The DARS Fall Classic X
Classic All Stars
November 15,
2014 Frisco, Texas
The Fall
Classic is The Dallas Area Rocket Society’s annual contest that is part air
show, museum visit, and science lesson all rolled into one! The contests are simple and fun... The
rockets are classic and cool... Did we
mention that there are prizes?
This years
theme event gives back to all those competitors that have competed over the
past 10 years of The Fall Classic and made it the event that it is today. This years event saves you the build time by
allowing you to bring back your previous winners and let them all compete head
to head in a Classic All Star Death Match. Who will reign supreme for the decade? Only time will tell...
If you haven’t
competed before, fear not! There are plenty
of opportunities to get your Classic on in the Classic Classic and Classic
Upscale events. All the details for
each event can be found in the overviews below and in the guidelines
document.
All of the
fun can be found just off Preston Road, just down Pather Creek, on November 15 from
10am to 4pm. If you are new to the
event, please take a look around and be sure to check out the articles and
pictures from past events at the bottom of the page.
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News
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T-Shirts – Pricing for this
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need orders (and preferably payment) by no later than November 1. Let me know how many and what size by using
this link.
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This
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This
Year’s Event Line Up
(for all event details, please see the
guidelines/rules document below)
Classic All Stars Death Match 
To compete in this category, you must have competed and
placed in the top 3 of any category in any Fall Classic event since 2005
(includes NSL 2006). Get those rockets
out of the trophy case and back out on the field in Frisco to determine who had
the best rocket for the decade.
The Classic Classic
Rockets
qualify for this category if the original design of this rocket was introduced
in the 60s, 70s, or 80s. This category
is open to originals, clones, and re-issue versions of the rockets from these
eras. Ninfinger.org can be an invaluable
resource here, as they have list of all Estes and Centuri rockets made, as well
as many of the catalogs they appeared in.
Rockets are judged by the public, so sometimes it pays to match the
original, and sometimes not. Bonus
points apply to this category for providing year of introduction documentation,
including old catalogs. Flight points
also apply.
Classic
Upscale
Kit based or scratch built models of classic rocket models that
are scaled up or scaled down. Always
hard fought, and generally the category that generates the Best in Show winner.
Best in Show
This award goes to the rocket judged best in show by the
voting public. All rockets in all
categories are eligible to win best in show.
Young Rocketeers Prize Drawings
Once again this year we will be holding drawings for the
young rocketeers for some great prizes.
Rocketeers 14 and under are eligible.
You must be present to win.
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What’s
a Classic?
Much of this
is in the eye of the beholder. Generally
Classic rockets are considered to be those designs that appeared early in the
hobby when everything was new and anything was possible. That certainly includes the 60’s when Vern
Estes, G. Harry Stine, Lee Piester, and others created kits, motors, and
components to build safe and reliable hobby rockets. It includes the 70’s, since that is the
decade where the competition between Estes and Centuri was the fiercest and
other constructors began come on line.
We include the 80’s in our competition as there were still many great
designs that appeared in that decade that would be a shame not to
represent.
These Classic
designs continue to be popular with the old timers in the hobby that grew up
with them, as well as those that came into the hobby beyond these decades. The evidence for this shows up with events
like Estes re-release of Classics like the Orbital Transport, Red Max, Scissor
Wing Transport, Interceptor, and the Classic Series. It is also shown by manufacturers like Sirrius Rocketry, Balsa
Machining Service, Morerockets.com and others that
continue to fill the demand for these classic kits and parts. The fact that the Big Bertha has been made continuously
since at least 1965 (the shape appeared as the Ranger in 1962) probably says it
all.
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Helpful
Links
Guidelines/Rules for
all the events Guidelines (If you are going to compete, please read this)
Map and directions
to the site Frisco Field
This
year’s store flyer
Tips for building
your own Classic Cloning the
Classics by our departed friend James Gartrell
Three Classic
must-have sites Ninfinger.org JimZ’s
Rocket Plans Ye Olde Rocket
Plans
The Hall of Fame
winners of past events The
Hall of Fame
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Past
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