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El Maximo
August 1st 07, 06:43 PM
Big Bertha is a rocket designed and sold by Estes. I had one when I was a
kid. The thing was damn near indestructible.

Stop spewing your drivel and belittling the name of a fine flying machine.

Jon Kraus
August 2nd 07, 04:44 PM
I had one too... They were made by Estes I think, and were one of a very
few rockets (at the time) that used the massive "D" size engines.... Man
those were the days... Jon

El Maximo wrote:
> Big Bertha is a rocket designed and sold by Estes. I had one when I was a
> kid. The thing was damn near indestructible.
>
> Stop spewing your drivel and belittling the name of a fine flying machine.
>
>

Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe
August 3rd 07, 11:16 PM
"El Maximo" > wrote in message
...
> Big Bertha is a rocket designed and sold by Estes. I had one when I was a
> kid. The thing was damn near indestructible.
>

Big Bertha was (at the time) the worlds biggest gun (WW-I).

http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/bigbertha.htm

The Estes Big Bertha was a single engine version of the Astron Ranger...

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