Drew Dalgleish wrote:

I used to just glue balsa fins and nose right onto the rocket engine.
I also made a hand held launcher for non-vertical deployment
I Wish I had of thought of using the engine to light firecrackers a
cherry bomb would make a great finish to a flight.

Back when I was a kid, model rocket engines were hard to come by, now
they can be mail ordered. It's the firecrackers that are hard to come
by these days or at least in socialist Oregon.

Tony