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06-29-2019 12:37 AM |
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Originally Posted by BEC
I got a query from a friend a few days ago asking help with identifying a model. The picture was on eBay with a Designer's Special....but clearly this is a set of kit instructions. The thing is, we can't quite figure out what kit it is. Anybody know?
Here's a crop of the image:
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Here is JimZ's click-able DOM plans list (see: http://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/eirp.htm ), although it doesn't list a "Quazar" (besides the--correctly-spelled--Estes Citation Quasar kit, Centuri also offered a Quasar kit, which was a three-finned "Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon"-era looking science fiction model: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/72cen026.html ). I also looked on EMRR, which includes reviews of models built from the old Estes "Model Rocket News" plans, and it listed nothing for "Quazar" ("Quasar" brought up several entries, although none is the one you seek: https://www.rocketreviews.com/index...s&search=Quasar ), and:
However, *this* http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/77est058.html picture, from page 59 of the 1977 Estes Catalog, shows a rocket that looks rather like the Quazar (it has forward-swept fins). And just for completeness' sake (seeing that the Quazar is/was an Estes plan), the Centuri "public plans" (not kit plans, but plans submitted by individuals) were included in their catalogs and the catalogs' article inserts: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/rockets.html . I'm sorry that I wasn't able to be of more help, but I was at least able to eliminate what and where it *wasn't*, which will hopefully narrow the search.
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