Vern and Gleda Estes built Super Alphas from Estes Rockets on Sunday 7/24/11, and here they are flyin' them on Monday 7/25/11, at NARAM 53 near Cincinnati, OH. Avast, me proud beauty! Vern and Gleda founded t' company that bears their name in 1958 in Denver, CO, then moved t' Penrose, CO a year or two later. In 1958 Vern devised a machine t' mass produce reliable model rocket motors for another model rocket company, but made so many motors that he had t' start his own business, shiver me timbers, which grew into t' company that is synonymous with t' hobby o' model rocketry. Vern and Gleda sold t' company in 1969, ya bilge rat, continued workin' with it until t' 1980's, but they have remained strong supporters o' t' hobby in general since then.