FoxTrot by Bill Amend for June 23, 2024

what a nice morning to have a disaster

That will come in handy.

Will it fly or catch fire first, I wonder?

G, those engines aren’t going to don’t much

Cool that the wife is the physician. Though in my observation, ER docs are most often young and male.

Must be a slow ER day.

Careful, you might lose an eye.

If I recall, Marcus’ mother is an ER nurse.

What could go wrong? It is not like their father is lighting the BBQ

Houston, we’re going to have a problem.

Nice to see that Estes is still in business despite the confluence of over-protective parents and tort lawyers. Model rockets sent a lot of good engineers into the space program!

What could possibly go wrong?

Today’s missing classic is gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2003/06/29

Bet they have fewer delays than Starliner.

We can only pray they don’t have enough rocket fuel…

Buncha rocket scientists.

Hey, at least you know what their going be when they grow up!

E.R. doctors don’t work on commission!

Phew. Good thing this is just a comic!

Ok, that made me laugh out loud. Good one, Bill!!!

so… the neighbor is drumming up business?

As Gary Larson might say, trouble brewing.

Remember, these two are super nerds. “TAKE COVER!”

Famous last words…“watch this!”

Judging by the fact that Marcus has three engines in his hands, I suspect they intend to use multiple engines, though I don’t believe that is probably enough.

I would also suspect that the fin area is not sufficient to stabilize that rocket.

ER physicians don’t need more business. Morticians, on the other hand….

Seems legit, hee hee hee…

Denver Metro area, Mid 1960’s, pal and I went into our toy store / rocket supplier and met a rep from F.S.I. (Flight Systems Incorporated) who gave us some of their engines. Designed to fit Estes rockets, they were at least half again as powerful and worked great, not unlike overclocking a CPU in my later years. Yeah, lost a couple rockets because they went out of sight before the chute deployed! Sooooo worth it though.

Don’t blast off, guys. Just. Don’t.

I used to work the safety department at a solid fuel rocket facility. They’re doing it wrong.

All part of the Full Employment Act.

No good will come of this.

Looks like his wife is going to be busy very soon….

I wonder if Wernher von Braun started out like this?