Thread: Estes the dude?
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Old 01-04-2009, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark II
Just wondering how Estes came up with the name for that model...

I have never seen one, except in pictures in the web. When it is under thrust, does it fly like more like a rocket or more like a blimp?

I believe that The Dude was the only model rocket ever produced that came with instructions stating that the launch pad consisted of a rod stuck in the ground.

Mark \\.


The dang thing flies just fine. Looks like a rocket going up and changes into a skinny blimp as it comes down. It needs plenty of room however cause it goes wherever it wants to on the way down, just like most blimps do in the wind.

Did it gets it name because someone at Estes saw it for the first time and asked the designer

" DUDE, are you really going to fly that" LOL
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