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02-10-2021, 04:46 PM
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Well, ask and ye shall receive! Thanks much Chas for that rundown and to Roy for throwing out the info request. Much appreciated!
Earl
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02-10-2021, 08:10 PM
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02-11-2021, 09:33 AM
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Doug Ball, Bill Stine and I all flew together a couple years ago in Phoenix, so I think Doug is still somewhat active in rocketry.
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02-11-2021, 02:18 PM
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Do you remember the Hagedorn part of the B-H Team? He was the person behind those pre-airfoiled styrofoam wings? DB Industries? was that Doug Ball?
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02-11-2021, 02:46 PM
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Years ago I asked Doug about that (DB foam wings) and he said that wasn't him. He told me and I've forgotten, but that conversation must be on the Internet somewhere. Just gotta look for it.
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02-15-2021, 07:06 PM
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Another little tidbit about Bill Stine/Centuri...
I have a letter in my correspondence notebook from Bill Stine dated March 21, 1980. It was in response to a letter to I wrote Centuri inquiring about a possible donation of prize kits for HOTROC 1 regional held by ROMAR in Colorado Springs. Bill signed the letter above the title line of 'Customer Relations'.
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02-16-2021, 02:03 PM
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I met Bill Stine during the fall of 1978. While passing through Phoenix, an old rocketry friend from Buffalo invited me to stay at his place. My friend's housemate was Stine.
My recollection -- perhaps not too accurate after the passage of more than four decades! -- is that Stine was about 20. So I'd say he was born around 1960, plus or minus a year or two.
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02-20-2021, 06:11 AM
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wonder what happened to Bob Hagedorn? As for the first few years he just sold the Styrofoam wings....then later he sold BG kits with the styrofoam wings. since they were good enough friends to be the B-H team, I just assumed that DB meant Doug Ball Industries......I'd like to hear that story......you in contact with Doug Ball by any chance? does he come here at all?
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03-06-2021, 08:36 AM
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So Doug says the “D” in DB stands for Don, who was the owner of the shop where Bob Hagedorn worked. And the “B” stood for Bob. Doug’s only involvement was to use the wings. He said Bob passed away a few years ago. As for Ellie and Connie, he said Ellie has no involvement with rocketry, and that he and Connie teach a rocketry class at her girls camps, but that’s about it.
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03-06-2021, 09:26 AM
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Chas has it basically correct. Connie and I use rocketry at her summer camp for girls in upstate New York. But that is it for rocketry for us. Yes, the commute is long and expensive! Ellie does not fly rockets anymore (and hasn't for a long time). She is a nationally recognized equestrian rider and judge. Sadly, Bob Hagedorn passed way in December of 2014.
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