2A6-0s, if you can find any) and a saw... For making a batch of them, I'd get a length of a hardwood 2 x 4 and drill a row of appropriately-deep (and wide) holes in it, then slide the 2.75" motors down into the holes--nozzles-down, of course--and saw off the empty upper 1" of their motor cases. Also:

Having built and flown a few Estes Birdie clones (powered by 13 mm motors), I can vouch for their "fun factor." They flew fine even in windy conditions (they didn't weathercock too much; sorry, I couldn't resist :-) [but it's true]). Even using the cheapest, junkiest, can-packed shuttlecocks, they weren't troubled even by asphalt surfaces (at the Old Tamiami Airport runway in Miami--now used by model airplane fliers--at Tamiami Park, site of the Dade County Youth Fair and Florida International University), bouncing up to thirty feet back into the air after landing on their rubber nose tips.

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