Absolutely not. These are handy sets to get you started without the hassle.
However you can of course browse our huge range of rocket kits to pick something else if you prefer.

This article details everything you need to piece together your own setup and get started.

Our ready to fly starter sets need nothing else and come with everything you need. You may want to buy an extra pack of motors and some more recovery wadding if you want to do plenty of flights. 

Our construction sets come with all you need to fly, however, you may need some construction supplies such as Glue, masking tape, sand paper, a pencil, ruler and scissors. These are not included in the kits as a lot of people will already have these items. If needed we do have a construction set which includes much of the needed items to build. Construction supplies set A.

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Our starter sets mostly come with either A8-3 or B4-4 motors as standard. The first letter represents the total impulse of the motor, and each letter you go up doubles the total impulse. So a B motor is twice the power of an A motor and a C motor would be 4 times the power of an A motor.
The second number is the average thrust in Newtons and the last number is the delay before the ejection charge goes off to release the parachute. 

As a beginner which motor size you go with from A, B or C depends on the space you have available to launch in. If you have a decent space then the B kits will be great, otherwise go safe with the A motors.

You can of course buy more motors at larger sizes to fly your rocket on later to really shoot for the stars!

Most companies don't include the rocket motors, recovery wadding, or batteries. All our sets (unless you go to the without motors category!) come with everything included. So you should get better value from our sets as a result as these items do need to be bought in order to fly.