I don’t think a C-engine will fit in the Mosquito. Its diameter is greater than the rocket’s body tube. The Big Bertha would not accept a D-engine in its engine mount, but its body tube is big enough to accept a D-mount.
Why wait? 
I remember the Trident, but I never had one. In the mid-to-late-'70s, which was my heyday of rocketry, I was busy with the Sprints. Looking at the photo, the Trident seems an easy kit to replicate.
Wait a tick… Where’s the recovery system? If it’s in the rear pod, the 'chute may be fouled in the body tubes. If it’s in the front pod, how is it ejected? They wouldn’t do something funky like have holes in the tubes to take the gasses forward, would they?
I painted my mosquitos blaze orange (hunters orange) to make 'em easier to find. I had a bunch of rockets through the years, everything from the beginner ready to fly kits to the ones where I spent weeks getting them just right. My favorite one that I built but never flew was a SR-71 Blackbird. That was one awesome looking model rocket. I think I got it at the Air & Space museum when I was a kid (Still my favorite Smithsonian). I noticed they sell the starter kits at Walmart now, maybe I’ll pick one up and introduce my daughters to the facinating world of controlled explosions. In fact, maybe my local hobby shop will have that SR-71 rocket that I liked so bad.
That’s exactly what they did. 
You can even get plans if you plug Estes Trident in Google’s image search.
Huh! Thanks for the information. I’m a bit surprised they went that route, but after building the pivot mechanism in the Scissor Wing Transport and seeing that you have to build the camera in the AstroCam 110 I guess I shouldn’t be.
I just found that you can buy a Trident clone at Pimp Daddy Rocketry.
They also have the Gemini Titan, USS Andromeda, Alien Explorer, and Orbital Transport. The Mars Snooper is ‘coming soon’.
hello, glad you found PDR! Anyone looking for some old classic kits is welcome to order from PDR. We try to keep the prices as cheap as possible. Look at some of the going rates on ebay gag We have many many more classic kits on the way and ALOT of site updating to be done. Thanks! Son of PD
Trilaphis: How did you find this forum?
However you did it, I think that you can [sub]Astron Sprint[/sub] get a few ideas [sub]Astron Sprint[/sub] about various models [sub]Astron Sprint[/sub] you might want to release [sub]Astron Sprint[/sub]. Might I suggest the Astron Sprint? 
LoL, hint taken… We have quite a few posts about PDR in random forums. I find them by checking the referrers I like to know where our visitors are coming and leave some info with them.
heh… I’m posting again to let you know I discussed it with the boss and the Astron Sprint will be released as soon as we get the decals worked out. (very soon) The Snooper is well on its way also. Keep in touch! [Removed link - SkipMagic]
I also built and launched a Scissor Wing Transport for my 9th grade science project. It decided it wanted to be a cruise missle instead when the wings slid open right after leaving the launch pad, and made then went back towards the school only to be intercepted by a snack bar on the other side of the baseball field.
About 7 years later, my roommate at the time (damn, still 20 years ago) started to talk about being nearly killed in junior high by a rocket launched by some idiot that flew sideways instead of up. If it wasn’t for the snackbar and baseball backstop (he was sitting in the stands watching a science class launching rockets after school), he would have been impaled. “DUDE, THAT WAS ME WHO LAUNCHED THAT ROCKET!” <10 minutes of laughing and remeniscing those 10 seconds of terror.> Ahhhhh, memories.
I’ve also built and flown dozens of rockets with a friend over 7 or 8 years, including the Orbital Transport, lots of Javelins, Mosquitos, Cherokee, Goblin, etc. And then my friend told me about Flight Systems Inc. out of Illinois (I think). They had larger engines and bigger and meaner rockets…so we scrounged some money together and got this triple stage F-engine rocket that claimed to go about 4500 feet in altitude!
And it did. Flawlessly, the stages fired, lifting the rocket to incredible heights with beautiful blue-grey exhaust leaving a trail to follow ever higher! Awesome!
And we saw the chute open with a big puff of talcum powder for the signal…about 4000 feet up…awesome!
And it drifted…drifted…drifted…drifted…drifted…out of sight…bummer.
Ah, but that was so AWESOME!
Dudes,
Don’t just talk about old rocket memories. Dig out those old kits, buy some clone kits, or just build your own clones. But get out there and launch 'em. Make future memories. Those of you with kids, take them with you to launches (always launch safe and observe NAR safety rules). Get the kids interested in rocketry. It’s always been a very educational sport/hobby. Thanks. Oh and yes The sprint clone is almost done.
Eric
[Removed link - SkipMagic] “PIMP YER ROCKET”
Thanks to PDR for coming in to offer their input.
In other news, I’m watching a show on BIG rockets on The Discovery Channel. I first saw them on a documentary of a rocket fest at Black Rock. Sweet! I’d really, really like to get into that kind of model rocketry! But the TDC documentary showed a launch where they guy’s 'chute failed. They mentioned ‘an $8,000 rocket’. :eek: Erm… That’s 40 hours in a helicopter… and you all know where my priorities lie! I guess I’d better stick to the A-, B-, C-, D-engine jobs.
Oh, look over there! There’s an F-engine rocket for only 300 clams…
I remember that one. What was it called?
My little brother (9 years younger) had a rocketry phase, and we’d drive out to Killbuck Park to send up a few. On a good day, we wouldn’t wreck any, and even get them all back.
Toward the end of that, I figured out I could glue a rolled sheet of paper around a lower stage motor (that spewed fire forward at the last to light the next stage) and glue a cherry bomb on the other end of the rolled tube. Four cardboard fins, a straw for the guide rod, and Weapons Of Mass Amusement! With the guide rod at a 45 degree angle, we damn near put a cherry bomb down the neighbors’ chimney. :eek: That was the end of that.
Thank you, Johnny L.A., for bringing back some memories. The Mosquito ! The AstroCam 110 !
I hadn’t thought about those joyful filler/balsa/paint days for decades.
We’re all twelve, reading this thread. And happier for it.
A little off topic, but does anybody remember those water-pressure rockets? Hours of good cheap ballistic fun, those were. I don’t think they are sold any more.
Oh, they still make those water rockets Brain Wreck. Right now they should be hitting a Big Lots or Dollar Store near you. (Plus several toy stores, Targets and Wall-Marts…)
They are still around, just “seasonal”.
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I used to have a Bat (with the crepe-paper ribbon for windy weather) and one that looked like something out of Flash Gordon - had to paint it silver and put “rivets” all over it… can’t remember the name of it, but I was so proud, I never launched it!