Friday, April 27, 2018

Hangin' Out With 'Mr. Cineroc' - Part 5 - Herb at NARWIN-1

In a letter dated January 6, 1978, Herb wrote;

"Now on to other things.  I went to NARWIN-1 'Winter Nationals' in Phoenix over Christmas.  They were great and well run.  I met Stine, L. Reese, and many others."

A month later, a letter dated February 6, 1978 arrived in my mailbox with a nice surprise.
Herb had sent along some photos he took at NARWIN-1.

Here are scans of those pictures along with Herb's descriptive texts:

  "An F-100 powered Class 5 altitude of G. Harry Stine, who is seen launching the rocket."

"A blow-through of an Estes D12-7 in a super-roc--show that one to the guys at Estes."

"One of Gary Rosenfield's G-engine rockets he was showing captured at the moment of liftoff.'

There was a fourth photograph enclosed in the letter, but I am unable to locate that one.  The description Herb wrote reads:

"A scale bird which went on to crash into little bits for reasons I do not know."

If there is one of you old timer rocketeers out there who happened to be at NARWIN-1 in December, 1977, and are the owner of such a scale entry that crashed, please enlighten me!