TV Reporter Coverage

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So today, our local TV station had a story about an area elementary school visiting the junior college to learn about flight and rockets. Here's the link to the story.


Unfortunately, the news anchor doesn't know what a "D-12-DASH-5" engine is, and considering how she slaughtered it on the air when she read it, nobody else will know what it is either.

I contacted them and told them that was a part-number they were attempting to read on the air. "Well, that's just what the kid told me," was the reply. I suggested that they change the wording to just call it either an "Estes Rockets D motor" or "a black powder rocket motor."

We'll see what they do for the 11 o'clock newscast...

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