I love making finds like this. I have a box that contained a Christmas gift I got back in 1980 when I was working for a small commuter airline. It had the usual Hickory Farms assortment, which I remember very little about, but I remember that the box was unusually sturdy and I took mine and a couple of discarded ones home. Not long after we got married I bought and tried to build an Estes Little Joe in what could have been my first BAR moment, but we had just bought a house and that was going to be my project for a few years. The Little Joe went from the dining room table to the top of the china cabinet, then disappeared. I didn't think much about it until 2001 when I got back into the hobby mostly for good. Several years later it turned up in one of my Hickory Farms box, and someday I'll put it together. Tonight I was cleaning and rearranging stuff in my room and found the box again. The Little Joe was still there, but there was also an Estes BLU-97B Cluster Bomb. Several years ago I happened upon one in a clearance section at our local Meijer and picked it up for $.80. That happened to be around the time we moved and the kit disappeared. I looked for it a couple of times, but I had started thinking that I'd imagined it. The box also contained a started Estes Hornet and a stray Alpha, so in keeping with my current mindset to build everything I've neglected over the past few years I just got four new projects on my build table. I'm going to put the box back and see if anything else shows up in it. I'm sure I had a Centuri Mini Dactyl at some point. Maybe there's hope.

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: StickerShock Vader Max

Restorations: Estes Jayhawk

In paint: Estes Air Commander, F-22 Air Superiority Fighter. Long Tom, Solar Warrior Semroc Cyber III, Excalibur, Firefly

Ready to fly: Estes Warp II, TLP Exocet MM: 40

I hope there wasn't any Hickory Farms stuff left in there.

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Living life on the edge...launching C's on a B field.

I have a Centuri Mini-Dactyl I am going to give away free to someone on YORF who is also willing to build and test fly a U.S. Rockets Manta Ray kit (Concept series).

Jerry

Joe from RI here Jerry. Many months ago I ordered a Manta Ray off your website and was told is was not available

We just completed a batch this week and your order will ship shortly. Thanks for asking. You could say yes to my offer and get the Mini-Dactyl, skip billing for your order, and get free shipping. Let me know by email.

My goal is to improve the instructions based on end user field tests.

Jerry

Nice offer, Jerry...

Hey, what ever happened to my Manta Ray order?

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948

Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Super X-Ray
In the Paint Shop: Farside-X, Tiger Shark
Last Completed: Estes V-2 (w/ scale enhancements)

Hey Bill,
I misplaced a timing light in the early 70s and have given up on what I must have done with it. Could you please check in your stored boxes?

Thanks, and no real hurry ... After 40-some years, a few more is fine.

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948

Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Super X-Ray
In the Paint Shop: Farside-X, Tiger Shark
Last Completed: Estes V-2 (w/ scale enhancements)

No, the original batch was post-war, so I ate it as a college graduation celebration. Best part was the "pear wine". All it needed was a ghetto alley and a paper bag. Guessing it wasn't actually Hickory Farms, but an off brand.

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: StickerShock Vader Max

Restorations: Estes Jayhawk

In paint: Estes Air Commander, F-22 Air Superiority Fighter. Long Tom, Solar Warrior Semroc Cyber III, Excalibur, Firefly

Ready to fly: Estes Warp II, TLP Exocet MM: 40

Please restate by email to assure.

I haven't received his email yet.

Hickory Farms, I love it! I used to enjoy all that stuff with fruit cake.

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If it flies, I can crash it!