Hi,
Here is another model company history from Maxsmodels. This time covering Estes, which made actual flying rockets.
Even to someone who knows nothing about model rocketry, like me, this is a great item. A model rocket designer named Orville Carlisle teamed up with a White Sands Missile Range safety officer named G. Harry Stine to produce model rockets.
Vern and Gleda Estes were brought in to manufacture the rocket engines. Later they produced complete rockets.. Vern Estes had a background in fireworks, as his parents were fireworks wholesalers, so the move in to model rockets was hardly a giant leap.
Their product range included the Cineroc, equipped with an 8 mm movie camera.
Anyone got an Estes rocket?
Paul Adams from New Zealand
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