When I was a kid, I was into model rockets - at times, heavily.  After college - and a few years of something I sometimes jokingly refer to as "life" - I suddenly got the blast-off bug again.  Having my own kid seems to have fed this bug.  So I got back into them - model rockets, not bugs.  Only problem was, in those years of my hobby hiatus, the prices went up. 

 

Now, being the frugal sort of person I am (meaning, I don't usually have a lot of extra dough to blow), I just couldn't see paying those profferred prices for my preferred propulsive profession, so I said to myself, "Self, there ain't no reason in the world you can't make your own rockets.  They're just mostly paper, right?  And I suspect if you put your mind and soul into it long enough, you can find some of that somewhere."

 

I decided that this was good advice, and promptly set about designing and building my own model rockets.  The first Freedom Rocket I designed was built from ordinary copier paper, modeling clay, and your basic band of rubber.  Glued it together, taped an engine into its posterior portion, and off we went!

 

Flew like a dream, it did.

 

So, I designed more.  The end results were nearly always great, and always inexpensive.  And, after weeding or working out the less successful designs, they are still  some of the most inexpensive model rockets I've found. 

 

You can see them for yourself, download some designs, perhaps purchase a kit, over at my original site.  Direct your browser toward http://FreedomRockets.home.comcast.net and get ready for the highest flying paper you've ever seen!