FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 28, 2013

I don’t wanna know what Jason did to make the cops take away the “Jason-V.”

Where’s the rest of VI ?

Where’s “Jason v. Freddie?” :)

Reminds me of my early teens, launching Estes models. Remember watching one of my favorite rockets parachuting down over the trees, the wind taking it way over the woods, never to be seen again.

Lost some of my best rockets because of the stupid wind.

I always loved to fly them and thinking that maybe one day I would put one in orbit :).

It was the late sixties and everything revolved around the Space Age.

The Jason VI is the best. What did the Special Weapons And Tactical do to a ten year old?

What happened to V did it end up in space?

Looks like IV blasted off in doors from under a house plant.

I bet that the Jason-II was subject to Paige’s wrath.

has anyone been to a shuttle launch at the cape, or an apollo launch? heard those are exciting, feel the roar of the rockets even from miles away, etc…

I wonder if Jason has signed Paige up for the one way trip to Mars yet

I lived on a farm so I had over a square mile of open area to land in, of course corn fields are almost as bad as trees. The only bad launch I had was the Estes’s Shuttle, which I launched once. It rose about 3 feet high and then went horizontal and flew through a fence. I gather from what I have seen on the internet since that that was rather the standard flight characteristics of that model.

I wonder what went wrong with the Jason III for it’s parachute to deploy out the side like that. Nose cone on too tight or something?

With rocketry, I went through various stages.

The S.W.A.T. team wanted to buy it.

This reminds me of a very Jason Fox thing my father did as a kid. His dad brought him home some metal tubing from the Airforce base were he served. My dad then stuffed a large Estes rocket into and set it off. The tube went up, then sideways straight at my dad and chased him. I remember a FoxTrot where that actually happened to Jason.

Shades of October Sky!My kids and I launched rockets too, we would tie a knot in the parachute on windy days so they wouldn’t go too far afield.

What’s the goo coming out of Jason-III?

Nice Death Star blanket.

Parachutes? We never used no stinkin’ parachutes! Back in the ’60s we always stuffed the top end of our rockets with flash powder that we bought mail-order from ads in the back of “Popular Science” magazine. Much more fun, and even way back then we caught the attention of the local fuzz. The chase further enhanced the experience.

My brother used to play with rockets like this. The electronic ignition was too ‘sissified’ for him so he would just light a fuse then run like hell. It was great fun.

Jason should’ve given up after the first rocket failed, but he didn’t.

I still remember in when my husband (in grad school) was on a team that had to estimate how high their rocket would go and land it back at base. For fun they wanted an army man to parachute, but they were all too big so I found a little toy tank, fashioned a mini paracute out of kleenex, and string, and they inclued it in the weight cacluations. .They landed less than 50 ft off base, by far and away the closest, and not only recovered the tank, but it was in perfect condition. They’d hve won the contest, but the estimated hight was off by too much.

I wanna know the story behind VI. All that’s left is the head..

I’m glad that when I was going up on a farm that I didn’t know about fertilizer/diesel fuel’s properties, as we had large quantities of both in the spring. And I probably would of gotten into trouble with it.

lol the S.W.A.T team that would be awesome. I read these books over 4 years!