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March 20-26, 2003
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There's an awe-like wonder that rocket-building hobbyists display for their creations: Long, metallic, never-more-phallic objects launched into the sky for a few moments of airborne success. Still, the Philadelphia Rocketry Association, while peddling such a simple pastime, manages to reach out to newbies through big-time conventions, like this week's East Coast Hobby Show, which comes to the Fort Washington Expo Center this weekend. The upside: At a convention such as this, you can hope to pick up the very best in supplies, watch demonstrations and receive clinical advice in workshops on assembling your take-home toy. The downside? Your beautifully crafted missiles may not launch for a while. With their reliance on explosives and with trajectories that lead them into the way of flight paths, the geeky pastime may prove the first casualty of homeland security. (The jury -- or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives -- is still out on the issue.) In the meantime, with 200 hobby exhibitors on view, the sport takes its place this weekend alongside such other quirky overhangs of childhood as model aircraft, model trains and face painting (modeled by obliging children).
East Coast Hobby Show, Sat., March 22, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., March 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; $4-$9, Fort Washington Expo Center, 1100 Virginia Dr., Fort Washington, 800-252-4757, www.hobbyshow.com.
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