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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If you are NOT FLYING LOW in the left lane, you need to GET THE #$&@ OUT of it !

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask, you probably aren't !

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: Estes Low Boom SST, Semroc Laser X, Semroc S.P.E.V

Rediscovered: Roto-Rocket Star Scan, Semroc SLS Laser X

In paint: Centuri Stellar Hercules, Estes Monarch, Estes Nike Apache, Quest Intruder, Semroc Egg Crate, Semroc Recruiter, Semroc Thunder Chief

Body shop: Estes Jayhawk

Ready to fly: Estes Astron Sky Hook, Estes Nova Scout Ship, FSI Dart, Rokitflite USS Odyssey, 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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I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Estes Low Boom SST, Semroc Laser X, Semroc S.P.E.V

Rediscovered: Roto-Rocket Star Scan, Semroc SLS Laser X

In paint: Centuri Stellar Hercules, Estes Monarch, Estes Nike Apache, Quest Intruder, Semroc Egg Crate, Semroc Recruiter, Semroc Thunder Chief

Body shop: Estes Jayhawk

Ready to fly: Estes Astron Sky Hook, Estes Nova Scout Ship, FSI Dart, Rokitflite USS Odyssey, 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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