My lovely enabler, Melanie

Estes has had two different rocket models called the Falcon. Now, you wouldn't think it would be too hard to come up with a new name, but evidently it was too much of a challenge.
 
The first Falcon was a rocket boost glider as seen in the image below. I had one of them back in the 1970s when I was a kid living in Holly Hill Harbor, in Mayo, MD. Being both an avid rocketeer and aeromodeler, I really liked the Falcon because it combined the launch properties of a rocket with the recovery properties of a glider. I don't recall the cause of its demise. I lost an awful lot of rockets to the trees behind our house, so that was probably its final resting place.

Building Instructions
 
Flash forward about 35 years and Estes again produced a Falcon, but this time it was as a standard rocket kit. In an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get both my kids interested in rockets, we built and launched a dozen or so different models. The picture to the right shows Sally launching her Falcon in the field behind our house in Loveland, CO. Her brother, Philip is next to her, and a pathetically stupid neighbor kid is on the right. Sally is grown and married now, but I still have that Falcon in my hobby room.