On 27 May 2002 at 14:21, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > I did rocketry as a kid, but I had the Tim Allenish problem of > compulsively putting the biggest possible motors in my models. Dad > got tired of driving me all over town to find where the things landed. > > Marvin Long > Austin, Texas > > I did some as well, but I definitely never considered naming any > household pets "Payload" :-)
Ha! I was in a rocketry club at Uni for a few years. We nicknamed out creation "nova". Bad name, it blew up during testing. *sigh* Turns out the fuel supplied was NOT as-advertised. Most things, it wouldn't have mattered. For us, it went boom. Andy Dawn Falcon
