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shrox 03-27-2016 12:08 PM

I've got dozens.

shrox 03-28-2016 01:35 AM

Check out page 26 and 27...

http://www.questaerospace.com/instr...010_catalog.pdf

ghrocketman 03-28-2016 07:09 AM

This thread sounds great.
I would like to see an example of the "Black Hole Cygnus Probe Ship" kit that got produced, but had to be destroyed due to some movie executive clown revoking an approved design AFTER production.
My understanding is that a few escaped destruction....
Estes should have sued over that one and cut all future ties with Disney.

dlazarus6660 03-28-2016 10:04 AM

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I still want the F-117 Stealth Nighthawk like they advertised in the July/August 1996 Sport Rocketry

Initiator001 03-28-2016 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by turbofireball
Here is the brochure for the Estes Laser Launch Controller:


Thanks for posting this Craig! :D
Your filing/archive system is more organized than mine. :rolleyes:

THIS is exactly the sort of thing I wanted to see happen.
Sharing of information about these products.

Jerry Irvine 03-28-2016 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by turbofireball
Here is the brochure for the Estes Laser Launch Controller:

Estes said "fumes". :D

blackshire 03-28-2016 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by shrox
Those might hold a record for the most-advertised model rocket products that were never released...

blackshire 03-28-2016 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dlazarus6660
I still want the F-117 Stealth Nighthawk like they advertised in the July/August 1996 Sport Rocketry
I don't recall who makes/made it, but I've seen (in an R/C magazine--it might have been "Flying Models") a small, electric-powered EP foam F-117 model, which is/was small enough to be flown as a boost-glider.

blackshire 03-28-2016 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Initiator001
...One idea was to make the launching of a model rocket more involving. This lead to the idea of having a speaking/talking launch controller. A synthesized voice would sound a countdown and upon reaching zero the rocket would launch...
I second George's suggestion--a YouTube demo video of your Laser Launch Controller would be very interesting! Also, speaking of talking launch controllers (no pun intended):

One that would enable the owner to record his or her own countdown (or maybe audio of Jack King counting down a Gemini or Apollo launch) would be interesting. It could also be used to record countdowns in other languages, which would be of interest, including to teachers. For example, a launch of a scale Kappa-7 model could be counted down using audio recorded from a Japanese sounding rocket firing in a YouTube video..."Ju, ku, hachi, nana, roku, go, yan, san, ni, ichi, zero!" (Also, MPC's Vostok kit contained a countdown card that gave the 5-second countdown in Russian, phonetically written [see: http://www.oldrocketplans.com/mpc/m...0/mpc3-0700.pdf ].)

dlazarus6660 03-29-2016 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by blackshire
I don't recall who makes/made it, but I've seen (in an R/C magazine--it might have been "Flying Models") a small, electric-powered EP foam F-117 model, which is/was small enough to be flown as a boost-glider.


Was this plane in the R/C mag what Estes based their F-117 model on?

I'll have to look for this article. Thanks.


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