My Big Bertha did too!...................
I wanted the Saturn V but couldn’t afford it, or to feed it those four? C rocket engines.
The ‘Long John’ an Army rocket and V2 were pretty cool.
Then there was the Chinese-Korean hybrid: the chinee ‘Long March’ mated to the Korean Dong Gao: the Long Dong.
I believe that my Big Bertha may still be in low earth orbit....
Ah, the Big Bertha. “Slow, realistic lift-off”, or at least that was what Estes advertised. It never seemed to me like it was much slower than any of the others. At least, it wasn’t as “realistic” as my adolescent imagination was expecting.
My favorite was my Cherokee D. I flew that one many times, including once when a last second wind gust tipped the launchpad toward the neighbor’s roof just as it ignited. That was a nail-biter.
“My Big Bertha did too!...................“
My big Berha flew many missions. Occasionally, the parachute didn’t work. It became a beater, didn’t look that good up close. It had so much glue on and in it it took a C6 to get it to fly 500 feet up!