I never got the full 110 cartridge full of pictures. As the article implies, any model rocket flight had a decent probability of either catastrophic failure, or being impossible to retrieve. Get 6 or 7 flights on a cartridge, the temptation to develop it was too much.

In the late 90s I finally saw some model rocket-based videos, made flying camcorders or TV transmitters on high power model rockets.

Today drones have made DIY aerial photography much less difficult, but I definitely wanted to fly cameras in my youth.

First time launching it up, it caught a big breeze, drifted west, never to be seen again.

But what I REALLY remember is learning that H class motors existed and became obsessed with finding one but the internet wasn't a thing yet so it was impossible

(several times more powerful than E class)

fun list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_rocket_motor_classificat...

MITS was an acronym: "Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems". Ed Roberts and Forrest Mims made electronics kits for model rockets.

As a 1970s kid, I built Estes rockets, but I never did anything fancy. You'd spend a week or two of free time, building the kit and painting it. Then you'd blow it up on the launch pad, or launch it into the wild blue and never see it again. Or spend all your birthday money on a Star Wars X-Wing fighter, launch it, and have it nose-dive into the dirt about ten feet away.

Come to think of it, model rocketry was exactly like real rocketry.

Forrest Mims enriched my life in other ways, with his patient lab manuals for the Radio Shack electronics kits.

Some enterprising person makes a machined an aluminium Minox film cartridge, which is expensive, but solves the problem of the originals being incredibly fragile. It doesn't take many retail rolls to justify the cost though.

https://juliantanase.com/about-minox-film-cassettes-old-and-...

Here's a 110 slitter: insert https://www.camerhack.it/product/110-film-cutter/

even camroc was like $5

Everybody knew big money was better spent on D engines.