Originally Posted by Chas Russell

Folks,

I have been flying model rockets since 1967 and am not a BAR. My NAR number is 9790, which may not impress a lot of people, but I like to think it shows some experience.
I have always heard from day one "cato" as a catastrophic failure. No messing with acronyms or making up explainations. Simply put, it blowed up...it blowed up real good.

Anyone can take a few letters and figure out a reasonable explaination. But cato is really just a short way of saying it didn't work.

Let us proceed to discuss really important stuff.

Chas
Charles Has Acute Sense