WAEC Inventory

WAEC Rockets
Space Racer
SAM-66
Sunbird II
Pi
Sprint
Leviathan
Space Racer II
Arcturus Mk. 1
Roswell or Bust!
Brinley
Short March
Discovery
XW-1
Apollo-LES
Sprint II
Lone Star
Mercury-Redstone
Shenzhou
Saturn 1B
Saturn V
Gemini-Titan II
Juno I
Chrysler Building

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This is the complete listing of model rockets I owned 1997-2004. They are listed in the order in which I acquired them.
 
Number:
Manufacturer
or Designer:
Name:
Number 
of Flights:
Notes:
1. Estes Skywinder 2 my very first rocket
2. Estes Hijax 15 most successful rocket
3. Estes Gnome 2
4. Estes Big Bertha 4
5. Estes Mongoose 4 lost July 6, 1998
6. Custom Sunracer 1 name used as one of my aliases for a few years
7. Estes Wizard 0 unflown
8. Estes ARV Condor - stricken from inventory, January 30, 2002
9. Estes America ? 1
10. Wilhelm Impulse - stricken from inventory, May 7, 2002
11. Wilhelm Imitation V-2 0 untested prototype
12. Estes Mk-109 Stingray 3 used for science fair project, January 1999
13. Estes Star Wars X-Wing 1 slightly modified
14. Centuri Two-Bitz 5 clone of vintage Centuri rocket
15. WAEC Pi 2 prototype
16. Estes E2X Series Space Shuttle 4
17. Estes Tomcat 0 incomplete
18. Estes Space Shuttle Columbia 1 scale model of first flight, STS-1, on April 12, 1981
19. Estes / WAEC Alpha FS 1 modified Estes Alpha
20. Estes Pulsar ? 1
21. Estes Zinger 1
22. Estes Mini-Bomarc 1 clone of vintage Estes rocket
23. Custom Galileo 1
24. Estes Prime Number Explorer 0 unflown
25. Estes F-22 Raptor (with booster) 1
26. WAEC SAM-66 10 prototype
27. WAEC Space Racer 3 prototype, lost May 7, 2000
28. Estes Torque 1
29. Estes Fury 0 unflown
30. Estes Comanche-3 0 unflown
31. WAEC Sunbird II 2 prototype, lost September 26, 2001
32. Estes Astrocam 110 2
33. Estes SR-71 Blackbird 0 unflown
34. WAEC Sprint 4 prototype, lost August 3, 2000
35. Estes Mini-Patriot ? restored
36. WAEC Apollo-LES 1 prototype
37. Estes Goliath 0 unflown
38. WAEC Space Racer II 3 prototype
39. WAEC X-15 - stricken from inventory, November 21, 2001
40. WAEC Leviathan 3 prototype
41. Estes Orbital Transport 1 clone of vintage Estes rocket
42. WAEC Roswell or Bust! 6 prototype
43. Estes Scrambler ?
44. Peter Alway V-2 #2 4
from plans in Scale Bash, by Peter Alway
45. ? Birdie ?
46. Estes Festus 2 formerly Estes Ninja, then Silver
47. Estes Sliver 0 unflown
48. Estes Maverick 0 unflown
49. Estes Harpoon 0 unflown
50. Quest Micro Maxx SR-71 Blackbird 4
51. Quest Micro Maxx Tomahawk 1 undergoing repairs and modifications
52. Peter Alway Vostok 1
from plans
53. WAEC Arcturus Mk. 1 1 prototype
54. Quest Sandia Tomahawk 1
55. Aerospace Specialty
Products
Micro WAC Corporal 2
56. WAEC Discovery 2 prototype
57. Estes Mean Machine 0 unflown
58. Estes Scissor-Wing Transport ? authentic, undergoing resotration
59.
Balkins / WAEC
?
rear section only
60. Estes Astron X-Ray ? flew a grasshopper, long ago
61. Estes (most
likely)
(unidentified 1st stage
of a white rocket, with yellow
fins)
?
62. WAEC Brinley 3 prototype
63. Quest Nike-Smoke 1
64. WAEC Shenzhou 1
prototype
65. WAEC "Short March" 1 prototype
66. Estes Alpha III 3 built with rocket club at Fairview High School
67. WAEC XW-1 2 prototype
68. WAEC Sprint II 3 prototype
69. WAEC Lone Star 4 prototype
70. Estes / Apogee Components Little Joe II 1 psuedo-clone of classic Estes scale rocket, with Apogee components Apollo-LES
71. Delta 7 / WAEC Mercury Redstone 2 built from a paper model
72.
WAEC
Juno I
2
flying scale model of first American satellite launcher; untested prototype
73.
Estes
Festus 7
2
conversion of an Estes kit into the rocketship from The Worst Sci-Fi Trilogy Ever!
74.
AMT/WAEC
Saturn 1B
1
plastic model conversion of 1/200 kit
75.
WAEC
Chrysler Building
1
flying model of famous New York skyscraper; prototype
76.
Quest
X-30 Aerospace Plane
0
unflown
77.
Space Launch Report / WAEC
Gemini-Titan II
1
prototype
78.
WAEC
Saturn V
1
prototype

Fleet Statistics

Number of rockets flown on recorded flights: 55
Number of recorded flights: 135
Percentage flown on recorded flights: 71%
Number of rockets lost: 4
Number of original designs flown: 23
Number of original designs lost: 3
Number of WAEC designs abandoned: 1
Rocket with most flights on record: Hijax (15)
WAEC design with most flights on record: SAM-66 (10)
All materials herein copyright 1998-2008 by Willy Logan
willy@wilhelm-aerospace.org