A fond memory of long ago :)

Can you give me this ono

Great windage compensation

I currently have one but need a video on how to assemble it. Anyone know where I can find one?

I use to launch this in the mid-1970s with my dad. When I see this I think of him.

Just found your channel and enjoyed the launches. Not sure where your launching, but school looks familiar 🤫 Watching your other vids and they are older , do recommend gluing fins to a lightly sanded body tube without paint for better adhesion. Pre painting fins always beneficial. Was eyeing that “Blue” rocket and think I will get it. Great for my STEM events. Hope ya got the kits off the school roof. 😏

Have the whole slip? Shooting for the 11s in my car and hoping I can lay down a run like yours

Schools around where I live won't let you shoot model rockets off, I have no place to shoot them, parks won't let me, literally, no place allows people to shoot rockets off and the model rocket clubs, not one near me for over 100 miles. I miss launching these!

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Built the Big Bertha 50 years ago. Huge adventure, many amazing flights until we flew in too much wind. Lost 'er forever. LOL

Why so many years ago? Not doing anything now?

That decal is as crooked as a politician 😂

I don't know the rocket or the engine, but we blew one of these things off in the park in 1980 & it flew sideways & hit a kid in the head after blowing off the nosecone parachute; we were like "wtf, did that just happen?" It knocked him over & he was ok, but he probably still has a minor dent in his skull to this day.

Thanks for posting . Painting mine tomorrow.

C motor is bigger? Been a few years

LOL

The "BABY BERTHA" is THE BEST rocket for your first rocket! It also is THE BEST rocket to modify also! 👍

Mine had had a D motor

How do you find land to launch 😂

Welcome back!

Fantastic! Great video!!!

I just picked up a Baby Bertha. Thanks for the inspiration to get it to the pad.

My dad bought big Bertha for my brother and I in 1989. My brother still has that cool ol rocket.

I wish I had days where the wind was like this, lowest I can remember for like the past year was 6mph

Very cool. fwiw you can almost double the height by shaping the fins and seal/sand (repeat multiple times) to a gloss finish. Loved your kid and dog going after the rocket :)

I have the Quest Aerospace version of this called "Big Betty." Although it looks identical, the tube diameter is about 1mm smaller and it uses three fins instead of the four fins the Estes kit uses. I love flying it and it always gets flown at the club rocket launch.

When I assemble my rockets, I substitute a nylon parachute for the plastic one supplied, I have less problems with the parachute not opening up, also I attach the parachute to the rocket with a fishing snap swivel. This keeps it from getting all twisted up, and if it becomes tangled, you can unsnap it and quickly untangle it.

When I bought the Big Bertha, the rocket had a balsa wood nose cone. How times have changed.

Great fun, huh?! I had Big Bertha back in the 1960s. It was my favorite-especially on a C6-5. Great times! I remember in 8th grade math, when we were being introduced to quadratic equations, trying to figure out altitudes and flight times, only to be confounded by the delay charge and parachute drag. I guess our parents’ underlying hope for model rocketry (“Learn some math!”) was realized....

Cool! I remember having Estes catalogs when I was a kid and drooling over them, but my parents never bought me one. I had a couple of cousins who got a bunch of them, and I was jealous, never even got to see them launch one. I remember Big Bertha in the catalog, that must have been way back in the early 70's!

Good times

I had a Big Bertha (among several other rockets my brother and I owned) that came down wrong 50 years ago. The nose cone and fins where damaged but was salvaged and a paper towel dowel replaced the body. We always used C6-5's and had a crowd of neighborhood kids chasing down our rockets. Wind or no wind.

I like the voice command retrieval system.

My Bertha was put to the test. A C with the longest ignition charge. C 7 ? She opened so close to ground yet survived.

They still make Big Bertha, and not already pre-made? Am surprised! Last time we went for some new rockets, there were only a couple preassembled rockets available, lame small ones, single stagers, not even parachute return. Yes, aware that BB is single stage, at least it's bigger and does the parachute. The more recent owners of Estes suck. Nothing like launching the Enterprise and Klingon Estes models in the 70's.

Just a bit of a note for people who are starting out building rockets, glue doesn't stick to paint! So if you paint the parts then assemble, you HAVE to sand off the paint where the glue is applied. I recommend building, THEN painting.

I build a Big Bertha forever ago when I was 10. At 55 or five years ago I bought another Big Bertha kit and put her together. The funny part is, I painted her the same as the one in this video. I was getting my grandson into model rockets like I was when I was a kid. We have build and flown all the way up to F engine class rockets now... but, Big Bertha started it all. Thank you for the video... what a great hobby!

Nice great for kid's

I had this rocket when I was about 10 years old as well; thanks for bringing back this childhood memory.

I remember launching my Big Bertha on a day that was way too windy. Set the launch rod at about 45deg into the wind and fired. She gained about 50' before leveling out like a cruise missile. About 300' downrange, the chute opened and she drifted all the way back to land a couple feet from the pad. This was in about 1985. Elon has finally caught up😉

I got is for 8 dollars from my hobby shop

Great rocket. Super performer.

I have one. I enjoy launching it. It does "weather vane", so it is best flown in no to very low wind conditions for max flight altitude.

I built a Big Bertha from balsa 50 yrs ago! Great to see you are getting your kids involved! Thats what its all about!!!!

My brothers friend launched this Russian looking rocket with a D size engine, unfortunately it went over the freeway and we lost it. I can't believe my friend and I ran across the freeway to look for the rocket, haha.

You should have painted the parachute. Maybe even painted the igniters?

Getting back into Rocket launching.

I love Big Berta on the C6-3 or C6-5.

I had this in 1972. =)

You didn’t show how to put it together