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

On the build floor: Estes PemTech Kraken, Semroc S.P.E.V

Rediscovered: Semroc Laser X, Semroc SLS Laser X

In paint: Centuri Stellar Hercules, Centuri Zebra II, Estes Alpha, Estes Monarch, Semroc Squire

In the body shop: Estes Jayhawk, TLP Perseus

Ready to fly: Estes Astron Farside X, Estes Astron Apogee, FRW Star Jart

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

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Exemptions not regulations ACHIEVED. U.S. Rockets instaship. http://bit.ly/1aca7mA Model rocketry is as safe as safe can be defined in human existence. Bow and pray: GH Stine, Orville, Vern, Lee, Lonnie, Carl, etc. No, really. U.S. Rockets released first moonburner Toy Rockets G30, TRA first certified motor: H, invented LMR, HPR, Firestarter, reloadables 1-90, and now . . . ACHIEVED. LDRS-1 I200!!

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

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Exemptions not regulations ACHIEVED. U.S. Rockets instaship. http://bit.ly/1aca7mA Model rocketry is as safe as safe can be defined in human existence. Bow and pray: GH Stine, Orville, Vern, Lee, Lonnie, Carl, etc. No, really. U.S. Rockets released first moonburner Toy Rockets G30, TRA first certified motor: H, invented LMR, HPR, Firestarter, reloadables 1-90, and now . . . ACHIEVED. LDRS-1 I200!!

Nice offer, Jerry...

Hey, what ever happened to my Manta Ray order?

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948, L2

Projects: Super Sky Hook, Estes Saturn V, Astron Farside-X
Stuck In the Paint Shop: Estes Saturn 1B
Completed!: Painted Prowler! (ditched the pink tube wrap ...)

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, L2

Projects: Super Sky Hook, Estes Saturn V, Astron Farside-X
Stuck In the Paint Shop: Estes Saturn 1B
Completed!: Painted Prowler! (ditched the pink tube wrap ...)

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

On the build floor: Estes PemTech Kraken, Semroc S.P.E.V

Rediscovered: Semroc Laser X, Semroc SLS Laser X

In paint: Centuri Stellar Hercules, Centuri Zebra II, Estes Alpha, Estes Monarch, Semroc Squire

In the body shop: Estes Jayhawk, TLP Perseus

Ready to fly: Estes Astron Farside X, Estes Astron Apogee, FRW Star Jart

Please restate by email to assure.

I haven't received his email yet.

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Exemptions not regulations ACHIEVED. U.S. Rockets instaship. http://bit.ly/1aca7mA Model rocketry is as safe as safe can be defined in human existence. Bow and pray: GH Stine, Orville, Vern, Lee, Lonnie, Carl, etc. No, really. U.S. Rockets released first moonburner Toy Rockets G30, TRA first certified motor: H, invented LMR, HPR, Firestarter, reloadables 1-90, and now . . . ACHIEVED. LDRS-1 I200!!

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!