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A Fish Named Wallyum 05-01-2018 11:13 PM

Saturday, April 28, 2018 - WSR cornfield launch
 
http://wallyum.blogspot.com/2018/05...work-again.html

ghrocketman 05-02-2018 12:21 AM

Wow !
That's a lot of flights in one day.
Not a single E9 explosion either.

A Fish Named Wallyum 05-02-2018 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Wow !
That's a lot of flights in one day.
Not a single E9 explosion either.

C'mon, man. I tried. :chuckle:
Everyone was disappointed. It's kind of a tradition at this point.

ghrocketman 05-02-2018 08:46 AM

Maybe I'm just lucky, and it's been about 4 years since flying one, but out of several dozen E9's I have never had a single cato.
I never even had a cato with the OLD mid-90's Estes E15's and those were notorious for that.

erik442 05-06-2018 05:51 PM

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Here's my best E-9 cato.

Newbomb Turk 05-06-2018 08:12 PM

Man, what an amazing photo of what looked to be a very nice rocket at one time.

Personally, I'd never had a single cato, ever, until a couple of years ago an E9 blew the fins off of and the internals out of my D-Region Tomahawk. Estes went their typical beyond A plus service when I notified them. That's why I often buy rockets directly from them when I could get them cheaper elsewhere.

A Fish Named Wallyum 05-07-2018 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by erik442
Here's my best E-9 cato.

:eek: :cool: I've managed a few of them over the years.
The RDC Starflite, FSI Viking V and FSI Dart. All clones. All except the Dart eventually flew again.

tbzep 05-07-2018 10:49 AM

Even without FSI motors, the FSI rockets wanted to fly apart! :cool:

astronwolf 05-07-2018 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tbzep
Even without FSI motors, the FSI rockets wanted to fly apart! :cool:

Or make the motors inside them blow up... :cool:

ghrocketman 05-07-2018 11:33 PM

Bill-
Those are some incredible E9 cato pics.
If you told me those were from FSI E-kaboom-60's, I would DEFINITELY believe it !


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